The House of DustMovie
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.
About The House of Dust
The House of Dust is a 2021 movie directed by Alison Knowles.
The production information lists a runtime of 1h 28m, an original language code of EN.
The credited cast includes Alison Knowles, Jessica Higgins, Joshua Selman, Clara Joy. The synopsis above summarizes the central premise without adding details beyond the available title information.
