Hans Bernhard
Hans Bernhard (CH/US) is a media actionist, known for the group ubermorgen.com
Hans Bernhard [foto © Jan Sprij]
Hans Bernhard is a Vienna/St. Moritz based artist whose true madness first surfaced when he started up the internet-underground cult 'etoy' in 1994.
In 1999 he and three other founding members of etoy bought the mother company etoy.holding while investing dot-com money in a Sofia-based software firm (esof ltd).
In the same year, he and lizvlx created uebermorgen.com - a system critical leftover of net.art.
During the web site action 'Vote-Auction' to buy and sell votes during the 2000 U.S. presidential elections, Hans and lizvlx (UBERMORGEN.COM) were sued by 12 U.S. states, investigated by U.S. federal attorney Janet Reno, observed by the FBI, the CIA and the Austrian secret police and put under NSA surveillance.
After that he initiated NAZI~LINE (with Christoph Schlingensief), a neo-nazi re-integration project. Other projects currently getting him into serious trouble with German/Austrian secret services and corporate lawyers include GWEI (Google Will Eat Itself), the Injunction Generator and Amazon Noir.
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