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Program Director

Director David Feldman - College of the Atlantic

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Faculty

Seth Blumsack, Engineering in Complex Systems

Liz Bradley, Nonlinear Dynamics

Caroline Buckee, Infectious Diseases

Aaron Clauset, Networks

Stefani Crabtree, Modeling Past Human Societies

Jim Crutchfield, Complexity

Simon DeDeo, Social Inference

Mirta Galesic, Building Blocks of Social Learning Strategies

Jennifer A. Dunne, Ecological Networks

Lily Hu, Machine Learning

Jessica Flack, Computational Worlds

Stephanie Forrest, Computation, Immune Systems and Security

Joshua Garland, Nonlinear Dynamics

Ross Hammond, Agent-based modeling for public health

Elizabeth Hobson, Networks & Animal Societies

Srividya Iyer-Biswas, Stochastic Biological Systems

John Kaag, Science Communication

Chris Kempes, Scaling

Artemy Kolchinsky, Machine Learning

David Krakauer, President of Santa Fe Institute - Complexity to Save the World + The Universality of Adaptation

Daniel Larremore, Networks & Hierarchies

Melanie Mitchell, Artificial Intelligence and the Barrier of Meaning

Cris Moore, Computation Theory

Kirsten Moy, Applied Complexity for Social Change

Rajiv Sethi, Game Theory

Andreas Wagner, Innovations in Biological Evolution

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Geoffrey West, Scaling

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Vicky Yang, Dynamical Systems & Social Phenomena

Hyejin Youn, Social Dynamics

Matthew Zefferman, Game Theory

Artists in Residence

Complex Movements live performance of Beware of the Dandelions at Talking Dolls Studio, Detroit

COMPLEX MOVEMENTS
Complex Movements is a Detroit-based artist collective composed of graphic designer/fine artist Wesley Taylor, music producer/filmmaker Waajeed, hip-hop lyricist/organizer Invincible/ill Weaver, artist/designer/engineer L05 (Carlos Garcia), and creative producer/cultural strategist Sage Crump. The collective develops interactive performance work that illuminates connections between complex science and social movements to support the transformation of communities.

Complex Movements draws much of its inspiration from the writings, philosophy, and experience of 98-year-old Detroit-based activist, Grace Lee Boggs. Boggs delivered a speech about the connections between quantum physics and social movements. In this speech she urged communities to explore the premise that change occurs through critical connections rather than critical mass. Since hearing this speech, Complex Movements has been serially conducting research and creating artworks based on these concepts. Their current project, Beware of the Dandelions (BoTD), is the culmination of this exploration and lessons learned from previous artistic and community organizing work. This project is designed to support local and national movement building. BoTD was created with the intention of engaging local communities to expand their strategies for organizing around local social justice issues. It also connects communities from different cities including Seattle, Detroit, DC, and Dallas, that are developing alternative approaches to changemaking by exchanging stories, models, and lessons. To accomplish these local and national connections, this piece utilizes a unique touring strategy that is also based on principles developed through the study of complexity.

Staff

John Paul Gonzales, CSSS Office Manager, Santa Fe Institute



Carla Shedivy, Education Program Coordinator, Santa Fe Institute