From b548d6bf27d6e8a26e8a05a6ed7516d66f9bcd4f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Marcell Mars Date: Tue, 7 Nov 2023 00:33:02 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] !publish! img caption... --- content/mirror/everythingistemporary.md | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/content/mirror/everythingistemporary.md b/content/mirror/everythingistemporary.md index 14e2b92..b3f9ff0 100644 --- a/content/mirror/everythingistemporary.md +++ b/content/mirror/everythingistemporary.md @@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ 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)_ 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: @@ -24,4 +25,4 @@ In the greeting card, we, people who care, are invited to find our own Ubu. The Therefore, those who care will bring a 3TB hard drive and at Interliber will get a chance to copy a mirror of Ubu to that drive. By Ubu's fiftieth we should have fifty mirrors! -With Ubu@50, we ask what the future should look like to allow Ubu and other autonomous digital archives to survive over the next quarter of a century. What kind of future can we imagine for avant-gardes under the conditions of ubiquitous digital infrastructures, intensive application of artificial intelligence and technological responses to social and ecological crises? And vice versa, what kind of future can we imagine for societies from the perspective of sustainable use of technologies, radical avant-garde gestures and the commons as they were created in digital culture over the previous quarter of a century? \ No newline at end of file +With Ubu@50, we ask what the future should look like to allow Ubu and other autonomous digital archives to survive over the next quarter of a century. What kind of future can we imagine for avant-gardes under the conditions of ubiquitous digital infrastructures, intensive application of artificial intelligence and technological responses to social and ecological crises? And vice versa, what kind of future can we imagine for societies from the perspective of sustainable use of technologies, radical avant-garde gestures and the commons as they were created in digital culture over the previous quarter of a century?