Shadow Libraries: UbuWeb in Athens
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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
Introduction
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.
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
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