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

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

Roles

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  • Host
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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 and Cage wrote HPSCHD in 1967-69 Joseph Weizenbaum – Eliza (1966)
Will Crowther and Don Woods – Adventure (1977) in:
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 Worm event, A Mazing Machines.