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    # Ubu@50 - 50Ubus **BUDGET**: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1xxVKQtltsebKj8JgyNwYSAo0IfFi2DxsYjDQBH8LTYQ/edit#gid=0 **DESCRIPTION** UbuWeb (abbr. Ubu) is the most comprehensive and important online archive of avant-garde art. Containing over 100.000 works of concrete poetry, sound art, video art, film, criticism and art theory, it is an indispensable resource for students and scholars across the world. Ubu was created in 1996 by the conceptual poet Kenneth Goldsmith, who continues to expand archive still today. In 2021 Ubu is turning 25. For anything digital, susceptible to digital rot and myriad of legal constraints, that is a momentous achievement. With an virtual exhibition, a conference and a publication titled "Ubu's 50th — 50 Ubus", the curatorial collective Custodians.online plans to mark that anniversary and wish it longevity. Continuing our previous collaboration with Kenneth Goldsmith, with "Ubu's 50th" we will look back to Ubu's history and look forward to its future. The project will revisit what made it possible for Ubu to make the impact it has made and to remain sustainable while being legally and technologically so precarious. It will also consider what might make it resilient to remain online for the next 25 years. 1. Virtual exhibition / conference In 2023 we plan to organise an international conference in Zagreb with eight speakers who will be invited to reflect on four methodological aspects of Ubu: the avant-garde, intellectual property, technological resilience and autonomous custodianship. The conference will also double as an online exhibition. Each speaker will select one or more time-based works from Ubu's archive, which will be accessible for online viewing immediately before the stream of their talk. The exhibition will be accessible for the duration of the conference, while the recorded talks will remain available for later viewing. 2. Experimental publication: Mirror Ubu In 2022, in the runup to the conference/exhibition, we will create an experimental publication that will include commissioned texts and comments, reflecting on the past twenty-five years of Ubu's activity. The publication will be written, edited and rendered on the publishing platform Sandpoints. Sandpoints will be custom-developed for specific needs of the project so that the digital version of the publication can be easily deployed on any Raspberry Pi micro-computer and integrates with the entire version of Ubu's collection on an external drive. Sandpoints facilitates easy collective writing and editing of text that is then automatically rendered into a website (which can also be copied onto a USB disk and used offline) and into a well-designed PDF publication, allowing it to function both as a direct-to-digital and on-demand print publishing tool. As an additional feature, all references used in a text come included as a library collection in the Sandpoints publication itself. Sandpoints was previously used to create a Pirate Care Syllabus (https://syllabus.pirate.care), a Machine Listening Curriculum and an issue of the Nubian studies journal Dotawo (https://pages.sandpoints.org/dotawo/issue/), three successful experimental publishing projects. # Konferencija: Ubu@50 :: 50 Ubus - Archive after Archive / Ubu@50 :: 50 Ubua - Arhiviranje arhiva Molekula, Dvorana Filodrammatica, 10. travnja, 18-21h Sudjeluju: Dušan Barok, Olga Goriunova, Srećko Horvat, Felix Stalder, Alessandro Ludovico, Aleksandra Savanović i Nick Thoburn Moderiraju: Tomislav Medak & Marcell Mars Konferencija Međunarodna konferencija u Zagrebu s osam istaknutih teoretičarki, povjesničarki i arhivista digitalne avangarde reflektirat će o četiri metodološka aspekta Ubua: avangarda, intelektualno vlasništvo, tehnološka otpornost i skrb za građu i arhiv. S Ubu@50 pitamo se kako bi treba izgledati budućnost koja bi omogućila da Ubu i drugi autonomni digitalni arhivi opstanu narednih četvrt stoljeća. Kakvu budućnost možemo zamisliti za avangarde u uvjetima sveprisutnih digitalnih infrastruktura, intenzivne primjene umjetne inteligencije i tehnoloških odgovora na društvene i ekološke krize? I obratno, kakvu budućnost možemo zamisliti za društva iz rakursa održivog korištenja tehnologija, radikalnih avangardnih gesti i zajedničkih dobara kakvo su nastajali u digitalnoj kulturi u prethodnih četvrt stoljeća? UbuWeb (ubu.com) najveći je mrežni arhiv avangardne umjetnosti. UbuWeb je prije dvije godine navršio 25. rođendan. Otkako je interneta kao globalnog masovnog medija, američki konceptualni umjetnik Kenneth Goldsmith sâm, koristeći rudimentarni HTML kôd i ne pitajući za dopuštenje, skupljao je, organizirao i davao pristup inače teško dostupnim djelima eksperimentalnog filma, video umjetnosti, suvremenog kazališta, konceptualne poezije i konkretne glazbe. Godinama prije no što su muzeji i arhivi suvremene umjetnosti počeli digitalizirati građu iz svojih depoa, Ubu je bio mjesto otkrivanja važnih djela kulturne povijesti i potencijalno kulturne budućnosti. Međutim, u vremenima digitalnih platformi, nadzora i restrikcija intelektualnog vlasništva dragocjeni arhivi poput Ubua mogu nestati preko noći. Mogu prestati jer često ovise o jednom čovjeku. Tako je i Kenneth Goldsmith s početkom 2024. obustavio s dodavanjem novih sadržaja i zaključio rad na njemu. Sada je red na digitalnim arhivistima da arhiviraju arhiv. Prije konferencije održat će se petodnevni seminar u gradu Cresu. U Palači Moise po drugi put okupit će jedanaest sudionika koji će tijekom pet dana raditi na hibridnoj publikaciji sagledavajući kako bi trebala izgledati bliska budućnost koja bi omogućila da Ubu i drugi autonomni digitalni arhivi opstanu narednih četvrt stoljeća. Publikacija će se dalje razvijati kroz niz aktivnosti tijekom 2023. i biti zaključno predstavljena izložbom i mini-konferencijom. # Ubu s pedeset - Ubu na pedeset **OPIS** Ubuweb (krat. Ubu) je najopsežniji i najvažniji internetski arhiv avangardne umjetnosti. Arhiv sadrži preko 100.000 djela konkretne poezije, zvukovne umjetnosti, video umjetnosti, filma, kritike i teorije umjetnosti i neizostavan je resurs za studente i znanstvenike diljem svijeta. Ubu je 1996. kreirao konceptualni pjesnik Kenneth Goldsmith, koji i dan danas radi na proširivanju arhiva. Ove, 2021. godine, Ubu navršava 25 godina postojana. Za nešto što živi na digitalnim mrežama — podložno "digitalnom propadanju" (en. digital rot) i mnoštvu zakonskih ograničenja — to je gigantsko postignuće. Virtualnom izložbom, konferencijom i publikacijom pod naslovom "Ubu s pedeset - Ubu na pedeset", planiramo obilježiti tu obljetnicu i zaželiti Ubuu dugi vijek. Nastavljajući našu prethodnu suradnju s Kennethom Goldsmithom, "Ubu s pedeset" osvrnut će se na povijest i na budućnost Ubua. Projekt će sagledati što je Ubuu omogućilo da ima takav utjecaj kakav ima i da ostane održiv četvrt stoljeća unatoč tome što djeluje u pravno i tehnološki nesigurnom terenu. Također, razmotrit će što bi ga moglo učiniti dovoljno otpornim da ostane dostupan i narednih 25 godina. U sklpu aktivnosti programa "Javna knjižnica" u 2022. planiramo napraviti eksperimentalni publikaciju i izložbu o Ubuu: 1. Virtualna izložba / konferencija Međunarodna konferencija u Zagrebu s osam izlagača koji će biti pozvani da reflektiraju o četiri metodološka aspekta Ubua: avangarda, intelektualno vlasništvo, tehnološka otpornost i skrb za građu i arhiv. Konferencija će ujedno biti i mrežna izložba. Svaki govornik će odabrati jedno ili više audio/-vizualnih djela iz Ubuove arhive, koji će postati dostupni na stranicama projekta neposredno prije internetskog prijenosa njihovog izlaganja. Izložba će biti dostupna tijekom trajanja konfernecije, dok će snimljena izlaganja ostati dostupna za kasnije pregledavanje. 2. Eksperimentalna publikacija: Mirror Ubu Kao pripremu za konferenciju/izložbu kreirat ćemo eksperimentalnu mrežnu i tiskanu publikaciju koja će sadržavati naručene tekstove i komentare, s osvrtima na prethodnih 25 godina Ubuovog djelovanja. Publikacija će biti pisana, uređivana i objavljena pomoću softverske izdavačke platforme Sandpoints. Sandpoints će se posebno prilagoditi specifičnim potrebama projekta, i to tako da će se digitalna verzija publikacije lako moći prebaciti na mikro-računalo Raspberry Pi i uključivati čitavu kolekciju Ubua na vanjskom disku. Platforma Sandpoints omogućuje jednostavno kolektivno pisanje i uređivanje teksta koji se automatski konvertira u mrežne stranice (koje se mogu kopirati i na USB disk i tako koristiti koristiti offline) i u dobro oblikovanu PDF publikaciju, čime funkcionira kao izdavačka alatka za direktno objavljivanje u digitalnom obliku i za objavljivanje tiskanih publikacija na zahtjev (print on demand). Kao dodatna funkcija, sve reference u nekom tekstu uključene su u knjižničnu zbirku koja je dio same Sandpoints publikacije. Sandpoints se prethodno razvijao i prilagođavao za Silabus piratske skrbi (https://syllabus.pirate.care), Kurikulum o strojevima koji prisluškuju (Machine Listening Curriculum, https://machinelistening.exposed/curriculum/) i zadnji broj časopisa nubijskih studija Dotawo ("Nubian Studies Journal — Dotawo", https://pages.sandpoints.org/dotawo/issue/), tri vrlo uspjela eksperimentalna izdavačka projekta. # Pismo Felixu i Nicku Dear Felix, dear Nick, this is a double invitation. Firstly, we are writing to invite you to edit with us an experimental publication titled "Ubu@50 — 50Ubus" that starts from a speculative premise what would it entail for UbuWeb to live to see its fiftieth anniversary? The immediate motivation comes from the fact that last year UbuWeb has celebrated its twenty-fifth and that for its twentieth we, that is Felix and Marcell, wrote a happy birthday letter (https://custodians.online/ubu/), set up a mirror at a server of the Zurich Academy of Arts as a gift, and that we continuously keep developing infrastructural components to keep it going. The occasion is that throughout this last part of 2022 and the entire 2023 we want to organise a couple of writing retreats and seminars, an experimental publication that will include an interface to the entire UbuWeb collection, and a conceptual exhibition consisting of that publication. However, UbuWeb is here a pretext for speculative, future-oriented thinking on topics that follow from UbuWeb's mere existence, such as avant-garde, technological resilience, intellectual property, commons-oriented custodianship... Working with you we want to develop these issues and detect people whom we could ask to contribute writing or interviews to unpack them. We have selected the two of you as we think you are perfect for this endeavour — and we are keen on working with you together on speculating about the future. This would be largely low-intensity work over the next couple of months, with the four us meeting online once a month to bring to the table topics and interesting references and then to discuss whose contributions we could seek. The methodology we would propose to use is writing on Sandpoints, an experimental publishing tool that Marcell developed initially for our Pirate Care Syllabus (https://syllabus.pirate.care), and subsequently used, for example, by Liquid Architecture for their hybrid conference/curriculum on Machine Listening (https://machinelistening.exposed) or by Dotawo - A Journal of Nubian Studies for an issue (https://pages.sandpoints.org/dotawo/journal/). Sandpoints' principal features are that it creates a three-tier hierarchy of parent-child documents that can be collectively written in Markdown using a versioning system; that it integrates a Memory of the World-style library where all referenced texts can be stored in a standalone offline-ready webapp catalog and then cited in Chichago Manual of Style; and that it automatically generates a website and a PDF. We have spent some time thinking what would be the good a hierachy triad and ended up with a mirror as the leitmotif which compiles from reflections that reflect on shards. Shard is thought of as a building block, a note, something you can bring quicker into Sandpoints knowing it might never be addressed and discussed in a reflection. Something like that. The proposed triad is not definitive but we feel it could be a good start. Our initial formalisation of Sandpoints was that it is a tool to annotate on top of a library or an archive, and this would be an approach we would propose to take. We would first use it to aggregate references and annotations that we would bring to our meetings and then use it to publish interviews and written contributions. In the last step, it would serve as an interface for a mirror of UbuWeb, or rather a publication written on top of UbuWeb collection. This would be the object we would exhibit in the gallery and an electronic publication running on a Raspberry Pi and disk that we would offer to distribute to people and institutions we care about and them caring about Ubu. Also, to anyone else who pays, and we trust, for the cost of hardware. Secondly, we got some public funding for this project, therefore we also have some activities planned in Croatia. On November 29th we are kicking off the project with a small launch event in Zagreb that will include a discussion and Vicki Bennett's performance, and then moving on the 30th down to the island of Cres for a writing retreat to which we would like to invite you too. The retreat would last until December 4th. We are promising a couple of convivial working days at a quiet period on this island. For the time being, you would be commiting to editorial meetings that will also double as our own small speculative, future-oriented reading circle, and to the writing retreat if you can make it. If you would up for this, we should ideally meet online in October and in November to lay the framework for the first round of written contributions. If you would up for this, we could offer a net fee of 1.000€ and cover your travel, subsistence and accommodation expenses. Let us know what you think, Marcell & Tom # Pismo Vicki Bennett - POSLANO Dear Vicki, I'm writing to invite you for a performance within the launch event of a project we have titled "Ubu @50 - 50 Ubus". The immediate motivation comes from the fact that the last year UbuWeb celebrated its twenty-fifth anniversary, that and we would like to speculate what larger societal transformations it would take to allow Ubu to live to its fiftieth anniversary. The project is a form of future-oriented thinking starting from the archive of the avant-garde that is UbuWeb. It's a tribute to UbuWeb, to pirate archives, to the future they let us imagine. For the launch we wanted to organise a smaller seminar that would culminate in an evening double-bill session with you and Kenneth. We are open to suggestions how to conceive the session between you and Kenneth. The dates we are aiming for are the latter part of November, Kenneth is available November 18-30. We would like to organise it in the Zagreb Museum of Contemporary Art, which is somewhat contingent on the dates, so we would like to have a bit of flexibility with the dates. We could offer a net fee of 1000€ and cover your travel, accommodation and subsistence costs. If this seems interesting and the conditions are right, let us know what dates between November 18 and 30 would work for you. Best, Marcell # Pismo za sudionike seminara Dear ... we would like to invite you to a writing retreat on the island of Cres with a project we have titled "Ubu @50 - 50 Ubus". The retreat would take place November 30 - December 4, with a potential layover in Zagreb on the 29th and departure on the 4th. The immediate motivation for the writing retreat comes from the fact that last year UbuWeb celebrated its 25th anniversary, and we would like to speculate what larger societal transformations would take to allow Ubu to live to its fiftieth anniversary. The project is a form of future-oriented thinking starting from an archive of the avant-garde that is UbuWeb. UbuWeb is here a pretext for speculative thinking on topics that follow from UbuWeb's mere existence such as avant-garde, technological resilience, intellectual property, commons-oriented custodianship... It's a tribute to UbuWeb, to pirate archives, to the future they let us imagine. For the writing retreat, we would like you to contribute your writing and references to an experimental publication that will eventually integrate, as an interface, the entire UbuWeb collection and be distributed on a Raspberry Pi with a large hard drive — the twist being that this electronic book is an Ubu mirror, thus helping disseminate Ubu. For the writing and references, we will be using a methodology that involves a collective writing/publishing tool called "Sandpoints", which we have developed for our Pirate Care Syllabus, and could be understood as a tool for writing on top of an archive or a library. If you decide to arrive to Zagreb on the 29th, there will be a kick-off event with a discussion and a performance by Vicki Bennett/People Like Us. If you can't make it on the 29th, we are proposing that we all converge either in Zagreb or Rijeka on the 30th and go for four days to a cultural centre at a palace on the island of Cres. We would cover all the travel, accommodation and subsistence expenses and a net fee of 500€. Best, Marcell & Tom # NAJAVA ZA DOGAĐANJE U MSU # Ubu@50 - budućnosti digitalne avangarde Muzej suvremene umjetnosti, utorak, 29.11. u 19h - glazbeno-filmski performans umjetnice People Like Us: "Ogledalo" - razgovor: Vicki Bennett, Olga Goriunova i Marcell Mars (moderira Tomislav Medak) Pozivamo vas na glazbeno-filmski performans "Ogledalo" umjetnice People Like Us i razgovor o budućnostima digitalne avangarde kojim započinjemo aktivnosti projekta Ubu@50 – 50 Ubua. **Ogledalo** je psihodelični i evokativni glazbeno-filmski kolaž nastao iz stotina igranih filmova polazeći od ideje da je kamera svjetlo koje obasjava tamu i oko koje promatra ljude u njihovoj samoći. Konceptualni *soundtrack* nastao iz stotina glazbenih hitova ugledni je časopis The Wire uvrstio u 10 najvažnijih albuma 2019. godine. **UbuWeb** (ubu.com) najveći je mrežni arhiv avangardne umjetnosti. Ubu je netom navršio 25. obljetnicu postojanja. Otkako je interneta kao globalnog masovnog medija, američki konceptualni umjetnik Kenneth Goldsmith sâm, koristeći najjednostavniji HTML kôd i ne pitajući za dopuštenje, skuplja, organizira i daje pristup inače teško dostupnim djelima eksperimentalnog filma, video umjetnosti, suvremenog kazališta, konceptualne poezije i konkretne glazbe. Godinama prije no što su muzeji i arhivi suvremene umjetnosti počeli digitalizirati građu iz svojih depoa, Ubu je bio mjesto otkrivanja važnih djela kulturne povijesti i potencijalno kulturne budućnosti. Međutim, u vremenima digitalnih platformi, nadzora i kontrole intelektualnog vlasništva dragocjeni arhiv poput Ubua može nestati preko noći. S Ubu@50 pitamo se kako bi treba izgledati budućnost koja bi omogućila da Ubu i drugi autonomni digitalni arhivi opstanu narednih četvrt stoljeća. Kakvu budućnost možemo zamisliti za avangarde u uvjetima sveprisutnih digitalnih infrastruktura, intenzivne primjene umjetne inteligencije i tehnoloških odgovora na društvene i ekološke krize? I obratno, kakvu budućnost možemo zamisliti za društva iz održivog korištenja tehnologija, radikalnih avangardnih gesti i zajedničkih dobara kakvo su nastajali u digitalnoj kulturi u prethodnih četvrt stoljeća? **Vicki Bennett / People Like Us** britanska je umjetnica koja od početka 1990-ih radi u polju audio-vizualnog kolaža aproprirajući postojeće snimke u mračan i duhovit komentar na popularnu kulturu. Bennett smatra sempliranje i kolaž folklornom umjetnošću koja se koristi paletom suvremenih medija i tehnologija i kojoj je kao populitičkoj formi svojstveno dijeljenje i refencijalnost. Pretpostavka njenog djela je da je sve međusobno povezano i da tražiti vlasništvo nad "originalnim" ili izoliranim konceptom je smiješno i suvišno. Bennett je prva umjetnica koja je dobila neograničen pristup čitavom BBC-evom arhivu, a kao People Like Us izlagala je i izvodila u muzejima i na festivalima kao što su Tate Modern, Barbican, Sydney Opera House, Royal Albert Hall, Pompidou Centre, Venice Biennale i Sonar. Nastupala je u radijskim emisijama John Peel Sessions i Mixing It, a uređuje je emisiju "DO or DIY" na mrežnom radiju WFMU. Čitav katalog People Like Us dostupan je na UbuWebu. **Olga Goriunova** kulturologinja je sa sveučilišta Royal Holloway. Tijekom 2000-ih kurirala je festivale softverske umjetnosti "Readme" (Moskva 2002., Helsinki 2003., Aarhus 2004., Dortmund 2005.) i sudjelovala u pokretanju repozitorija softverske umjetnosti Runme.org. Organizirala je 2010. i međunarodnu izložbu "Funware" u bristolskoj galeriji Arnolfini. U svom interdisciplinarnom istraživačkom radu povezuje teorije računarstva, umjetnosti i knjiženosti s filozofijom. Zanimaju je procesi subjektiviranja u kontekstu tehnologija i estetike, kao i mišljenje izvan okvira ljudskog i posthumanističke ekologije. Interese svog ranijeg medijsko-umjetničkog rada povezuje s problematikom digitalne apstrakcije subjekta, preispitujući što se događa s ljudskim bićem – markiranim rodom i rasom – u mrežnim kulturama. **Marcell Mars** jedan je od pokretača Multimedijalnog instituta/MAMA. Njegov istraživački projekt "Ruling Class Studies", koji je započeo na Jan van Eyck Academy (2011.), preispituje digitalne inovacije, doprinose slobodnom softveru i strategije koju razvijaju korporacije poput Googlea, Amazona i Facebooka. Zajedno s Tomislavom Medakom vodi "knjižnicu iz sjene" Memory of the World, za koju razvija i održava softversku infrastrukturu. _Ubu@50 – 50 Ubua_ dio je programa Javna knjižnica. Uz potporu Ministarstv kulture i medija te Kreativne Europe. # Ubu@50 - Futures of Digital Avant-Garde Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb, November 29th, 19hrs - immesrive audio-visual performance _The Mirror_ by People Like Us - discussion: Vicki Bennett, Olga Goriunova & Marcell Mars (moderira Tomislav Medak) We are inviting you to the immersive cinematic performance **_The Mirror_** by People Like Us and a discussion on the futures of digital avant-garde kicking off the activities of the _Ubu@50 – 50 Ubus_ project. _The Mirror_ is an audio-visual collage created from hundreds of feature movies, guided by the idea that the camera is a torch that shines light down dark corridors and an eye that watches people when they are alone. The conceptually related soundtrack, accompanying the performance, was selected as one of the best ten albums in the 2019 annual critics poll by The Wire. **UbuWeb** (ubu.com) is arguably the largest web archive of avant-garde art. Ubu has recently turned 25. For about the same time the Internet has been a mass medium on a global scale, the US American conceptual artist Kenneth Goldsmith has alone, using the simplest HTML code, asking no permissions, collected, organized and made available to anyone otherwise inaccessible works of experimental cinema, video art, contemporary theatre and conrete music. Years before museums and archives had started to digitize the collections from their vaults, Ubu made possible a discovery of works that have played an important role in cultural history, or could play in the future. However, in these times of digital platforms, dataveillance and copyright control valuable archives such as Ubu can disappear overnight. With _Ubu@50_ we want to open a debate on what are the future developments that would allow for Ubu and other autonomous digital archives to persist and thrive for another quarter of a century. What futures can we imagine for the avant-garde starting from the ubiquity of digital infrastructures, intesive application of artificial intelligence and priviledging of technological responses to social and environmental crises? And in turn, what futures can we imagine for societies starting from the resilient use of technologies, radical avant-garde gestures and practices of commoning that were achieved through digital cultures over the last quarter of a century? **Vicki Bennett / People Like Us** is a British artist working across the field of audio-visual collage, repurposing pre-existing footage to craft audio and video collages with an equally dark and witty take on popular culture. She sees sampling and collage as folk art sourced from the palette of contemporary media and technology, with all of the sharing and cross-referencing incumbent to a populist form. Embedded in her work is the premise that all is interconnected and that claiming ownership of an “original” or isolated concept is both preposterous and redundant. In 2006 she was the first artist to be given unrestricted access to the entire BBC Archive. People Like Us have previously shown work at Tate Modern, The Barbican,, Sydney Opera House, Royal Albert Hall, Pompidou Centre, Venice Biennale and Sonar, and performed radio sessions for John Peel and Mixing It. The People Like Us back catalogue is available for free download hosted by UbuWeb. **Olga Goriunova** is a cultural theorist and a professor in the Media Arts Department at Royal Holloway, University of London. In the 2000s she has curated Readme software art festivals (Moscow 2002, Helsinki 2003, Aarhus 2004, Dortmund 2005), a co-organized the software art repository Runme.org and an international exhibition Funware that was first shown in Arnolfini gallery in Bristol. In her interdisciplinary research she draws on theories of computation, art and literature as well as philosophy. She is interested in the processes of subjectivation in relation to technology and aesthetics, but also in thinking beyond the human, in terms of posthuman ecologies. My earlier work in media art is linked to my newest interests in the digital abstractions of the subject through an interest in what happens to the human – gendered and racialised - in networked cultures. **Marcell Mars** is one of the founders of Multimedia Institute/MAMA in Zagreb. His research Ruling Class Studies, started at the Jan van Eyck Academy (2011), examines state-of-the-art digital innovation, adaptation, and intelligence created by corporations such as Google, Amazon, Facebook, and eBay. He is a doctoral student at Digital Cultures Research Lab at Leuphana University, writing a thesis on Foreshadowed Libraries. Together with Tomislav Medak he founded Memory of the World/Public Library, for which he develops and maintains software infrastructure. _Ubu@50 – 50 Ubua_ is part of Multimedia Institute's Public Library programme. Organized with the support by the Ministry of Culture and Creative Europe. # Tech rider - stol po strani platna sa svjetlom niskog intenziteta - dva CD miksera - mikseta, izlaz iz miksete - DI boksevi - izlaz iz laptopa koji je na stolu na projektor

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