# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jackson-mac-low
# Generated: 2026-08-12T19:20:19.786Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jackson-mac-low"
name: "Jackson Mac Low"
slug: "jackson-mac-low"
description: "Jackson Mac Low was an American poet, performance artist, composer and playwright, known to most readers of poetry as a practitioner of systematic chance operations and other non-intentional compositional methods in his work, which Mac Low first experienced in the musical work of John Cage, Earle Brown, and Christian Wolff. He was married to the artist Iris Lezak from 1962 to 1978, and to the poet Anne Tardos from 1990 until his death."
tagline: "American poet, performance artist, composer and playwright (1922–2004)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Jackson_Mac_Low_in_2003_(photo_by_Gloria_Graham).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1922-09-12"
deathDate: "2004-12-08"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             2.142857142857143
  historical:           9.877718666666668
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1092180/"
    handle:    "nm1092180"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/maclow"
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "جاكسون ماك لو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Jackson Mac Low"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackson_Mac_Low"
    title: "Jackson Mac Low"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackson_Mac_Low"
    title: "Jackson Mac Low"
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    title: "Ջեքսոն Մակլոու"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackson_Mac_Low"
    title: "Jackson Mac Low"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackson_Mac_Low"
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    title: "Маклоу, Джексон"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump