Hans Bernhard [CH/USA], is an artist, born 1973, who lives and works in Vienna and St. Moritz. He is the founder of etoy, the etoy.CORPORATION & UBERMORGEN.COM. Known aliases include: hans_extrem, etoy.HANS, etoy.BRAINHARD, David Arson, Dr. Andreas Bichlbauer, h_e, net_CALLBOY, Luzius A. Bernhard, Andy Bichlbaum, and Bart Kessner. Bernhard holds an M.F.A. in visual media from the University of Applied Arts in Vienna, Austria. His work has been seen in a number of solo exhibitions (The Premises Gallery Johannesburg, Kunsthaus Graz, Kunsthalle St. Gallen, Blasthaus Gallery San Francisco, c3 Budapest) and group exhibitions (Konsthall Malmoe, NTT ICC Tokyo, Lentos Museum of Modern Art, SFMOMA, Kunsthaus Graz, Ars Electronica, KOP Taiwan, EXPO.02 Switzerland, Aldrich Contemporary Art, Museu d`Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Secession, and Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo).

Larry Bogad is an author, performer, and activist. His book Electoral Guerrilla Theatre: Radical Ridicule and Social Movements, is an international study of performance artists who run for public office as a prank. Bogad works on the intersection between art and activism, and on the role of humor and imagination in organizing social movements.  He has taught “Tactical Performance” workshops internationally, and as “Art and Controversy” Fellow at Carnegie Mellon University and “Humanities and Political Conflict” Fellow at Arizona State University.  He contributed to the Special Edition of the New York Times and recently co-wrote and edited a smiliar project: http://iht.greenpeace.org/. Bogad’s darkly humorous performances have covered topics such as the Haymarket Square Confrontation, the FBI’s COINTELPRO activities and the PATRIOT ACT, and global climate chaos.