[AT+USA] • 1973

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UBERMORGEN.COM has won numerous prizes and awards, and has exhibited worldwide in museums, galleries and festivals such as: the Museum of Modern Art Wien, Ars Electronica (Linz), Museu d`Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Konsthall Malmà¶, Kunsthaus Graz and Hartware Medienkunstverein Dortmund.

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“Psych|OS - ” • 2005

DVD, Installation

Courtesy Fabio Paris Art Gallery, Brescia

In March 2002, Hans Bernhard, “loaded with 10 years of internet & tech [digital cocaine], mass media hacking, underground techno, hardcore [illegal] drugs, rock&roll lifestyle and net.art jet set…”, was admitted to a psychiatric hospital, diagnosed with bipolar affective disorder. The project Psych|OS (2005) explores this experience, and the overlap of the biological and digital spheres which caused it (and which was the cure).

The video Psych|OS features material filmed by the artist in hospital in a state of semi-consciousness, then rediscovered three years later in order to analyse the connection between mental illness and network disease, neuronal systems and operating systems, the human body and technology: the camera takes in bar codes, medicines, screens and IT icons, in a kind of post-digital flanerie.

“Psych|OS - Zyprexa ‘Lilly 1112′” • 2006

Digital print on canvas.

Collezione Marchina, Brescia / Courtesy Fabio Paris Art Gallery, Brescia

The two Zyprexa Lilly works look at the analogies between pixels and molecular structure, focusing on the medicines of our hi-tech society, “bio-chemical ‘agents’ which control the internal information flow”.

“Psych|OS - Zyprexa ‘Lilly 4117′” • 2006

Digital print on canvas.

Private Collection, Brussels / Courtesy Fabio Paris Art Gallery, Brescia

The two Zyprexa Lilly works look at the analogies between pixels and molecular structure, focusing on the medicines of our hi-tech society, “bio-chemical ‘agents’ which control the internal information flow”.

“psychos_hans_02.jpg” • 2003

Lambda print on aluminium.

Private Collection, Brussels / Courtesy Fabio Paris Art Gallery, Brescia

psychos_hans_02.jpg, featuring Bernhard dancing in a digitally remastered nature, reveals the human side of madness, and shows the synthetic nature of our daily dreams.