From 2c67c9bf7be39b80d3de2ecfb561da6e85c433b5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Marcell Mars Date: Tue, 7 Nov 2023 00:44:56 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] !publish! caption --- content/mirror/everythingistemporary.md | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/content/mirror/everythingistemporary.md b/content/mirror/everythingistemporary.md index b3f9ff0..6d8e53a 100644 --- a/content/mirror/everythingistemporary.md +++ b/content/mirror/everythingistemporary.md @@ -12,8 +12,7 @@ At Interliber, a book fair, we are exhibiting the electronic publication *Ubu@50 # Fragile archives -![](/static/images/everythingistemporary.jpg) -_A screenshot from EPUB reader on Android from ![](bib:2a927000-d645-4693-a4f5-34fad0a23943)_ +![](/static/images/everythingistemporary.jpg "A screenshot from Goldsmith's 'Duchamp Is My Lawyer'") _A screenshot from ![Duchamp Is My Lawyer](bib:2a927000-d645-4693-a4f5-34fad0a23943) on an Android phone'_ UbuWeb celebrated its 25th birthday two years ago. Since the advent of the Internet as a global mass medium, the American conceptual artist Kenneth Goldsmith himself, using rudimentary HTML code and without asking permission, has collected, organized and provided access to otherwise difficult-to-access works of experimental film, video art, contemporary theater, conceptual poetry and concrete music. Years before museums and archives of contemporary art began to digitize material from their depots, Ubu was a place to discover important works of cultural history and potentially the cultural future. However, in times of digital platforms, surveillance and intellectual property restrictions, precious archives like Ubu can disappear overnight. As Custodians.online once wrote in a birthday card for Ubu's 20th: