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The House of Dust (2021)
Directed by Alison Knowles
· 1h 28m
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.
Cast
Crew
- Director
- Alison Knowles
- Editor
- Joshua Selman
- Producer
- Joshua Selman
Details
- Release date
- 2021-06-17
- Runtime
- 1h 28m
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English
- Production
- Emily Harvey Foundation