A House of Dust

Alison Knowles
James Tenney

1967
Seimens System 4004
FORTRAN IV

In 1967, Fluxus artist Alison Knowles composed "A House of Dust", the first computer-generated poem, with randomly-assembled verses.

This variation uses collection data from the Williams College Museum of Art.

Created by Chad Weinard.
Inspired by the talk "Computational Poetics" by Lillian-Yvonne Bertram.

Code adapted from
Nick Montfort
for Memory Slam
Also: a Python 2 version

Remix on Glitch