Alison Knowles / A house of dust (“A scrop of the original run...”)
Alison KNOWLES (New York, 1933)
no place, 1970 (about), 37,5x61 cm (2 sheets by 37,5x30,5 cm). One of the first examples of computer- generated poetry, based on four lists of words conceived by the artist together with composer James Tenney to describe a house: 1. Building materials, 2. The location, 3. The lighting, and 4. The inhabitants. From these lists, 220 poems were randomly generated and then transformed into a document with the help of the FORTRAN IV programming language on the Siemens System 4004 computer at the Polytechnic Institute in Brooklyn. This exemplar is an excerpt of only two sheets, made specifically in few copies by the artist, and it is annotated and signed by her in pencil on the back.
Alison KNOWLES (New York, 1933)
no place, 1970 (about), 37,5x61 cm (2 sheets by 37,5x30,5 cm). One of the first examples of computer- generated poetry, based on four lists of words conceived by the artist together with composer James Tenney to describe a house: 1. Building materials, 2. The location, 3. The lighting, and 4. The inhabitants. From these lists, 220 poems were randomly generated and then transformed into a document with the help of the FORTRAN IV programming language on the Siemens System 4004 computer at the Polytechnic Institute in Brooklyn. This exemplar is an excerpt of only two sheets, made specifically in few copies by the artist, and it is annotated and signed by her in pencil on the back.
Alison KNOWLES (New York, 1933)
no place, 1970 (about), 37,5x61 cm (2 sheets by 37,5x30,5 cm). One of the first examples of computer- generated poetry, based on four lists of words conceived by the artist together with composer James Tenney to describe a house: 1. Building materials, 2. The location, 3. The lighting, and 4. The inhabitants. From these lists, 220 poems were randomly generated and then transformed into a document with the help of the FORTRAN IV programming language on the Siemens System 4004 computer at the Polytechnic Institute in Brooklyn. This exemplar is an excerpt of only two sheets, made specifically in few copies by the artist, and it is annotated and signed by her in pencil on the back.
