“UbuWeb” is the internet’s largest site dedicated to the exhibition of avant-garde and related materials. The site currently features over 500 artists from dozens of countries and hosts nearly a terabyte of media materials. “UbuWeb” is dedicated to the free and unimpeded exhibition of materials that generally have had little traditional economic worth but which have great artistic and historic merit. Types of work featured are experimental music, sound poetry, concrete and visual poetry, full-length books of innovative writing, plays, ethnopoetics, outsider art and music, film and video, radio arts and a wealth of scholarly papers on these disciplines.
Most importantly, “UbuWeb” functions on no money: all the work is done by volunteers. Our server space and bandwidth is donated by several universities, who use “UbuWeb” as an object of study for ideas related to radical distribution and gift economies on the web. In terms of content, each section has an editor who brings to their area of expertise the site. “Ubu” is constantly being updated but the mission is different from the flotsam and jetsam of a blog; rather, we liken it to a library that is ever-expanding in uncanny— and often uncategorizable—directions. Twelve years into it, “UbuWeb” hosts over 500 artists and several thousand works of art. You’ll never find an advertisement, a logo, or a donation box. “UbuWeb” has always been and will always be free and open to all.

Links: http://ubu.com

UbuWeb was founded in November of 1996, initially as a repository for visual, concrete and, later, sound poetry. Over the years, UbuWeb has embraced all forms of the avant-garde and beyond. Its parameters continue to expand in all directions.