February 02, 2006
UBERMORGEN.COM
G3 – Bureaucrazy
What does the term "authenticity" amount to in the age of digital replication? In their installation G3-Bureaucrazy the Austrian artists group UBERMORGEN.COM investigates this question. The suggestion of bureaucratic lunacy is meant to be taken completely seriously. With the help of four software generators, including an injunction generator and a bank statement generator, digital documents like bank statements, identity papers and court judgments are produced in personalised form and can be printed out on the spot. By characterising these documents as being no more than ink on paper, UBERMORGEN.COM call into question the arbitrary authority of every bureaucratic system. The installation forms part of the polemical series [F]originals – forged original documents. At Transmediale 06.
Posted by jo at February 2, 2006 03:58 PM
