Twenty years ago, the experimental poet—and author of the recent Wasting Time on the Internet—Kenneth Goldsmith set out to create an online archive of concrete poetry, a partially visual art form that ...

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In 1988 the veteran conductor Nicolas Slonimsky, having built a career on the most experimental of repertoires, sat at the piano to record a ditty about a constipation remedy. The music was his, but ...

Kenneth Goldsmith, poetry professor and founder of Ubuweb, extols the virtues of copyright leniency. By Kenneth Goldsmith Christian Marclay’s massively popular artwork “The Clock” is comprised of ...

Ubuweb.com is an outrageously useful Web site that explores the last 50 years of avant-art through sound, poetry, essays, video and film, all free for the taking. For people on the ragged edge of the ...

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UbuWeb is intriguing, vast, bizarre, avant-garde and, if you’re OCD, ultimately terrifying and could swallow you whole for a week or a year. It’s really hard to explain because it sort of is … ...

UbuWeb is a compendious resource of everything from Kathy Acker to Frank Zappa, but has no systematic collection policy, being steered only by the instincts, enthusiasms and seemingly boundless energy ...