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KNOWLES, A. & J. TENNEY. A House of Dust. Siemens System 4004. Köln, N.Y., Verlag Gebr. König, n.d. (c. 1969?). Poem on 9 sheets of harmonica folded pin feed paper. (305 x 377 mm). In transparant plastic envelope, w. silkscreen label in orange. (Tiny tear in lower outer corner of last sheet, but in near fine condition).
A House of Dust, a poetry project created by Fluxus artists Alison Knowles and James Tenney and the Siemens 4004 computer in 1967. An early example of a computer generated poem, creating stanzas by working through iterations of lines with changing words from a finite vocabulary list. According to N.L. Woods: "A small edition of twenty-one [?] pages of the computer printout, run off by the Siemens 4004 in 1969, was packaged in plastic sheeting with a silkscreen label and published in Cologne by Kaspar König." In: Xtra, vol. 15, nr. 1. (2012).€ 500
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