"UbuWeb is a completely independent resource dedicated to all strains of the avant-garde, ethnopoetics, and outsider arts. All materials on UbuWeb are being made available for noncommercial and educational use only. All rights belong to the author(s). UbuWeb is completely free."
There's a large collection of famous works -- poetry, video, art, and a number of mishmashed genres.
UbuWeb posts much of its content without permission; we rip out-of-print
LPs into sound files; we scan as many old books as we can get our hands on; we
post essays as fast as we can OCR them. UbuWeb is an unlimited resource with
unlimited space to fill. It is in this way that the site has grown to encompass
hundreds of artists, hundreds of gigabytes of sound files, books, texts and
videos.
Sounds like a marginal situation? Hardly. We've won many prestigious
internet awards and are acknowledged web-wide as the definitive source for
Visual, Concrete + Sound Poetry. UbuWeb is on the syllabus of countless schools;
we've gotten queries from Ph.D. candidates seeking information to third-graders
researching a paper on concrete poetry. UbuWeb embodies an unstable community,
neither vertical nor horizontal but rather a Deleuzian nomadic model: a
4-dimensional space simultaneously expanding and contracting in every direction,
growing "rhizomatically" with ever-increasing unpredictability and uncanniness.
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