Short interview with Hans Bernhard
UBERMORGEN.COM
> > What is your background - where you from ?
Swiss-Austrian-North American-Eastern European-Background
> > When do you create ?
During Business hours.
> > who inspires your work ?
Corporate Switzerland, Viennese Actionists and the Dot Com Boom gave us the tools (corporate identity manuals, die Aktion, business plans) to work on a piece of radical corporate software (etoy). My main technique is sampling / collage. Influenced by New York rap music from the 1980s, i learned to agressively copy & paste and to invisibly mix conceptual elements with visuals and philosophy with
code. The myth of the pop-star and the construction of a fascist global uber-corporation was the driving force behind etoy. This fusion of drugs and technology was blended with results of our
analysis of Andy Warhol, Archigram, Futurism, Michael Milken and contemporary boygroups such as The Backstreet Boys.
UBERMORGEN.COM`s work is unique not because of what we do but because how, when and where we do it. The Computer and The Network create our art and combine every aspect of it. UBERMORGEN.COM is metaphysically influenced by Lawrence Weiner and practically enhanced by ever
reinventing Madonna, Jean Tinguely, the Nouveaux Réalistes and by the hardcore Viennese Actionists. The unseizable chronoclogical and squashed spacial circuit of conceptual art, drawing, software art,
painting, sculpture and „Digital Actionism“ (Media Hacking) transformed our brand into one of the uncatchable identities - controversial and iconoclast - of the contemporary European techno- fineart avantgarde.
Artists of relevance:
On Kawara, Joseph Beuys, Mario Merz, Mark Rothko, Richard Serra, Peter Weibel, Andy Warhol, Gunther Brus, Rudolf Schwarzkogler, Jean Tinguely, Lawrence Weiner, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Marcel Duchamp, La Monte Young, Archigram
> > What is art ?
Things that artists do, but... then the problem is, who is an artist and who not. Artists are people producing things and exhibiting them and have texts written about their work and getting paid for the
things and getting funding for their work. Also, frequently works of artists can be found in art collections and museums.
> > Have you ever exhibited in Italy ?
Yes, Fabio Paris Art Gallery, Brescia, Share Festival Turin, Artissima Turin, Arte Fiera Bologna...
> > How do you image your work in a city_space ?
Not at all, i see it in museum space and in galleries and in homes of art collectors.
> > tell me more about your work-
it deals with a Psych|OS.
In October 1994 three student filmmakers disappeared in the woods near Burkittsville, Maryland while shooting a documentary. A year later their footage was found..." "The Blairwitch Project"
In March 2002, ubermorgens Hans Bernhard experienced a manic outbreak in South Africa. He was airlifted to Austria - General Hospital Vienna. Two and a half years later, UBERMORGEN found video footage of his stay at the Mental hospital. They decide to release the material unedited.
"We are the children of the 1980s, We are the first internet-pop-generation.
We grew up with radical Michael Milken [The King of Junk Bonds] and mythical Michael Jackson [The King of Junk Pop].
Hans Bernhard is loaded with 10 years of internet & tech [digital cocaine], underground techno, hardcore drugs and net.art jet set [etoy]. His neuronal networks and brain structures are similar to the global synthetic network he maintained subversive activity within.
And now both Hans Bernhard and The "Network" are infected by this structural disorder.
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Hans Bernhard
UBERMORGEN.COM / etoy.holding
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