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ABOUT THE PANELISTS:

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The authors have each known and worked with Arakawa and Gins for decades and are currently co-authoring a book with the title, Another Way of Knowing.

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Don Byrd is a poet and a nervous observer of an overcrowded Earth, where the evolution of complex intelligence has been displaced by generalizations for forty millennia or more. He is Professor Emeritus of the State University of New York in Albany where he taught literature for 42 years, publishing poetry, essays and books including The Great Dimestore Centennial (1986), a book-length poem, and The Poetics of the Common Knowledge (1994).  ​​

Alan Prohm PhD is an artist, scholar and educator living in Berlin. His researches in the spatiality of knowing and meaning led him to the work of Arakawa and Gins, which he has taught in art and design contexts since 2004.  WithThe BodyBuilding Project (2007/2014), the Reading Room exhibition (2008) and his ongoing built poem, The Tubular Loom since 2011, he has explored procedurality in practice. A speaker at the previous A+G conferences (2005, 2008, 2010) and at the funeral for Madeline Gins in 2014, he organized the 4-Day event The Proceeding Procedure and published 2-issues of Procedures journal. ​​

Jondi Keane PhD is an artist and independent scholar. Since 1981, he has exhibited, performed, published and taught in the USA, UK, Europe and Australia. His doctorate, Arakawa and Gins: The Practice of Embodied Cognition (2006) led to co-organising the Reading Room exhibition at AG2 (2008), the AG3 conference (2010), the Unruly Techniques symposium (2014) and the Second International Body of Knowledge: Art and Embodied Cognition Conference (2019). He is co-author of Creative Measures of the Anthropocene (2020) with Kaya Barry.

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