User:Thijshijsijsjss/Gossamery/The House of Dust

• Read about it here on the bootleg library
• Recommended by Manetta, 2024-09-16 (first prototyping class of the year, after making a prototype for a small card game / collaborative story building game)

The House of Dust is an elvolving generative artwork by Alison Knowles. Originally, it is a computer generated poem, that was later turned into multiple architectural realisations deployed in several locations, each change in location transforming the work.

Art by Translation have published two texts concerned with The House of Dust, one being an exploration of the project from the perspective of translation, and the other archival and reconstructing its history. The former includes essays, for example one by Hannah B. Higgins that is also included as Chapter 12 of Mainframe Experimentalism.

Poetry in Translation

This text, published in 2016 by Art in Translation, attempts to reflect on Alison Knowles's project The House of Dust and situate it in the context of translation in art.

(reading in progress)

the House of Dust archives

TBA