Google Will Eat Itself

By UBERMORGEN.COM feat. Alessandro Ludovico vs. Paolo Cirio
http://www.gwei.org

"We generate money by serving Google text advertisments on a series of hidden Web-sites. With this money we buy Google shares. We buy Google via their own advertisments! Google eats itself - but in the end we'll own it! By establishing this autocannibalistic model we deconstruct the new global advertisement mechanisms by rendering them into a surreal click-based economic model." - UBERMORGEN.COM feat. Alessandro Ludovico vs. Paolo Cirio

Bios

Alessandro Ludovico
Alessandro Ludovico is a media critic and editor in chief of Neural magazine [http://english.neural.it] from 1993 (Honorary Mention, Net.Vision, Prix Ars Electronica 2004). He has written: 'Virtual Reality Handbook' (1992), 'Internet Underground.Guide' (1995), 'Suoni Futuri Digitali' (Future Digital Sounds, 2000). He's one of the founding contributor of the Nettime community and one of the founders of the 'Mag.Net (European Cultural Publishers)' organization. He writes for various international magazines and he's also an expert in the Runme.org board, a collaborator of the Digitalkraft exhibitions, and has curated different new media art exhibitions. Weekly he conducts 'Neural Station' a radio show on electronic music and digital culture and is part of the n.a.m.e. (normal audio media environment) group. From 2005 he's partner of Ubermorgen's GWEI.org action (Honorary Mention, Net.Vision, Prix Ars Electronica 2005, Rhizome Commission 2005).

Paolo Cirio
Paolo Cirio, aliases bidibid, 1979, lives in Turin, Italy. Paolo Cirio is part of a software-art collective [epidemiC]. As agitprop he organizes illegal events, from net-strikes to art happenings on streets and other various media jammings. He works also in video-art and in street-art. Activist against militarism of NATO, he is editor of a main international web portal about it. He works as web designer and web developer.

UBERMORGEN.COM [A/CH/USA, *1999]
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".
www.ubermorgen.com

Lizvlx [A, *1973]
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.
www.ubermorgen.com

Hans Bernhard (A/CH/USA, *1973)
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.hansbernhard.com
www.ubermorgen.com