The House of Dust
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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.
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ALISON KNOWLES: THE HOUSE OF DUST (1967 / 2021)
Type: Featurette • Published 2021-07-25
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June 17, 2021
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- Director
- Alison Knowles
- Original Title
- The House of Dust
- Spoken Languages
- English
- Runtime
- 1h 28m
- Production Studios
- Emily Harvey Foundation
Creative Leadership & Key Crew
Alison Knowles
Joshua Selman
Joshua Selman
Department Leadership Roster
Alison Knowles
Director
Joshua Selman
Editor
Joshua Selman
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What is The House of Dust about?
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.
Who directed The House of Dust?
The House of Dust was directed by Alison Knowles.
Who stars in The House of Dust?
The principal cast of The House of Dust includes Alison Knowles, Jessica Higgins, Joshua Selman, Clara Joy, Andrew Hubert.
When was The House of Dust released and how long is it?
The House of Dust was released in 2021 with a total runtime of 1h 28m.