Visiting Artists and Curators 2008
Gulsen Bal: Xenophobia Redux and other curatorial project
ubermorgen.com (Lizvlx + Hans Bernhard): Artist talk
Gulsen Bal was born in Izmir, Turkey and lives in London and Vienna. In 1997 she graduated from London Guildhall University in the field of time based media. She received an MA in Critical Fine Art from Central Saint Martins College of Art &Design and a PhD in Fine Art under the supervision of Prof. Malcolm Le Grice and Prof. Mark Nash. She is a visual artist, theoretician and works as a researcher discussing the differential structures within the ethico-aesthetic paradigm conceived in representational boundaries. Her practice/research hence has focused upon exploring the notions of the “difference of identity” and “difference,” minority and exilic discourse and border phenomena in trans-local and/or trans-national location within cultural geography. She is currently Director and Head of Development of Projects and Programmes for Openspace, Zentrum für Kunstprojekte, Vienna.
Recently curated and co-participated: Nobodies Story, :/ Seconds, Leeds 2007 | Semionauti II -produced by Border Crossing, Neon Gallery, Bologna 2007 |territories of Duration, Karsi Sanat, Istanbul 2006 | Semionauti I - produced by Border Crossing, Care/of, Fabrica del Vapore, Milan 2006 | Plateaux - out there / aus dort Künstlerhaus MOUSONTURM(Archive), Frankfurt/Main 2005 | where It was, shall I be - wo es war, soll ich werden... , Diyarbakir 2005 | Border Crossing- Tur reTur… , Künsöffering, Oslo 2004 | Different/ciation, MiArt, Milan 2003 | Short & Sharp, Gallery 291, London 2003 | Border Crossing- Here and Somewhere else…, Gallery X, Istanbul 2003 and at the same time has taken part in numerous group exhibitions; Dialogues Méditerranéens, Saint Tropez 2007 | Looking to the Left, Contemporary Incheon Art Museum, Korea 2006 | Include me in/out, International Biennial Arts Festival, San Francisco 2005 | Blueprints, Berliner Kunstsalon, Berlin 2005 | einfache Gleichheit mit sich , prog:ME, 1st Festival of Electronic Media, Rio de Janeiro 2005 | where the streets have no names, MoNA, Third International Video Festival, Detroit 2005 | Balkan Malls, REX Cultural Center, Belgrade, 2004 and Casa Tranzit, Bucharest, 2004 | Screened Out, Liverpool Biennial 2004 - Independents section, Liverpool 2004 | The Self on the Screen, Art Beat: Battiti D'arte Sull'adriatico, Biennale Adriatica di Arti Nuove, San Benedetto del Tronto 2004 | disembodied Voice, Istanbul 2003
Recently published: Settled in Mobility?, Toplumbilim, Istanbul 2007 | When Unavoidable Knocks on the Door, ARTMargins, NY 2007 | Strangers with Angelic Faces, Third Text, London 2007 | What I See in the Mirror, Hillsider, Istanbul 2007 | Uncompromising Hostility, Afterimage, NY 2006|A Piece of Sky Is Missing!, Mute, London 2006 | Global Doubt, /seconds, Leeds 2006 | Mapping the Shifting Borders, Mute, London 2006 | Subjects in space… , ISEA (the inter-Society for the Electronic Arts) Amsterdam 2006 | Imaginary Year - Turkish Cinema: Aesthetics, Culture, History, Chicago 2006 | Open Systems, Sanat Dünyam?z, Istanbul 2005 | Interactive Integrated Media, Sanat Dünyam?z, Istanbul 2005 | Revival of Essential Values, Rh+ Sanat, Istanbul 2005 | Rethinking of Everyday Life: Martha Rosler, Rh+ Sanat, Istanbul 2005 | Developing the Negative?, Sanat Dünyam?z, Istanbul 2005 | I U She together, Sanat Dünyam?z, Istanbul 2005 and numerous Conference & Seminars; The Philosophy of the Overlooked, ICA, London 2006 | The work of Gilles Deleuze, Greenwich University, London 2006 | Modus Operandi, Accademia Brera di Belle Arti, Milan 2006 | A Long Journey Eastward, ICA, London 2005 | Engaging Im-Possible, Central Saint Martins College of Art &Design, London 2005 | Dialogue: a journey towards Space/Place…, Diyarbakir 2005 | Performing ‘Self’ Reflexive Discourse, 1st International Visual Studies Conference - IFEMA, Madrid 2004 | Questioning The Effect of Inversion In The Subject/Object Relations In Art Practice, YKKM, Istanbul 2003| Eyeing the Other, The London Institute, London 2003Membership of Professional Associations and Institutes
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UBERMORGEN.COM is an artist duo created in Vienna, Austria, by Lizvlx and Hans Bernhard, a founder of etoy. 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, pixel-painting, computer installations, net.art, sculpture and digital activism (media hacking) transforms their brand into a hybrid Gesamtkunstwerk. UBERMORGEN.COM’s work is unique not because of what they do but because how, when, where and why they do it. The computer and the network are (ab)used to create art and combine its multiple forms. The permanent amalgamation of fact and fiction points toward an extremely expanded concept of one’s working materials, that for UBERMORGEN.COM also include (international) rights, democracy and global communication (input-feedback loops). “Ubermorgen” is the German word both for “the day after tomorrow” or “super-tomorrow”.
Lizvlx is a Vienna and St. Moritz based artist, designer and technologist, producing both artistic and commercial work for companies, collectors and institutions. Using technology and computers as a medium since 1994, she has exhibited her net.art works in venues like the Ars Electronica (Austria), the Konsthall Malmoe (Sweden), the NTT ICC Museum (Japan), ARCO (Spain) or the Lentos Kunstmuseum (Austria). Lizvlx is a founding member of 194.152.164.137 and UBERMORGEN.COM. She studied fine art and economics in Vienna. Lizvlx is a professional artist and creative thinker, focusing on digital art projects, exhibitions and travelling the world lecturing at conferences or Universities.
Hans Bernhard is a Vienna and St. Moritz based artist working in the fields of digital and fine art. Using technology, computers and the internet as a medium since 1994, he exhibited and performed in venues like the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo (Japan), the Ars Electronica (Austria), the Konsthall Malmoe (Sweden) or the SFMOMA (USA). He is a founding member of the legendary etoy.CORPORATION and of UBERMORGEN.COM. He studied visual communication, digital art, art history and aesthetics in Vienna, San Diego, Pasadena and Wuppertal. Hans is a professional artist and creative thinker, working on art projects, researching digital networks, exhibiting and travelling the world lecturing at conferences and Universities.
www.ubermorgen.com
www.hansbernhard.com
