
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, 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.

Alison Knowles
Herself

Jessica Higgins
Herself

Joshua Selman
Himself

Clara Joy
Herself

Andrew Hubert
Himself

Into the Meridian

The Futurist

Dyketactics

The Aqueduct of Seyssuel

Freeing The Body

Twatter

Classic Albums: Frank Zappa & The Mothers Of Invention - Freak Out!

The Petrified Forest

Maigret and the Old Lady

Liminality & Communitas

b.2402

One Second in Montreal

French Poem

The Red Bank. James Joyce: His Greek Notebooks

Elli

Sehnsucht

She's All That

Man Under Table

Nightfall

Der Schachtel