The House of Dust (2021)

ALL 06/17/2021 (en) 88 Min
  • Release
    06/17/2021
  • Production
    Emily Harvey Foundation
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  • Original title
    The House of Dust
  • Original language
    en
  • Production Cost
  • 0.00
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Overview

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.

  1. Alison Knowles

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Joshua Selman

    Editor

  4. Joshua Selman

    Producer



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The House of Dust (2021) 88 Min

ALL 06/17/2021 (en)
  • Release 06/17/2021
  • Production
    Emily Harvey Foundation
  • Original title The House of Dust
  • en
  • Revenue0.00

Overview

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.

  1. Alison Knowles

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Joshua Selman

    Editor

  4. Joshua Selman

    Producer