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Date
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U9747
01.01.1968
A House of Dust - Alison Knowles
Unbuilt Roads
  • The House of Dust was first a computer poem using fortran language. The quatrains are all different, each line randomly connected. The form shifting categories for the house are: the material of manufature, the locations the light source and the inhabitan ...

    The House of Dust was first a computer poem using fortran language. The quatrains are all different, each line randomly connected. The form shifting categories for the house are: the material of manufature, the locations the light source and the inhabitants after 10,000 quatrains generated there was only one repetition. It would be time now to build one. In 1968 a "sketch" house was made and destroyed and then attempt was made in California which lasted 3 years.

    Attempts have been made but the work has not really been realized.

    Previous Publications (?)

    The poem was reproduced as a print-out folder by geb. Konig Verlag in Köln in a small edition. and in Fantastic Architecture a book of Something Else Press in the late 60's

    Exisiting Documents (photos, drawings, models):

    I have slides of the Cal. Inst. of the Arts attempt

    Other remarks

    The poem won me a guggenheim grant. I often exhibit the poem + slides in museum shows.

    The House of Dust was first a computer poem using fortran language. The quatrains are all different, each line randomly connected. The form shifting categories for the house are: the material of manufature, the locations the light source and the inhabitan ...

    The House of Dust was first a computer poem using fortran language. The quatrains are all different, each line randomly connected. The form shifting categories for the house are: the material of manufature, the locations the light source and the inhabitants after 10,000 quatrains generated there was only one repetition. It would be time now to build one. In 1968 a "sketch" house was made and destroyed and then attempt was made in California which lasted 3 years.

    Attempts have been made but the work has not really been realized.

    Previous Publications (?)

    The poem was reproduced as a print-out folder by geb. Konig Verlag in Köln in a small edition. and in Fantastic Architecture a book of Something Else Press in the late 60's

    Exisiting Documents (photos, drawings, models):

    I have slides of the Cal. Inst. of the Arts attempt

    Other remarks

    The poem won me a guggenheim grant. I often exhibit the poem + slides in museum shows.