UbuWeb, the 20-year-old website that collects the forgotten and the unfamiliar

Nice to see an archive of old art presented for the love of it, however the selection is rather eccentric and the navigation bespoke.

IMHO some modern discovery features such as tag clouds, multi-category ontologies or a custom search could really keep eyeballs, especially since huge numbers of recent uploads are films and the collection spans other media.

Then again, the site's own aesthetic seems to be anti-fluff, so perhaps that's supposed to be part of the attraction.

Ubuweb was my go to resource when I was getting my MA in poetry. Not sure if some of the work is still on there (content rotates in and out), but I got to know the work of bp nichol on there. He was a poet that I think would appeal to the HN crowd. In addition to his sound poetry and concrete poetry, he was an early digital poet, and his piece _First Screening_ is available via emulation and reproduction here: http://vispo.com/bp/introduction.htm

ubuweb is a fantastically deep and broad archive with resources often hard to find elsewhere. check out the films section [1]- i feel any site with laurie anderson, alvin lucier, cory arcangel, and kenneth anger for free deserves your love and support.

[1] http://www.ubu.com/film/

Few know it hosts the single greatest artistic accomplishment by any human being on this solar system or any other: The Man Within[1] by Sean Landers, perhaps the finest human being in our time.

[1] http://ubu.com/sound/landers.html