Vote-auction.com was a web-site where American citizens could sell their votes in the presidential elections of 2000. The site was created by student James Baumgartner, who then sold his business to artists of the UBERMORGEN group. They present documents from the trial that ensued following reactions by different district attorneys as their own work.
[V]ote-AuctionUbermorgen (AT)
installation, tactical medium; 2000
Ubermorgen (AT)
lizvlx (AT, b. 1973) and Hans Bernhard (CH/USA, b. 1971) are European artists who work in installation, video, code and performance. They are doing strange things with software & hardware. Their early work is referred to as 'Media Hacking' and 'Online Performance', combining various forms of digital media into artistic action. In 2000, they created Vote-Auction, a vote-selling/buying online platform and were described by CNN as 'maverick Austrian business people'. The New York Times called their 2005 Google Will Eat Itself project simply brilliant. Their main influences are Rammstein, Samantha Fox, Guns N’ Roses & Duran Duran, Pfizer's Olanzapine & Hoffmann's LSD, Lindt's Dark Chocolate & KFC's Coconut Shrimps Deluxe. They have shown their work in major international institutions such as the Centre Pompidou, MoMA, Sydney Biennale, MACBA Barcelona, New Museum New York, SFMoma, ICC Tokyo, Gwangju Biennale and were commissioned by Serpentine Galleries London & Whitney Museum New York.
Contact: hans@ubermorgen.com, liz@ubermorgen.com
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