The House of Dust
In 1967, Knowles, a Fluxus artist, composed one of the first computerized poems, written in Fortran code, with randomly assembled verses. (An example: “A house of steel / Among high mountains / Using candles / Inhabited by people who sleep almost all the time.”) This significant, jam-packed exhibition revives Knowles’s poem on an old-school dot-matrix printer, and includes related ephemera, including a film by Allan Kaprow. The show also highlights forebears of Knowles’s aleatory composition, with a never-completed book by Mallarmé whose pages could be reordered at will, as well as Marcel Broodthaer’s 1969 homage to it. There are also successors: Nicholas Knight’s intricate paintings of overlapping colored curves were generated by an algorithm, and Katarzyna Krakowiak’s audio piece remixes Knowles’s original poem into skittering musique concrète.
Year: 2021
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Studio: Emily Harvey Foundation
Director: Alison Knowles
Cast: Alison Knowles, Jessica Higgins, Joshua Selman, Clara Joy, Andrew Hubert
Crew: Joshua Selman (Sound Designer), Alison Knowles (Director), Jeffrey Perkins (Cinematography), Joshua Selman (Editor), Jessica Higgins (Creative Director), Joshua Selman (Producer)
Runtime: 88 minutes
Release: Jun 17, 2021
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Language: English
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