Author: Keats, Jonathon (born 1971)
Title: Jonathon Keats: Pioneers of the Greater Holocene. Exhibition Poster
Description: San Francisco: Modernism, 2019. Poster. 56 x 41 cm..Jonathon Keats is a San Francisco-based experimental philosopher who has, over the years, sold real estate in the extra dimensions of space-time proposed by string theory (he sold a hundred and seventy-two extra-dimensional lots in the Bay Area in a single day); made an attempt to genetically engineer God (God turns out to be related to the cyanobacterium); and copyrighted his own mind (in order to get a seventy-year post-life extension... Keats's bold experiments raise serious questions and put into practice his conviction that the world needs more "curious amateurs," willing to explore publicly whatever intrigues them, in defiance of a culture that increasingly forecloses on wonder and siloes knowledge into narrowly defined areas of expertise..Jonathon Keats is an experimental philosopher, artist, and writer whose conceptually-driven transdisciplinary projects explore all aspects of society, adapting methods from the sciences and the humanities. 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, published by Oxford University Press - and is the author of a weekly online arts column for Forbes. He is a research associate at the University of Arizona's Desert Laboratory on Tumamoc Hill, a research fellow at the Highland Institute and the Long Now Foundation, a visiting scholar at San José State University's CADRE Laboratory for New Media, consulting philosopher at Earth Law Center, and an artist-in-residence at Hyundai, the SETI Institute, and UC San Francisco's Memory and Aging Center. A monograph about his work at the intersection of philosophy and art, Thought Experiments, was recently published by Hirmer Verlag. .

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