Calendars:XPUB/XPUB Calendar/03-11-2025 -Event 1

XPUB1: SI #28 – week 6 in the Aquarium WH.4.115✅

Roles

• Producer: Robin
• Hosts: Daan,Tommi, Luca, Lea, Ema

Monday 3 November

• 10:00 - 11:00: Radio Broadcast Those with assigned roles at Radio WORM Studio, the others at school (aquarium) to listen
• 11:15 - 13:00: Broadcast debrief / discussion
• 13:00 - 14:00: Lunch break
• 14:00 - 15:00: Afternoon session: in which cut-up translates to computer software
  

We will be looking at:
Alison Knowles – House of Dust (1967) – on line version– https://nickm.com/memslam/the_house_of_dust.html
Intro to Alison Knowles' House of Dust (for context): https://fonderiedarling.org/depliant%20house%20of%20dust%20complet%20EN.pdf Maud Jacquin and Sébastien Pluot – House of Dust Journal (2016)
https://monoskop.org/images/1/15/Knowles_Alison_The_House_of_Dust_Research_Journal_2016.pdf
Here is an example of output generated by Alison Knowles’ House of Dust (1967)
"A HOUSE OF WOOD
UNDER WATER
USING NATURAL LIGHT
INHABITED BY FRIENDS

A HOUSE OF LEAVES
IN A METROPOLIS
USING ALL AVAILABLE LIGHTING
INHABITED BY ALL RACES OF MAN REPRESENTED WEARING PREDOMINANTLY RED CLOTHING

A HOUSE OF ROOTS
IN AN OVERPOPULATED AREA
USING ELECTRICITY
INHABITED BY HORSES AND BIRDS…

A HOUSE OF WOOD
IN A METROPOLIS
USING ELECTRICITY
INHABITED BY FRIENDS AND ENEMIES"

Lejaren Hiller (pictured) and John Cage wrote their harpsichord, tape and computer work HPSCHD in 1967-69

We will also be dipping into Lillian-Yvonne Bertram and Nick Montford – Output – an anthology of computer generated Text 1953-2023

Steve will talk briefly about the links between cybernetics, the Fluxus art movement and (media) ecology

• 15:15-17:00 work on writing machines and/or annotations; preparation for the Worm event, A Mazing Machines.