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About Arsen Saidov
Author of The Living Library and creator of the Formula, a character sequence that connects books, art, sound and interactive experiments.
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A name, a family, a library
My name is Arsen Saidov. My family calls me Arsik. I am the third-born child and oldest son in a family of seven children: four brothers and three sisters.
I preserve family memory with gratitude. Its meaning for me is duty, dignity and care.
The Living Library brings together personal writing, imagined worlds and questions about identity, love, knowledge, civilization and artificial intelligence. The Formula gives those paths a recurring sequence to return to.
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The research archive, Torah reading, Twilight and Night Life offer different ways into the same evolving world.