The House of Dust (2021)
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.
Director: Alison Knowles
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Alison Knowles as Herself |
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Jessica Higgins as Herself |
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Joshua Selman as Himself |
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Clara Joy as Herself |
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Andrew Hubert as Himself |
| Directing | Alison Knowles | Director |
| Editing | Joshua Selman | Editor |
| Sound | Joshua Selman | Sound Designer |
| Art | Jessica Higgins | Creative Director |
| Production | Joshua Selman | Producer |
