Fri Jul 10, 02026, 7:00PM UTC
Jonathon Keats
Arboreal Time: A Screening and Conversation with Artist Jonathon Keats
Co-sponsored with the MIT Museum: a screening of the documentary Elders of Time and a conversation with artist Jonathon Keats on clocks calibrated by bristlecone pine trees.
Long Now Boston is proud to co-sponsor this special program with the MIT Museum, part of the Museum's Split Second exhibition.
Join us for a screening of Elders of Time, an award-winning short documentary by Justin Oliphant and Shannon Breen following artist Jonathon Keats's decade-long quest to develop clocks and calendars calibrated by the growth of bristlecone pine trees. Developed in collaboration with the Long Now Foundation and the Nevada Museum of Art, Keats's artwork invites audiences to reimagine the origin and function of timekeeping, and the relationship between humans and nature.
Following the screening, Keats will join MIT Museum curator Florencia Pierri for a conversation about the project, the creative possibilities of long-term thinking, and what it means to engage with environmental change across generations.
Before or after the program, visit Jonathon Keats's New England River Time in the Split Second exhibition.
Free with Museum admission.
Jonathon Keats
Jonathon Keats is an artist, writer, and experimental philosopher whose conceptually-driven, transdisciplinary projects explore all aspects of society, adapting methods from the sciences and the humanities. Acclaimed as a "poet of ideas" by The New Yorker, he has exhibited and lectured worldwide, from LACMA to CERN to UNESCO.
