"Today’s pervasive technologies need to be overtly probed, much as Nam June Paik manipulated televisions with magnets. The strongest counterforce to mediated mediocrity is art." @forbes

A TV Masterpiece? Meet The Artists Who Brought Television Into The Museum | via @forbes

"'Man will not end his days on Earth.' These words weren’t spoken by Elon Musk, nor were they intended to encourage colonization of Mars. When the artist Gyula Kosice made this declaration in 1944, the future he sought were considerably more revolutionary." https://t.co/7fDmJclcq1

See The First City Designed By An Avant-Garde South American Artist | via @forbes

Can firefly flash patterns be as poetic as a Shakespearean Sonnet? See for yourself. Desire Lines: Charting Firefly Love & Light is now on view at CU Boulder's Earth Sciences & Map Library.

New survey results from CIP: "60% of respondents believe animals should participate in human democracy in some capacity—whether through direct voting on issues affecting them, advisory roles, or representation through human proxies."

"To create a coherent artwork, an artist makes decisions that foreclose other options. Some of those options might be equally compelling. Copyists are poised to explore permutations, which can be produced ad infinitum."

Copying The Most Famous Works In The Louvre, Contemporary Artists Are Keeping Them Up To Date: A new Pompidou exhibition features audacious versions of ancient and Renaissance masterpieces by artists such as Michaël Borremans and Jeff Koons | via @forbes

Imagining Life After The Polycrisis: A Public Conversation With Jonathon Keats and Robert Folger, Moderated by Julian Reid. Hosted by DAI Heidelberg and the Center for Apocalyptic & Post-Apocalyptic Studies

Telling time by trees: The Nevada Museum of Art’s new expansion contains a clock that runs on ‘bristlecone time’

How does a bristlecone pine tree observe the passage of time? On September 13th, artist Jonathon Keats joins William Fox for a conversation about Keats’ new installation, a monumental clock recently installed at the Nevada Museum of Art.

"The most vital task of designers today is to design contexts for exchange as well as processes of design where humans are only one of many participants. For more-than-human design to become a reality, the practice itself must be designed."

A London Design Museum Survey Of More-Than-Human Design Reveals How Animal Intelligence Can Fix Our Mistakes | Forbes

Smithsonian Announces 2025 Artist Research Fellowship Awardees

Was würde passieren, wenn wir Bäume wählen lassen? Der Experimentalkünstler und Philosoph Jonathon Keats ist der Ansicht, dass auch nichtmenschliche Lebewesen eine Stimme in der Politik verdienen.

Enjoy TikTok Explainers? This Fondazione Prada Exhibition Shows That Old-Fashioned Diagrams Are A Whole Lot Smarter | Forbes

Want To Future-Proof Your Home? The Festival of the Future Will Host a Hands-On Workshop on Climate-Adapted Architectural Heritage at the Deutsches Museum in Munich on 2 July. Register Here:

This Exhibit Shows How Our Relationship With Nature Was Redefined By A Dragonfly | via @forbes

"Jonathon challenges us to look at the assumptions built into our markets, democracies and technologies, and seems to do it in ways that seem abstract at the time, but end up prefiguring political or cultural issues years or decades before they erupt."

ON TIMEKEEPING, NATURE & DEMOCRACY @m_t_prewitt talks with @jonathonkeats about the philosophy of timekeeping and the promise of alternative systems such as the river clock https://t.co/WyTRO02435