Jonathon Keats, Chief Terrestrial Librarian, The Library of the Great Silence

Jonathon Keats, Chief Terrestrial Librarian, The Library of the Great Silence

Jonathon Keats is an artist, writer and experimental philosopher whose participatory thought experiments adapt methods from the sciences and the humanities to explore societal conditions and planetary futures. He is a research associate at the University of Arizona’s Desert Laboratory on Tumamoc Hill, a visiting scholar at San Jose State University’s CADRE Laboratory for New Media, a consulting philosopher at Earth Law Center, a Polar Lab artist at the Anchorage Museum, a Flux Exchange Artist at Flux Projects, and an artist-in-residence at Hyundai, the SETI Institute, and UC San Francisco’s Memory and Aging Center. He co-directs the Center for Climate-Adapted Heritage Cuisine and serves as chief terrestrial librarian at the Library of the Great Silence. A monograph about his art, Thought Experiments, was recently published by Hirmer Verlag.