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 jampacked exhibition revives Knowless poem on an oldschool dotmatrix printer and includes related ephemera including a film by Allan Kaprow The show also highlights forebears of Knowless aleatory composition with a nevercompleted book by Mallarmé whose pages could be reordered at will as well as Marcel Broodthaers 1969 homage to it There are also successors Nicholas Knights intricate paintings of overlapping colored curves were generated by an algorithm and Katarzyna Krakowiaks audio piece remixes Knowless original poem into skittering musique concrète