Art, Complexity and Uncertainty. A Conversation With David Familian

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Duncker & Humblot

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https://doi.org/10.3790/pcs.2025.1461904

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German

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14

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Familian, David

• David Familian, artist and curator. His artistic practice has influenced his diverse roles in web production for artists and institutions such as the Walker Art Center and the University of Minnesota. He has taught studio art and critical theory at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design and the San Francisco Art Institute, among other places. Since becoming the curator at the Bell Center for Art and Technology in 2008, he has curated more than 30 exhibitions, focusing on artists’ projects at the crossroads of new media, scientific innovation, and contemporary socio-political issues.
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Arregi, Arantzazu Saratxaga

• Arantzazu Saratxaga Arregi, born in 1982, is a university lecturer and philosopher. She completed her doctorate at the Hochschule für Gestaltung Karlsruhe with the thesis “Matrixial Philosophy: Towards a Trivalence Ontology”. After many years of teaching media philosophy and contemporary philosophy at various universities in Germany and Austria, as well as research stays at the German Literature Archive (Marbach), the Goethe Society (Weimar), the Academy of Fine Arts (Vienna), the Heinz von Foerster Archive (Vienna), the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (Freiburg) and the Centre Gilles Gaston Granger (Marseille), she is currently working on her habilitation thesis “A Gnoseology of Complexity: Irreversibility, Contingency and Uncertainty”. An epistemology of complex systems as theories of operational closure and a matrixial philosophy (philosophy of environmental embedding systems) are at the centre of her work. Most important publication: Matrixial Philosophy, Transcript Verlag, 2019.
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