This show is on till the end of this week

UBU

UbuWeb

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UbuWeb is a large web-based educational resource for avant-garde material available on the internet, founded in 1996 by poet Kenneth Goldsmith. It offers visual, concrete and sound poetry, expanding to include film and sound art mp3 archives.

Philosophy

UbuWeb was founded in response to the marginal distribution of crucial avant-garde material. It remains non-commercial and operates on a gift economy.^[1] UbuWeb ensures educational open access to out-of-print works that find a second life through digital art reprint while also representing the work of contemporaries. It addresses problems in the distribution of and access to intellectual materials.

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.^[2] It houses and distributes freely the entire archive of the Tellus Audio Cassette Magazine project.

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 who is fusing the avant-garde with traditional ethnic practices. UbuWeb: Papers a series of contextual academic essays. UbuWeb:OutsidersThe site UBUWEB at the address http://www.ubu.com/ is a particularly good one for artists.

This team blog site is set up student artists from different campuses associated with RMIT in Melbourne, Hong Kong and Vietnam as well as international universities. IT aims to act as interconnecting studio site in which students from all year levels can discuss, post images and generally contact each other in a relatively informal way.
How does it work?
Simply contact me via the blogsite comments section and I will add you as team member. You will have your email address added to the site and then you to can contribute what is of interest to you and begin contact with other artists.
Hopefully, some people will collaborate on projects that reflect their interests in art making.
Some will write reviews of things they have seen...almost anything. Others will post images of photographs they have taken.
Remember because this is an RMIT iniatiated project you may wish to sign a copyright declaration form in order to protect your own work should you put it on the site.
Also I, Phil Edwards, will act as site administrator so as to make sure anything defamatory, racist or sexist is removed.
OK that the official business.....
Now lets begin with a couple of posts to kick it off....
these are two images from a new cd of music I am making which was a response to make music for videos for an artist named Tammy Honey (google her site www.tammyhoney.blogspot.com )