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Shadow Libraries: UbuWeb in Athens

Dates

Prices

Free Admission

Location

Athens

Time & Date

Day
Time
Venue
Day
Friday
Time
15:00
Venue
Onassis Stegi
Day
Saturday
Time
00:01-21:00
Venue
Onassis Stegi
Day
Sunday
Time
12:00
Venue
Onassis Stegi, Onassis Library, Greek Film Archive Foundation

Information

Tickets

Free entrance to all the events, on a strictly first come, first served basis.

The distribution of entrance tickets begins one (1) hour before the event.

Reservation is required for all the workshops and the symposium "Authoring at the Digital Age" held at the Onassis Library.

Language

All the events are held in English

What is UbuWeb? Is an archive capable to propose a different sort of art history? 3 days of talks and workshops in order to explore this and other shadow libraries.

In an age where public libraries are an endangered institution, media collections run by amateur librarians emerge as new, vital topographies of sharing. UbuWeb, a web-based educational archive founded by Kenneth Goldsmith in 1996, proposes a different sort of art history. It provides free and unrestricted access to a remarkable, idiosyncratic collection of film and video art, critical documents and essays, sound poetry and art recordings, among many other unclassifiable strands of the avant-garde.

We believe that the Ubuweb has a special meaning for Greece today, as it highlighted, through its spartan, low-bandwidth distribution, important questions regarding the notion of the periphery in an interconnected globalised world.

Through talks and workshops “Ubuweb in Athens” proposes to explore the uses of the archive in regards to artistic production, and examine Ubuweb and other shadow libraries, through the lens of its users and makers.

Program

Friday 16 March

15:00-18:00 | Romantso
Workshop with David Desrimais: “Archiving in Style, Part 1” 20:00-24:00| Exhibition Hall –1 | Onassis Stegi - Athens
Opening of the exhibition“Top Tens” and “24h Ubu screenings”
21:00 | Upper Stage | Onassis Stegi - Athens
Performance by Kenneth Goldsmith: “The Ideal Lecture (In Memory of David Antin)”

Saturday 17 March

00:00-20:00| Exhibition Hall –1 | Onassis Stegi - Athens
“Top Tens Exhibition” and “24h Ubu screenings”
11:00-14:00 | Exhibition Hall –1 | Onassis Stegi - Athens
Workshop with Steve McLaughlin: “Large-scale digital preservation under adversarial conditions” 14:00-17:00 | Exhibition Hall –1 | Onassis Stegi - Athens
Workshop with Dina Kelberman: “RULES! A fun time with Dina Kelberman”
18:00-21:00 | National Museum of Contemporary Art – EMST
Symposium: “Shadow Libraries”

Sunday 18 March

12:00-20:00| Exhibition Hall –1 | Onassis Stegi - Athens
“Top Tens Exhibition” and “24h Ubu screenings”
15:00-18:00 | Exhibition Hall | Onassis Stegi - Athens
Workshop with PEOPLE LIKE US (Vicki Bennett): “Exquisite Corpse” 18:00-21:00 | Onassis Library
Symposium: “Authoring in the Digital Age”
22:00-23:00 | Greek Film Archive Foundation
Audiovisual performance with PEOPLE LIKE US (Vicki Bennett): “The Mirror”

Cornelia Sollfrank: Affective archives

Kenneth Goldsmith: The ideal lecture

Credits

  • Curated by

    Ilan Manouach, Kenneth Goldsmith

  • Coordinated by

    Pasqua Vorgia

  • Produced by

    Onassis Stegi-Athens

  • Participants (talks and workshops)

    Dušan Barok, Vicki Bennett, David Desrimais, Craig Dworkin, Kenneth Goldsmith, Dina Kelberman, Marcell Mars, Tom McCarthy, Steve McLaughlin, Emily Segal, Cornelia Sollfrank, Peter Sunde, Prodromos Tsiavos

  • TopTens exhibition curated by

    Elpida Karaba

  • Participants (TopTens)

    Konstantinos Dagritzikos, Maria F. Dolores, Daphne Dragona, Enterprise Projects, Sozita Goudouna, hiboux architecture & Alkis Hadjiandreou, Marika Konstantinidou, Jenny Kountouri Tsiami, Galini Notti, Danae Stefanou

  • Algorithmic selection for 24h Ubu designed by

    Heracles Papatheodorou

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