It is here! it's here!

Ubuweb has returned!
I have been longing for the return of this artist archive all summer. the past few weeks i have been mentally pacing. Checking the page everyday for updates hoping that today would be the day. go there now! read it, watch it. explore ,explore, explore. get comfortable and spend as much as time as you can sifting through tons of artist films, sounds, writings......artworks! so many to experience. It has changed how i look at the approaches of my own works. What a great spot.

Pt. 2 of this blog revolves around ubuweb in a weird manner. I was lucky enough to have seen a piece by Simon Morris at the Sleeper Gallery this past weekend. The regular white cube environment of the cellar, a decompression chamber from the hubub of cars passing by. The space had a been filled with the scattered signs of language. dismantled from any context and strewn about the space as a loop casts light upon the small hills and valleys of adjectives, nouns, and adverbs. A car comes racing along the road careening towards you. At the closest possible moment an explosion of printed text blasts from the open window and in a flurry they settle around those there to documnent the event. Upstairs a touch screen interactive piece is displayed in stainless steel like casing. On the screen a series of words randomly generated pop up in the place of text form and appear to create a very real legible text. i mean , it is real text. they do begin to assume sentence structure in appearance, however they are meaningless in there communication. His interactive re writing of freuds interpretation of dreams and accompanying publication was the center piece. a brilliant work. simple elegant. as the viewer participant you could touch one of three buttons of the touch screen. 'play' set the random generator (programmed by his wife he told me) pulling parts of texts from the tome. It then reassembled them in a page format like that of a book. The next button allowed 'you' to touch 'pause' doing just that pausing the piece in its selection process and letting the viewer to read the progress so far. The third action is 'print' giving a print out of the collection of words that appear on the screen. The assembling of the words give the participant something to try to decipher , but it is meaningless. the next step for simon is getting the reconstruction of the deconstructed text published.
I enjoyed it thoroughly.
In oru discussion we began to talk about the use of text in our works and he mentioned another one of his works inspired by an artist that one can find on....UBUWEB. our discussion continued around the topic of Kenneth Goldsmith and was a very interesting concept for a piece that i will have to find and read.
so there you have it. have a good night and a better tomorrow.
L8R