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'''UbuWeb''' is the most significant and largest online archive of avant-garde art; it was initiated and is led by conceptual artist [[Kenneth Goldsmith]]. UbuWeb has grown into a relevant and recognized critical institution of contemporary art. Artists want to see their work in its catalog and thus agree to a relationship with UbuWeb that has no formal contractual obligations.
 
'''UbuWeb''' is the most significant and largest online archive of avant-garde art; it was initiated and is led by conceptual artist [[Kenneth Goldsmith]]. UbuWeb has grown into a relevant and recognized critical institution of contemporary art. Artists want to see their work in its catalog and thus agree to a relationship with UbuWeb that has no formal contractual obligations.
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As of 2024, UbuWeb is no longer updated, but remains available on its website and mirrors.
  
 
==Essays, statements, interviews==
 
==Essays, statements, interviews==
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* Kenneth Goldsmith, [http://web.archive.org/web/20060912121512/wings.buffalo.edu/epc/authors/goldsmith/ubuweb.html "Ubuweb wants to be Free"], 2001. Open letter.
  
 
* John Jourden, [https://archinect.com/features/article/59857 "UbuWeb Vu: Kenneth Goldsmith"], ''Archinect'', 26 Jun 2007. Interview.
 
* John Jourden, [https://archinect.com/features/article/59857 "UbuWeb Vu: Kenneth Goldsmith"], ''Archinect'', 26 Jun 2007. Interview.
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* Damon Krukowski, [https://www.artforum.com/columns/kenneth-goldsmith-and-ubuweb-187588/ "Free Verses: Kenneth Goldsmith and UbuWeb"], ''Artforum'' 46:7, Mar 2008, p 129. [https://writing.upenn.edu/epc/authors/goldsmith/artforum.html]
 
* Damon Krukowski, [https://www.artforum.com/columns/kenneth-goldsmith-and-ubuweb-187588/ "Free Verses: Kenneth Goldsmith and UbuWeb"], ''Artforum'' 46:7, Mar 2008, p 129. [https://writing.upenn.edu/epc/authors/goldsmith/artforum.html]
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* [http://www.hi-beam.net/fw/fw37/index.html#593 Discussion about UbuWeb on the Frameworks list], 9-20 Jun 2008.
  
 
* Lindesay Irvine, [https://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2008/oct/29/site-of-the-week-ubuweb "Site of the week: UbuWeb"], ''The Guardian'', 29 Oct 2008.
 
* Lindesay Irvine, [https://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2008/oct/29/site-of-the-week-ubuweb "Site of the week: UbuWeb"], ''The Guardian'', 29 Oct 2008.
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* Jean-Jacques Larrochelle, [https://www.lemonde.fr/vous/article/2012/07/18/ubu-roi-des-sons_1735250_3238.html "Ubu, roi des sons"], ''Le Monde'', 18 Jul 2012. {{fr}}
 
* Jean-Jacques Larrochelle, [https://www.lemonde.fr/vous/article/2012/07/18/ubu-roi-des-sons_1735250_3238.html "Ubu, roi des sons"], ''Le Monde'', 18 Jul 2012. {{fr}}
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* [[Sean Dockray]], [[Media:Dockray Sean 2012 UbuWeb.pdf|"Kenneth Goldsmith, et al., UbuWeb"]], ''Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians'' 71:3, Sep 2012, pp 429-430.
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* Agnès Peller, "Ubuweb de Kenneth Goldsmith : un geste artistique dans les humanités numériques", Paris: Université de la Sorbonne Nouvelle, 2013. Master's thesis.
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** ''[[Media:Peller_Agnes_Kenneth_Goldsmiths_UbuWeb.pdf|Kenneth Goldsmith's UbuWeb. An Artist's Contribution to the Digital Humanities]]'', trans. Francesca Simkin, Paris: University of Paris 3-Sorbonne Nouvelle, 2015, 108 pp. Revised version.
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* Rodrigo José Brasil Silva, [https://doi.org/10.5007/1807-9288.2014v10n2p3 "A experiência UbuWeb: arte e arquivo na internet"], ''Texto Digital'' 10:2, Dec 2014. {{br-pt}}
  
 
* Blake Butler, [https://www.vice.com/en/article/av4xka/ubu-publishes-the-unpublishable-872 "Ubu Publishes the Unpublishable"], ''VICE'', 26 Feb 2015.
 
* Blake Butler, [https://www.vice.com/en/article/av4xka/ubu-publishes-the-unpublishable-872 "Ubu Publishes the Unpublishable"], ''VICE'', 26 Feb 2015.
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* [[Nick Collins]], [https://sci-hub.st/10.1017/S1355771814000533 "The UbuWeb Electronic Music Corpus: An MIR investigation of a historical database"], ''Organised Sound'' 20:1, Apr 2015, pp 122-134. [https://doi.org/10.1017/S1355771814000533]
 
* [[Nick Collins]], [https://sci-hub.st/10.1017/S1355771814000533 "The UbuWeb Electronic Music Corpus: An MIR investigation of a historical database"], ''Organised Sound'' 20:1, Apr 2015, pp 122-134. [https://doi.org/10.1017/S1355771814000533]
  
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* Agnès Peller, ''[[Media:Peller_Agnes_Kenneth_Goldsmiths_UbuWeb.pdf|Kenneth Goldsmith's UbuWeb. An Artist's Contribution to the Digital Humanities]]'', trans. Francesca Simkin, Paris: University of Paris 3-Sorbonne Nouvelle, 2015, 108 pp. Revised master's thesis.
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* Agnès Peller, [https://synoptiqueblog.files.wordpress.com/2018/07/8-agnecc80s-peller-ubuweb-de-kenneth-goldsmith-une-archive-issue-du-web-de-documents.pdf "UbuWeb de Kenneth Goldsmith : une archive issue du web de documents"], ''Synoptique'' 4:1, Summer 2015, pp 151-164. [https://www.synoptique.ca/issue-4-1] {{fr}}
  
 
* [[Daniel Snelson]], [https://monoskop.org/images/8/8c/Snelson_Daniel_Variable_Format_Media_Poetics_and_the_Little_Database_2015.pdf#page=139 "'Ever the Avant-Garde of the Avant-Garde till Heaven and After': UbuWeb from Film to Database"], ch 4 in Snelson, ''Variable Format: Media Poetics and the Little Database'', University of Pennsylvania, 2015, pp 133-179. PhD thesis. [https://repository.upenn.edu/dissertations/AAI3722240/]
 
* [[Daniel Snelson]], [https://monoskop.org/images/8/8c/Snelson_Daniel_Variable_Format_Media_Poetics_and_the_Little_Database_2015.pdf#page=139 "'Ever the Avant-Garde of the Avant-Garde till Heaven and After': UbuWeb from Film to Database"], ch 4 in Snelson, ''Variable Format: Media Poetics and the Little Database'', University of Pennsylvania, 2015, pp 133-179. PhD thesis. [https://repository.upenn.edu/dissertations/AAI3722240/]
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* [[Cornelia Sollfrank]], [http://www.ocopy.net/essays/cornelia-sollfrank/ "The Surplus of Copying: How Shadow Libraries and Pirate Archives Contribute to the Creation of Cultural Memory and the Commons"], ''originalcopy'', Nov 2018. [http://creatingcommons.zhdk.ch/?p=581]
 
* [[Cornelia Sollfrank]], [http://www.ocopy.net/essays/cornelia-sollfrank/ "The Surplus of Copying: How Shadow Libraries and Pirate Archives Contribute to the Creation of Cultural Memory and the Commons"], ''originalcopy'', Nov 2018. [http://creatingcommons.zhdk.ch/?p=581]
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''See also'' reviews of Goldsmith's ''[https://monoskop.org/log/?p=22330 Duchamp Is My Lawyer: The Polemics, Pragmatics, and Poetics of UbuWeb]''.
  
 
==Links==
 
==Links==

Revision as of 11:41, 10 March 2024

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UbuWeb is the most significant and largest online archive of avant-garde art; it was initiated and is led by conceptual artist Kenneth Goldsmith. UbuWeb has grown into a relevant and recognized critical institution of contemporary art. Artists want to see their work in its catalog and thus agree to a relationship with UbuWeb that has no formal contractual obligations.

As of 2024, UbuWeb is no longer updated, but remains available on its website and mirrors.

Essays, statements, interviews

  • Kenneth Goldsmith, "UbuWeb", Prague: Artyčok/Academy of Fine Arts, 28 Jan 2019, 56 min. Video. Audio. Talk on UbuWeb and Custodians Online. Part of TBA21's Class of Interpretation.

On UbuWeb

See also reviews of Goldsmith's Duchamp Is My Lawyer: The Polemics, Pragmatics, and Poetics of UbuWeb.

Links

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