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 … ...

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 ...

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 ...

I'm singing this article's title in my head as if it were the titular line of that famous birthday song, substituted syllable for syllable. My backing track is a distorted recording of Fr. Basil ...

Star/Steer, Ian Hamilton Finlay, 1965 (original poem). Lent by the Estate of Mary Ellen Solt. By courtesy of the Estate of Ian Hamilton Finlay Sea-Poppy 2 (Fishing Boat Names), Ian Hamilton Finlay, ...

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 ...

A collection of Anglo-European avant-garde and modernist magazines dating to the late 19th and early 20th centuries has been compiled by Monoskop. The magazines range widely in format and subject ...

Jason Simon, Untitled (Video Against AIDS), 2013. Three facsimile cassette wraps and original printed materials. Beginning in 2009, artist Jason Simon worked with media scholar Cynthia Chris to ...

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