Alison Knowles (1933–2025) was an American mixed-media and performance artist.
Her invention with House of Dust in 1967 of a generative poem coded with a programmer and offered as a literary experiment was huge—a coming together of a lot of experimental approaches in the literary and art scene with a lot of the technological advancements that were also happening concurrently.
Sasha Stiles, Sasha Stiles on Writing Poets
You know, one of the great joys for me personally was meeting Sasha Stiles as an example, and introducing her to Alison Knowles, who, again, is one of the founders of Fluxus.
Michael Spalter, Michael Spalter on 1960s Computer Art