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Jurn: a Google custom search for academic online journals

By L ( Elizabeth ) Lawes, on 4 February 2009

JurnJurn is a new Google ‘custom search engine’ for searching the content of free, full-text, academic e-journals listed on the Intute Arts & Humanities website. Intute is an online service providing access to quality web resources, selected and evaluated by a network of subject specialists, and Jurn has been created by one of their contributors. The 1500+ journals mostly cover the areas of art, media, film, literature, cultural studies, plus cultural history and design, and they can be searched by keyword using Jurn.

New on UbuWeb

By L ( Elizabeth ) Lawes, on 2 February 2009

Francis Alys: When faith moves mountainsFrancis Alÿs: When faith moves mountains: a 15 minute film from 2002 when 500 volunteers formed a line in order to move a sand dune situated in the surroundings of the city of Lima. 

Focus on Vito Acconci: A poet of the New York school in the early- and mid-1960s, Vito Acconci (b. 1940) moved toward performance, sound, and video work by the end of the decade. Features a number of Acconci’s works, across several mediums, focusing mainly on his 1970s output.

Douglas Huebler: Variable piece 4 New York City: Secrets: PDF of a text from 1973. Also Audio works and radio interviews, 1977-78.

Robert Smithson and Nancy Holt: Mono Lake: 1968-2004, 19.54 mins. Featuring Super 8 film footage and Instamatic slide images of artists Robert Smithson, Michael Heizer and Nancy Holt as they visited California’s Mono Lake in July of 1968, this piece was edited by Holt in 2004.

UbuWeb Podcast 7: Punk Versions of Monkey Chants and Other Ethnopoetic Marvels: ‘Jerome Rothenberg-curated trove of ethnopoetic treasures, focusing on sound’.

Find Any Film

By L ( Elizabeth ) Lawes, on 2 February 2009

rembrandt.jpgbogart.jpgThis sporting life

Find Any Film is funded by the UK Film Council and aims to become ‘the UK’s most comprehensive film-watching search engine’, and ‘like a Google for films’. The site claims to find when, where and how a film is available in the UK, legally and across all formats – in cinemas, on TV (tracking over 300 channels), DVD & Blu-ray sale or rental, download, or streaming – ranging from early cinema to new releases. Search by title or browse by genre. The site includes trailers (where available) and synopses. An ‘Alert Me’ feature will automatically send out an alert when a chosen film, no matter how obscure, becomes available in the UK in a chosen format.