Jonathon Keats
Artist, writer, and experimental philosopher
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.
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Jonathon Keats is an artist, writer, and experimental philosopher, and a Long Now Research Fellow. His conceptually-driven transdisciplinary projects explore all aspects of society, adapting methods from the sciences and the humanities. He has exhibited and lectured at dozens of institutions worldwide, from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art to Stanford University to the Triennale di Milano, and from SXSW to CERN to UNESCO. He is the author of six books on subjects ranging from science and technology to art and design — most recently You Belong to the Universe: Buckminster Fuller and the Future (Oxford University Press) — and has written a weekly art and design column for Forbes. His long-term, deep-time projects include 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.
