Voteauction
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Vote-Auction.net was a satirical website that during the 2000 U.S. presidential election offered U.S. citizens an anonymous and quick way to sell their vote to the highest bidder. 13 U.S. states issued temporary restraining orders and injunctions, for alleged illegal vote trading and consumer fraud. Over 2,500 news media outlets reported on the project including a 27 Min. CNN "Burden of Proof" special.
(RPI), the website was later sold for an undisclosed sum to Ubermorgen
.com in Austria
. The artist duo consisting of lizvlx (AT) and Hans Bernhard (CH/USA) ran it from August 1 - November 7, 2000, posing as "Eastern European business people". CNN
.com called them "Maverick Austrian Businessmen". Legal precautions against extradiction and rendition
were taken by consulting specialists in different countries and by physically moving on a daily basis. The auctioning web-site was re-designed in September and underwent minor changes over the course of the project. The web-site initial domain voteauction.com (hosted by Domainbank) and the second domain vote-auction.com were disabled by American court orders and without legally served court order by CORENIC in [Geneva], leading to a series of press-releases to communicate the new location, hence generating more publicity for the web-site. The server
-infrastructure was attacked several times and the site had to move to a more secure location.
.com also include (international) rights, democracy and global communication (input-feedback-loops). Vote-Auction was exhibited at the Lentos Kunstmuseum
Linz
(Austria
) 2005, Eyebeam New York, 2010, expo.02 Switzerland, 2002.
", an engine which renders customized court orders on demand.
In 2004 UBERMORGEN.COM released the 2nd part of the "Election Trilogy" named *THE*AGENCY for manual election recount. In 2007 WAHLGELD.COM, a vote-buying and selling platform for the Swiss parliamentary elections was launched. The actual selling and buying of votes was covered by leaking information about the authors (as artists), therefore the election commission, the media and the voters were certain about the non-commercial motivation. Approximately 700 electoral votes were bought for an average of CHF 75.-.
Background
Voteauction was the brainchild of James Baumgartner, at the time a student at RensselaerRensselaer
-Places:*Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, a university in Troy, New York*Rensselaer County, New York, the oldest Rensselaer place name*Rensselaer, Indiana*Rensselaer, Missouri*Rensselaer, New York*Rensselaer Falls, New York*Rensselaerville, New York...
(RPI), the website was later sold for an undisclosed sum to Ubermorgen
Ubermorgen
UBERMORGEN.COM is a swiss-austrian-american artist duo founded in 1995 by lizvlx and Hans Bernhard. They live and work in Vienna, Basel and S-Chanf near St...
.com in Austria
Austria
Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country of roughly 8.4 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the...
. The artist duo consisting of lizvlx (AT) and Hans Bernhard (CH/USA) ran it from August 1 - November 7, 2000, posing as "Eastern European business people". CNN
CNN
Cable News Network is a U.S. cable news channel founded in 1980 by Ted Turner. Upon its launch, CNN was the first channel to provide 24-hour television news coverage, and the first all-news television channel in the United States...
.com called them "Maverick Austrian Businessmen". Legal precautions against extradiction and rendition
Rendition
Rendition may refer to:*Rendition , a legal term meaning "handing over"*Extraordinary rendition by the United States, the abduction and illegal transfer of a person from one nation to another*"Rendition" , an episode of Torchwood...
were taken by consulting specialists in different countries and by physically moving on a daily basis. The auctioning web-site was re-designed in September and underwent minor changes over the course of the project. The web-site initial domain voteauction.com (hosted by Domainbank) and the second domain vote-auction.com were disabled by American court orders and without legally served court order by CORENIC in [Geneva], leading to a series of press-releases to communicate the new location, hence generating more publicity for the web-site. The server
Server (computing)
In the context of client-server architecture, a server is a computer program running to serve the requests of other programs, the "clients". Thus, the "server" performs some computational task on behalf of "clients"...
-infrastructure was attacked several times and the site had to move to a more secure location.
Exhibitions
UBERMORGEN.COM shows all the original documents (approximately 700 kg of complaints, court decisions, injunctions) generated by the proceedings in exhibitions worldwide, and refers to them as ‹foriginals› (a combination of ‹forged› and ‹original›). The permanent amalgamation of fact and fiction realized in this way points toward an extremely expanded concept of one’s working materials, which for UbermorgenUbermorgen
UBERMORGEN.COM is a swiss-austrian-american artist duo founded in 1995 by lizvlx and Hans Bernhard. They live and work in Vienna, Basel and S-Chanf near St...
.com also include (international) rights, democracy and global communication (input-feedback-loops). Vote-Auction was exhibited at the Lentos Kunstmuseum
Museum
A museum is an institution that cares for a collection of artifacts and other objects of scientific, artistic, cultural, or historical importance and makes them available for public viewing through exhibits that may be permanent or temporary. Most large museums are located in major cities...
Linz
Linz
Linz is the third-largest city of Austria and capital of the state of Upper Austria . It is located in the north centre of Austria, approximately south of the Czech border, on both sides of the river Danube. The population of the city is , and that of the Greater Linz conurbation is about...
(Austria
Austria
Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country of roughly 8.4 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the...
) 2005, Eyebeam New York, 2010, expo.02 Switzerland, 2002.
Related Projects & Election Trilogy
As an affirmative approach towards the illegal delivery of court orders from U.S. courts to Europe, UBERMORGEN.COM released the "Injunction generatorInjunction generator
The Injunction Generator is an artistic software module by Austrian artists Ubermorgen which claims to generate on request legal injunctions and personalized documentation in .rtf/.pdf format to force a website into taking its contents offline....
", an engine which renders customized court orders on demand.
In 2004 UBERMORGEN.COM released the 2nd part of the "Election Trilogy" named *THE*AGENCY for manual election recount. In 2007 WAHLGELD.COM, a vote-buying and selling platform for the Swiss parliamentary elections was launched. The actual selling and buying of votes was covered by leaking information about the authors (as artists), therefore the election commission, the media and the voters were certain about the non-commercial motivation. Approximately 700 electoral votes were bought for an average of CHF 75.-.
The Team, The Collaborators, The Supporters, The Defendants, The Plaintiffs
- UbermorgenUbermorgenUBERMORGEN.COM is a swiss-austrian-american artist duo founded in 1995 by lizvlx and Hans Bernhard. They live and work in Vienna, Basel and S-Chanf near St...
.com - Hans Bernhard aka Dr. Andreas Bichlbauer
- lizvlx aka Sandra Baierl aka Elisabeth Haas
- James Baumgartner
- Tilmann Singer
- Silver Server
- lo-res.org
- Oskar Obereder
- Christoph Johannes Mutter
- hell.comHell.comHell.com is an internet domain which has achieved a degree of notoriety due to its name, and an intentionally mysterious website that existed there from August 1995 to 2009 created by the first registrant of the domain, artist Kenneth Aronson....
- Bootlab Berlin
- Domenico Quaranta
- Domain Bank Inc.
- Luzius Bernhard
- Stefanie Schliepack
- State of Missouri
External links
- http://www.vote-auction.net Vote-auction Website, with Archive