29 Facts About Kenneth Goldsmith

Kenneth Goldsmith was born on 1961 and is an American poet and critic.

Kenneth Goldsmith is the founding editor of UbuWeb and an artist-in-residence at the Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing at the University of Pennsylvania, where he teaches.

Kenneth Goldsmith is a senior editor of PennSound at the University of Pennsylvania.

Kenneth Goldsmith hosted a weekly radio show at WFMU from 1995 until June 2010.

Kenneth Goldsmith published 32 books including ten books of poetry, notably Fidget, Soliloquy, Day and his American trilogy, The Weather, Traffic, and Sports, 'Seven American Deaths and Disasters, and 'Capital: New York Capital of the Twentieth Century.

Kenneth Goldsmith was the author of three books of essays, Uncreative Writing: Managing Language in the Digital Age, Wasting Time on The Internet, and Duchamp Is My Lawyer: The Polemics, Pragmatics, and Poetics of UbuWeb.

Notable addressees of Kenneth Goldsmith's work include those of the literary critics Marjorie Perloff, Craig Dworkin, Sianne Ngai, Robert Archambeau, and Johanna Drucker, as well as poets Bruce Andrews, Christian Bok, Darren Wershler-Henry, Christine Wertheim and Caroline Bergvall.

Kenneth Goldsmith has had numerous collaborations with musicians and composers.

In 1993, Kenneth Goldsmith embarked on a collaboration with avant-garde vocalist Joan La Barbara, resulting in a CD and book 73 Poems published by Brooklyn's Permanent Press.

In 2004, Kenneth Goldsmith released a CD with People Like Us called Nothing Special and has done many radio performances with Vicki Bennett.

Kenneth Goldsmith has collaborated with musician David Grubbs with texts from Fidget.

Kenneth Goldsmith has written about experimental music on the article A Popular Guide to Unpopular Music and has curated many musical events and compact discs.

Kenneth Goldsmith was a musical curator for the Whitney Museum of American Art's The American Century, Part 2, which included 73 Poems.

In 2009, Kenneth Goldsmith co-curated the exhibition Intermission: Films From a Heroic Future at the Canadian Centre for Architecture.

From July 26 to August 31,2013, Kenneth Goldsmith curated a conceptual art project called Printing out the Internet in collaboration with LABOR and UbuWeb, that invited the public to print and send pages from the Internet to an art gallery in Mexico City, with the intention to literally print out the entire Internet.

Kenneth Goldsmith dedicated the exhibition to Aaron Swartz, an Internet activist who committed suicide while facing federal charges of illegally downloading and disseminating millions of files from the digital library JSTOR.

The exhibition created by the American poet and artist Kenneth Goldsmith is displayed from May 9,2019, until November 24,2019, curated by Francesco Urbano Ragazzi.

In 2022, Kenneth Goldsmith premiered "Retyping a Library," a monumental new intervention for the gallery on the ground floor of Kunstnernes Hus in Oslo.

Kenneth Goldsmith teaches at the University of Pennsylvania's English Department.

On May 11,2011, Kenneth Goldsmith was featured at President and Mrs Obama's celebration of American poetry at the White House.

Kenneth Goldsmith read works by Walt Whitman and Hart Crane, as well as from his work Traffic.

Kenneth Goldsmith's tenure included a series called, Uncontested Spaces: Guerilla Readings, in the MoMA Galleries where, as part of his Poet Laureate program, writers were invited to choose works in MoMA's collection, develop a response, and then select a space in the Museum galleries in which to perform the resulting readings and texts.

Every Friday, from January to July 2013, Kenneth Goldsmith himself contributed readings in the galleries.

Kenneth Goldsmith was awarded the 2016 Prix d'Honneur from the Festival international du livre d'art et du film in Perpignan, France.

From 16 to 18 March 2018, Kenneth Goldsmith was honored by a symposium at the Onassis Cultural Center in Athens, Shadow Libraries: UbuWeb in Athens, which included symposia, performances and exhibitions.

Kenneth Goldsmith was named the 2020 recipient of the Prix Francois-Morellet for Duchamp Is My Lawyer: The Polemics, Poetics, and Pragmatics of UbuWeb.

In July 2021, Kenneth Goldsmith's UbuWeb was selected by The United States Library of Congress for inclusion in the historic collection of Internet materials.

Kenneth Goldsmith was awarded the 2024 Le prix d'honneur of the Prix international de litterature Bernard Heidsieck from the Centre Pompidou in Paris.

On March 13,2015, Kenneth Goldsmith read his poem "The Body of Michael Brown" at the "Interrupt 3" event at Brown University.