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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. [https://www.memoryoftheworld.org/blog/2014/10/27/public_library_an_essay/] |
As of 2024, UbuWeb is no longer updated, but remains available on its website and mirrors. | As of 2024, UbuWeb is no longer updated, but remains available on its website and mirrors. | ||
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* Ned Beauman, [https://writing.upenn.edu/epc/authors/goldsmith/Dazed-Web-Intellectual.jpg "Web Intellectual: Meet the American poet bringing highbrow literature to the masses"], ''Dazed and Confused'', Sep 2009, [https://writing.upenn.edu/epc/authors/goldsmith/web-intellectual-dazed.html HTML]. | * Ned Beauman, [https://writing.upenn.edu/epc/authors/goldsmith/Dazed-Web-Intellectual.jpg "Web Intellectual: Meet the American poet bringing highbrow literature to the masses"], ''Dazed and Confused'', Sep 2009, [https://writing.upenn.edu/epc/authors/goldsmith/web-intellectual-dazed.html HTML]. | ||
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| + | * [[Janneke Adema]], [https://openreflections.wordpress.com/2009/09/20/scanners-collectors-and-aggregators-on-the-%E2%80%98underground-movement%E2%80%99-of-pirated-theory-text-sharing/ "Scanners, collectors and aggregators. On the ‘underground movement’ of (pirated) theory text sharing"], ''Open Reflections'' blog, Sep 2009. | ||
* Danny Birchall, [https://filmquarterly.org/2009/09/01/the-avant-garde-archive-online/ "The Avant-Garde Archive Online"], ''Film Quarterly'' 63:1, Autumn 2009, pp 12-14, [https://sci-hub.st/10.1525/fq.2009.63.1.12 PDF]. [https://doi.org/10.1525/fq.2009.63.1.12] | * Danny Birchall, [https://filmquarterly.org/2009/09/01/the-avant-garde-archive-online/ "The Avant-Garde Archive Online"], ''Film Quarterly'' 63:1, Autumn 2009, pp 12-14, [https://sci-hub.st/10.1525/fq.2009.63.1.12 PDF]. [https://doi.org/10.1525/fq.2009.63.1.12] | ||
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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. | * [[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. | ||
| − | * Agnès Peller, "Ubuweb de Kenneth Goldsmith : un geste artistique dans les humanités numériques", Paris: Université de la Sorbonne Nouvelle, 2013. Master's thesis. | + | * Agnès Peller, "Ubuweb de Kenneth Goldsmith: un geste artistique dans les humanités numériques", Paris: Université de la Sorbonne Nouvelle, 2013. Master's thesis. |
** ''[[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. | ** ''[[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. | ||
| − | * | + | * Cat Hope, John Ryan, "UbuWeb and the Repository of the Avant-Garde", in ''[http://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=79AB946DAE5D0C4FE18CB613952F779B Digital Arts: An Introduction to New Media]'', Bloomsbury, Jun 2014, pp 189-190. |
| − | * | + | * [[Marcell Mars]], Manar Zarroug, [[Tomislav Medak]], [https://www.memoryoftheworld.org/blog/2014/10/27/public_library_an_essay/ "Public Library (An Essay)"], ''Memory of the World'' blog, 27 Oct 2014; [http://monoskop.org/images/e/ef/Medak_Mars_WHW_eds_Public_Library_Javna_knjiznica.pdf#page=76 printed in] ''Javna knjižnica / Public Library'', eds. Tomislav Medak, Marcell Mars, and WHW, Zagreb: WHW & Multimedia Institute, 2015, pp 75-85; [https://zfmedienwissenschaft.de/online/public-library reposted on] ''Zeitschrift für Medienwissenschaft: Open-Media-Studies-Blog'', 17 Dec 2018. On the idea of public library. |
| + | ** [http://monoskop.org/images/e/ef/Medak_Mars_WHW_eds_Public_Library_Javna_knjiznica.pdf#page=8 "Javna knjižnica (Esej)"], trans. Una Bauer, in ''Javna knjižnica / Public Library'', eds. Tomislav Medak, Marcell Mars, and WHW, Zagreb: WHW & Multimedia Institute, 2015, pp 7-17. {{cr}} | ||
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| + | * [[Sarah Hamerman]], [https://studentwork.prattsi.org/foundations/2014/11/20/cataloging-plunder-thoughts-on-the-digital-text-sharing-underground/ "Cataloging Plunder: Thoughts on the Digital Text-Sharing Underground"], ''LIS Theory'' blog, 20 Nov 2014; upd. as [http://www.fvckthemedia.com/issue61/pirate-libraries Pirate Libraries and the Fight for Open Information"], ''The Media'' 61: The Immaterial Digital Labor Issue, 5 Sep 2015. | ||
* 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}} | * 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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| + | * Deanna Fong, [https://amodern.net/article/spoken-word/ "Spoken Word: Audio-Textual Relations in UbuWeb, PennSound and SpokenWeb"], ''Amodern'' 4, Mar 2015. | ||
* [[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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* Michael Nardone, [https://soundobject.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/MDN_Poetics-Network.pdf "Poetics in a Networked Digital Milieu"], ''College Literature'' 47:1, Winter 2020, pp 248-258. | * Michael Nardone, [https://soundobject.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/MDN_Poetics-Network.pdf "Poetics in a Networked Digital Milieu"], ''College Literature'' 47:1, Winter 2020, pp 248-258. | ||
** [https://www.sens-public.org/articles/1523/ "Poétique des réseaux"], trans. Sébastien McLaughlin, ''Sens Public'', Jun 2021. {{fr}} | ** [https://www.sens-public.org/articles/1523/ "Poétique des réseaux"], trans. Sébastien McLaughlin, ''Sens Public'', Jun 2021. {{fr}} | ||
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| + | * [[Olga Goriunova]], [[Media:Goriunova Olga 2021 Uploading our Libraries The Subjects of Art and Knowledge Commons.pdf|"Uploading our Libraries: The Subjects of Art and Knowledge Commons"]], in ''[https://monoskop.org/log/?p=22865 Aesthetics of the Commons]'', eds. Cornelia Sollfrank, Felix Stalder and Shusha Niederberger, Zurich: diaphanes, Jan 2021, pp 41-61. | ||
* Gill Partington, "Kontext ist alles. Kenneth Goldsmith und UbuWeb", ''Merkur'' 866, Jul 2021, pp 59-66. [https://www.merkur-zeitschrift.de/artikel/kontext-ist-alles-a-mr-75-7-59/] {{de}} | * Gill Partington, "Kontext ist alles. Kenneth Goldsmith und UbuWeb", ''Merkur'' 866, Jul 2021, pp 59-66. [https://www.merkur-zeitschrift.de/artikel/kontext-ist-alles-a-mr-75-7-59/] {{de}} | ||
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| + | * [[Sandra Fauconnier]], [[Media:Fauconnier Sandra 2023 Challenges in the Creation Perception and Distribution of Documentation.pdf|"Challenges in the Creation, Perception and Distribution of Documentation"]], in ''[http://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=D9AB0B6EFC64E10CE006B9CD8BBCE9F2 Documentation as Art: Expanded Digital Practices]'', eds. Annet Dekker and Gabriella Giannachi, Routledge, Jan 2023, pp 75-86. | ||
''See also'' reviews of Goldsmith's ''[https://monoskop.org/log/?p=22330 Duchamp Is My Lawyer: The Polemics, Pragmatics, and Poetics of UbuWeb]''. | ''See also'' reviews of Goldsmith's ''[https://monoskop.org/log/?p=22330 Duchamp Is My Lawyer: The Polemics, Pragmatics, and Poetics of UbuWeb]''. | ||
Revision as of 21:02, 11 March 2024
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. [1]
As of 2024, UbuWeb is no longer updated, but remains available on its website and mirrors.
Essays, statements, interviews
- Kenneth Goldsmith, "Ubuweb wants to be Free", 2001. Open letter.
- Kenneth Goldsmith, "The End of UbuWeb", UB Poetics discussion group, 1 Jun 2005.
- Kenneth Goldsmith, "If It Doesn't Exist on the Internet, It Doesn't Exist", Harriet Blog, 16 Mar 2007.
- John Jourden, "UbuWeb Vu: Kenneth Goldsmith", Archinect, 26 Jun 2007. Interview.
- Kenneth Goldsmith, "If We Had to Ask Permission, We Wouldn't Exist: A Brief Account of UbuWeb", Parkett 82, 2008, pp 6-10. [2]
- "Müssten wir um Erlaubnis bitten, gäbe es uns nicht mehr UbuWeb - eine kurze Darstellung", trans. Wolfgang Himmelberg, Parkett 82, 2008, pp 11-15. (German)
- Kenneth Goldsmith, "If We Had To Ask for Permission, We Wouldn't Exist: An Open Letter to the Frameworks Community", 18 Oct 2010.
- "Son(i)a #116: Kenneth Goldsmith", Radio Web MACBA, 16 Dec 2010, 18 min. Audio.
- Kenneth Goldsmith, "About UbuWeb", UbuWeb, 2011.
- Kenneth Goldsmith, "UbuWeb at 15 Years: An Overview", Poetry Foundation, 26 Apr 2011; version on UbuWeb, 2011.
- Kenneth Goldsmith, "Paradise Now: UbuWeb's World Without Copyright", 17 Mar 2012. Keynote speech given at Matadero Madrid. (English), (Spanish)
- "Memorabilia. Collecting Sounds with... Kenneth Goldsmith, Radio Web MACBA, 12 Jul 2012, 48 min. Audio.
- Kenneth Goldsmith, "Robin Hood of the Avant-Garde", in Dynamic Fair Dealing: Creating Canadian Culture Online, eds. Rosemary J. Coombe, et al., Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2014, pp 251-260. [4]
- Kenneth Goldsmith, "Copyright Is Over – If You Want It (Guest Post)", Billboard, 15 Jul 2014.
- 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.
- Kenneth Goldsmith, "UbuWeb: An Accidental Archive", OnCurating 44: "Curating Contemporary Music", Jan 2020.
- Kenneth Goldsmith, Duchamp Is My Lawyer: The Polemics, Pragmatics, and Poetics of UbuWeb, New York: Columbia University Press, Jul 2020, x+318 pp. [5]
- "Le manifeste polémique d’UbuWeb", Multitudes 76, trans. Cristiano de Sá Fagundes, 2019, pp 155-167. Trans. of first chapter. [6] (French)
On UbuWeb
- Stefan Drees, "klang, körper, text: «UbuWeb» ist eine Fundgrube für Material aus den grenzbereichen der Künste", Neue Zeitschrift für Musik 167:4, Mainz, Jul/Aug 2006, pp 52-53. [8] (German)
- Joel Harrison, "Web Poetics and the Gift Economy: nzepc, PennSound and UbuWeb", Ka Mate Ka Ora: A New Zealand Journal of Poetry and Poetics 2, Auckland, Jul 2006, pp 5-21, PDF. [9]
- Thomas Bécard, "Des pièces rares du cinéma contestataire mondial accessibles à tous", Télérama 2960, 7 Oct 2006. (French)
- David Klimeš, "Kolekce umělecké avantgardy", Respekt, 25 Mar 2007. (Czech)
- June Torbati, "UbuWeb offers uber obscure", Yale Daily News, 13 Apr 2007.
- Paul Fileri, "Site Specifics: UbuWeb", Film Comment 43:5, New York, Sep/Oct 2007, p 10. [10]
- Jean-Marc Manach, "Au royaume d’UbuWeb, trésors sonores et visuels d’avant-garde", Le Monde, 18 Oct 2007. (French)
- Damon Krukowski, "Free Verses: Kenneth Goldsmith and UbuWeb", Artforum 46:7, Mar 2008, p 129, HTML.
- Discussion about UbuWeb on the Frameworks list, 9-20 Jun 2008.
- Lindesay Irvine, "Site of the week: UbuWeb", The Guardian, 29 Oct 2008.
- Street Poets & Visionaries: Selections from the Ubuweb Collection, Toronto: Mercer Union, 2009, 8 pp. Exh. booklet. Darren Wershler's essay, [11]. Photos. Reviews: Taylor (Globe & Mail), Sutton (c mag). Previously shown at Oliver Kamm/5BE Gallery, New York, 2006. Review: Cotter (NYT), Church (Art on Paper).
- "Kenneth Goldsmith's UbuWeb", KQED, 20 Mar 2009.
- Ned Beauman, "Web Intellectual: Meet the American poet bringing highbrow literature to the masses", Dazed and Confused, Sep 2009, HTML.
- Janneke Adema, "Scanners, collectors and aggregators. On the ‘underground movement’ of (pirated) theory text sharing", Open Reflections blog, Sep 2009.
- Danny Birchall, "The Avant-Garde Archive Online", Film Quarterly 63:1, Autumn 2009, pp 12-14, PDF. [12]
- Miloš Vojtěchovský, "Jánošík online archivů. UbuWeb – autorské právo a poetická (an)architektura", A2 12, Prague, Jun 2010. [13] (Czech)
- Miguel Conde, "A vanguarda da pilhagem. No maior site de arte experimental na web, a ordem é roubar primeiro e resolver depois", O Globo, Rio de Janiero, 26 Mar 2011, pp 1-2. (Brazilian Portuguese)
- Ashley M. Gibson, "From Ant Farm to UbuWeb: Distribution and Access in Artists’ Video from the 1960s to the Present", Eugene, OR: University of Oregon, Jun 2011, viii+87 pp. Master's thesis.
- Ekkehard Knörer, "Trainingseffekte. Arbeiten mit YouTube und UbuWeb", Zeitschrift für Medienwissenschaft 3(2): "Empirie", 2011, pp 163-166. (German)
- Jean-Jacques Larrochelle, "Ubu, roi des sons", Le Monde, 18 Jul 2012. (French)
- Sean Dockray, "Kenneth Goldsmith, et al., UbuWeb", Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 71:3, Sep 2012, pp 429-430.
- Agnès Peller, "Ubuweb de Kenneth Goldsmith: un geste artistique dans les humanités numériques", Paris: Université de la Sorbonne Nouvelle, 2013. Master's thesis.
- 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.
- Cat Hope, John Ryan, "UbuWeb and the Repository of the Avant-Garde", in Digital Arts: An Introduction to New Media, Bloomsbury, Jun 2014, pp 189-190.
- Marcell Mars, Manar Zarroug, Tomislav Medak, "Public Library (An Essay)", Memory of the World blog, 27 Oct 2014; printed in Javna knjižnica / Public Library, eds. Tomislav Medak, Marcell Mars, and WHW, Zagreb: WHW & Multimedia Institute, 2015, pp 75-85; reposted on Zeitschrift für Medienwissenschaft: Open-Media-Studies-Blog, 17 Dec 2018. On the idea of public library.
- "Javna knjižnica (Esej)", trans. Una Bauer, in Javna knjižnica / Public Library, eds. Tomislav Medak, Marcell Mars, and WHW, Zagreb: WHW & Multimedia Institute, 2015, pp 7-17. (Croatian)
- Sarah Hamerman, "Cataloging Plunder: Thoughts on the Digital Text-Sharing Underground", LIS Theory blog, 20 Nov 2014; upd. as Pirate Libraries and the Fight for Open Information", The Media 61: The Immaterial Digital Labor Issue, 5 Sep 2015.
- Rodrigo José Brasil Silva, "A experiência UbuWeb: arte e arquivo na internet", Texto Digital 10:2, Dec 2014. (Brazilian Portuguese)
- Blake Butler, "Ubu Publishes the Unpublishable", VICE, 26 Feb 2015.
- Deanna Fong, "Spoken Word: Audio-Textual Relations in UbuWeb, PennSound and SpokenWeb", Amodern 4, Mar 2015.
- Nick Collins, "The UbuWeb Electronic Music Corpus: An MIR investigation of a historical database", Organised Sound 20:1, Apr 2015, pp 122-134. [14]
- McKenzie Wark, "Metadata Punk", in Javna knjižnica / Public Library, eds. Tomislav Medak, Marcell Mars, and WHW, Zagreb: WHW & Multimedia Institute, 2015, pp 111-117.
- "Metapodatkovni punk", trans. Dušanka Profeta, in Javna knjižnica / Public Library, eds. Tomislav Medak, Marcell Mars, and WHW, Zagreb: WHW & Multimedia Institute, 2015, pp 41-47. (Croatian)
- Tomislav Medak, "The Future After the Library. UbuWeb and Monoskop's Radical Gestures", in Javna knjižnica / Public Library, eds. Tomislav Medak, Marcell Mars, and WHW, Zagreb: WHW & Multimedia Institute, 2015, pp 121-137.
- "Budućnosti iz knjižnice. Radikalne geste UbuWeba i Monoskopa", in Javna knjižnica / Public Library, eds. Tomislav Medak, Marcell Mars, and WHW, Zagreb: WHW & Multimedia Institute, 2015, pp 51-66. (Croatian)
- Alexeev Vladimir, "UbuWeb - das Archiv der Avantgarde schlechthin", Dada, Merz & Co., Jul 2015. (German)
- Agnès Peller, "UbuWeb de Kenneth Goldsmith : une archive issue du web de documents", Synoptique 4:1, Summer 2015, pp 151-164. [15] (French)
- Daniel Snelson, "'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. [16]
- Cornelia Sollfrank, "Nothing New Needs to be Created: Kenneth Goldsmith’s Claim to Uncreativity", in No Internet – No Art. A Lunch Byte Anthology, ed. Melanie Bühler, Eindhoven: Onomatopee, 2015, pp 40-50.
- Nick Thurston, "Happy Birthday Ubu. Twenty years of sharing", Frieze, 26 Oct 2016.
- "Happy birthday, Ubu.com!", Custodians.online, 30 Nov 2016.
- Jacob Brogan, "The Website That Collects the Forgotten and the Unfamiliar", Slate, 23 Dec 2016.
- Björn Ekström, "Publiceringsvariationer: en jämförelse mellan DigitaltMuseum och UbuWeb", Tidskrift för ABM 2:1, Uppsala, 2017, pp 4-14. (Swedish)
- Nanna Bonde Thylstrup, "UbuWeb", in Thylstrup, The Politics of Mass Digitization, MIT Press, 2018, pp 94-97, n162, HTML.
- Michael Nardone, "UbuWeb", ch. 2 in Nardone, Of the Repository: Poetics in a Networked Digital Milieu, Montreal: Concordia University, 2018, pp 104-175. PhD thesis.
- 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. [17]
- Michael Nardone, "Poetics in a Networked Digital Milieu", College Literature 47:1, Winter 2020, pp 248-258.
- "Poétique des réseaux", trans. Sébastien McLaughlin, Sens Public, Jun 2021. (French)
- Olga Goriunova, "Uploading our Libraries: The Subjects of Art and Knowledge Commons", in Aesthetics of the Commons, eds. Cornelia Sollfrank, Felix Stalder and Shusha Niederberger, Zurich: diaphanes, Jan 2021, pp 41-61.
- Gill Partington, "Kontext ist alles. Kenneth Goldsmith und UbuWeb", Merkur 866, Jul 2021, pp 59-66. [18] (German)
- Sandra Fauconnier, "Challenges in the Creation, Perception and Distribution of Documentation", in Documentation as Art: Expanded Digital Practices, eds. Annet Dekker and Gabriella Giannachi, Routledge, Jan 2023, pp 75-86.
See also reviews of Goldsmith's Duchamp Is My Lawyer: The Polemics, Pragmatics, and Poetics of UbuWeb.
Links
- Website
- Avant-Garde All The Time, podcast series, 16 eps, Poetry Foundation, Dec 2007-Jan 2011.
- Shadow Libraries: UbuWeb in Athens, exhibitions and symposia, Onassis Cultural Center & National Museum of Contemporary Art (ESTE), Athens, 16-18 Mar 2018. Booklet PDF.
- Mirror: ubu-mirror.ch
- UbuWeb web archive, Library of Congress
- Wikipedia
