hello,

attached some infos on our next Soloshow at Fabio Paris Art Gallery,
with the Online-Installation "Superenhanced Generator" (Release jan
17), the Superenhanced Video, the Superenhanced seal and 3 photo-
series (http://ipnic.org/superenhanced/photos.html)

2 catalogues will be published...

In March 2009, Christoph Merian Verlag (Publisher) will publish:
UBERMORGEN.COM, Media Hacking vs. Conceptual Art
Alessandro Ludovico (Ed.) with contributions by Olia Lialina, Dragan
Espenschied, Florian Cramer, Yukiko Shikata, Cornelia Sollfrank, Inke  
Arns,
Peter Weibel, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Marina Grzinic, Grischinka Teufl,  
Stefan
Nussbaumer, Jacob Lillemose, Nebojsa Milikic, Raffael Doerig, Domenico
Quaranta and 2 Interviews (WMMNA & Neural.it).

in February 2009, FPEditions (www.fpeditions.com) will publish the
monograph UBERMORGEN.COM (edited by Domenico Quaranta, with
contributions by Inke Arns and Jodi.org).

greetz

hans, lizvlx & the girlz
UBERMORGEN.COM


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UBERMORGEN.COM
Superenhanced


OPENING & PERFORMANCE: Saturday, January 17, 2009 at 6.00 PM

 From January 17 to March 7, 2009
3.00 – 7.00 PM, closed on Sunday


Fabio Paris Art Gallery is proud to announce the second solo  
exhibition by the Austrian artist duo UBERMORGEN.COM, presenting the  
world preview of the project “Superenhanced”, which is dedicated to  
the pressing issue of torture. Though torture is banned almost  
everywhere, it has re-emerged under a new set of names with the  
neutral, tidy, functional language of marketing and branding. http:// 
ipnic.org/superenhanced

Kidnapping is now called “extraordinary rendition”, and torture is  
“enhanced interrogation”: “an efficient way to extract valuable  
information from unwilling detainees” that uses so-called “soft”  
techniques such as the Attention Grab (the interrogator forcefully  
grabs the prisoner’s shirt front and shakes them) and the Attention  
Slap (an open-handed slap to the face); the Belly Slap (a hard open- 
handed slap to the abdomen, able to cause pain, but not internal  
injury); this then continues into “harsh techniques” like then Long  
Time Standing, with prisoners forced to stand, handcuffed, for more  
than 40 hours; the Cold Cell, where the prisoner is left to stand  
naked in a cell kept near 10 degrees Celsius; Waterboarding, a  
controlled form of drowning, and Sleep Deprivation, where they are  
not allowed to sleep for several days. These are mostly psychological  
techniques, which do not leave marks on the detainee’s body, and have  
been used for years (since the Reagan administration) in America’s  
Supermax prisons (but also in places like Kandahar, Bagram Airbase  
and Guantanamo Bay) to prepare ‘unlawful enemy combatants’ (including  
numerous children) for interrogation. The final set of methods used  
by authorities are the classic extremely brutal ones: Hanging  
prisoners by their wrists for days, beating prisoners, breaking  
bones, amputation of limbs, starving prisoners and killing prisoners.

UBERMORGEN.COM gets to grips with this sinister subject matter, but  
rather than condemning a human rights outrage that is there for all  
to see, appears to be more interested, on one hand, in exploring the  
hypocrisies of the language that renders it acceptable, and on the  
other the moral position of the spectator when exposed to ambiguous  
questions and disturbing images. The point of departure is the  
Superenhanced Generator, a web project (displayed in installation  
form) that contains a smart interrogation engine, basically capable  
of comprehending the spectator’s responses, and that generates a fake  
legal document (a foriginal), modelled on rendition orders and  
interrogation protocols.
The installation is accompanied by a series of photographic prints  
( http://ipnic.org/superenhanced/photos.html ) and a video which  
adopt the ascetic aesthetic of maximum security prisons representing  
child prisoners undergoing intimidation and torture: the photos are  
staged poses of a reality that no-one wants to believe in – a reality  
that is conveyed to the public eye as a form “collateral damage” in a  
“necessary” fight against terror. The images are nicely lit and  
professionally produced, but they are profoundly unsettling due to  
the truths that lie beneath their patina of glamour.

On the evening of the opening, the installation will be accompanied  
by a performance.

UBERMORGEN.COM (lizvlx & Hans Bernhard, www.ubermorgen.com) is an  
artist duo based in Vienna, Austria. Behind UBERMORGEN.COM we can  
find one of the most unmatchable identities – controversial and  
iconoclast – of the contemporary European techno-fine-art avant- 
garde. Their open circuit of conceptual art, drawing, software art,  
pixelpainting, computer installations, net.art, sculpture and digital  
activism (media hacking) transforms their brand into a hybrid  
Gesamtkunstwerk.

In February 2009, FPEditions (www.fpeditions.com) will publish the  
monograph UBERMORGEN.COM (edited by Domenico Quaranta, with  
contributions by Inke Arns and Jodi.org).

fabioparisartgallery
via Alessandro Monti 13 - 25121 Brescia - tel. 030 3756139 - Skype:  
fabioparisbs
www.fabioparisartgallery.com


Superenhanced is supported by MIGROS kulturprozent










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Hans Bernhard
UBERMORGEN.COM

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