Jonathon Keats

Oct 30, 2024 | longnow.org | Jonathon Keats |William Fox

ūüí°FIRST LOOK: CENTURIES OF THE BRISTLECONEComing Spring 02025An exhibition by artist and experimental philosopher Jonathon Keats co-commissioned by The Long Now Foundation and the Center for Art + Environment at the Nevada Museum of Art. An 18-foot tall dual pendulum clock that measures the growth of the world's most ancient living trees, exploring new ways of thinking about deep time and resilience. Sign up for our newsletter to learn more and join us this spring for our grand opening.

Oct 29, 2024 | forbes.com | Jonathon Keats

On the sixth day, God created Adam and Eve. In 1585, an anonymous engraver created a print representing that fateful event, showing an elderly deity with a long white beard gently bringing Adam and Eve into being. Based on a painting by the Flemish master Maarten de Vos, the engraving was popular enough to merit reprinting more than half a century later.

Sep 22, 2024 | forbes.com | Jonathon Keats

Sir William Crookes discovered a new element before his thirtieth birthday. Over the following decades, he pioneered the vacuum tube, invented the radiometer, and discovered a fourth state of matter. Crookes was universally recognized as one of the greatest scientists of the Victorian era, at the forefront of research on invisible forces and imponderable phenomena. But none of his insights prepared him for the loss of his younger brother to yellow fever.

Aug 25, 2024 | forbes.com | Jonathon Keats

When the Islamic State seized the Iraqi city of Mosul, clerics directed boys to give up the playing field for the battlefield. Religious leaders banned soccer shorts. They also forbade whistling, reasoning that devils might be summoned by the noise. For three years, occasional matches were monitored by armed jihadists. Ultimately the sport was deemed haram – unlawful – and all but forbidden. Several boys who broke the rules were executed.

Aug 14, 2024 | mod.org.au | Jonathon Keats |Lisa Bailey

On January 16, 2024, MOD. opened a new kind of polling agency. Instead of gauging the political opinion of humans, the agency sought to evaluate the attitude of trees. Under the guidance of experimental philosopher and artist Jonathon Keats, the agency evaluates changes in stress level by monitoring changes in canopy cover. (Under greater stress, a tree grows fewer leaves.) The agency also registers changes in local law.