UbuWeb
Type of site | Digital library |
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Available in | English |
Editor | Kenneth Goldsmith |
URL | www |
Commercial | no |
Registration | none |
Current status | Online |
UbuWeb was a web-based educational resource for
On January 1, 2024, UbuWeb shuttered, posting: "As of 2024, UbuWeb is no longer active. The archive is preserved for perpetuity, in its entirety."
Philosophy
UbuWeb was founded in response to the marginal distribution of crucial
Distribution policy
UbuWeb does not distribute commercially viable works but rather resurrects avant-garde sound art, video and textual works through their translation into a digital art web environment - re-contextualising them with current academic commentary and contemporary practice.[4] It houses and distributes freely the entire archive of the Tellus Audio Cassette Magazine project. In 2020, Kenneth Goldsmith wrote in his book Duchamp Is My Lawyer: The Polemics, Pragmatics, and Poetics of Ubuweb that “Perhaps no collection of audio inspired UbuWeb more than the Tellus cassettes….”[5]
Content
Beyond its repository of works, UbuWeb features curated sections including /ubu Editions book-length editions of contemporary poetry, selected and introduced by the poet Brian Kim Stefans. UbuWeb: Ethnopoetics, curated by Jerome Rothenberg, is fusing the avant-garde with traditional ethnic practices. UbuWeb: Papers is a series of contextual academic essays. UbuWeb:Outsiders considers the legitimization of Outsider works and features The 365 Days Project curated by Otis Fodder.
Infrastructure
UbuWeb is not affiliated to any academic institution, instead relying on alliances of interest and benefiting from bandwidth donations from its partnerships with GreyLodge,
References
- ^ Brogan, Jacob (December 23, 2016). "This Totally Weird, 20-Year-Old Website Collects the Forgotten and the Unfamiliar". Slate Magazine.
- ISBN 9781780933238– via Google Books.
- ^ Goldsmith, Kenneth (2001). "Ubuweb Wants to be Free (Open Letter)". Electronic Poetry Center. State University of New York at Buffalo. Archived from the original on 2002-03-12.
- ^ Damon Krukowski, "Free Verses: Kenneth Goldsmith and UbuWeb", Artforum, March 2008
- ISBN 9780231186957.
External links
- UbuWeb
- Damon Krukowski, "Free Verses: Kenneth Goldsmith and UbuWeb", Artforum, March 2008
- Kenneth Goldsmith: "UbuWeb Wants to be Free"
- Kenneth Goldsmith: "If It Doesn't Exist on the Internet, It Doesn't Exist"