Deep Time Photography

STATE Studio a Berlin-based initiative that builds cultural programs at the intersection of science, art, and society to help forward ideas for a sustainable future. With exhibitions, residencies, and events, STATE invites its audience to curated deep-dives into current topics that shape our tomorrow.

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Event Description
Create a camera to document the next 100 years in a single photograph. The Century Camera Project transforms old 35mm film cameras into photographic time capsules that will reveal the world we make to future generations - and give us a long-term perspective on our actions today. No photographic or mechanical skills are needed to participate in this 3-hour workshop, all materials will be provided, and you'll walk away with a camera ready to take a 100-year exposure. The workshop will be conducted under the guidance of experimental philosopher and artist Jonathon Keats, who has previously made cameras with exposure times as long as 1000 years.
About the artist 
Acclaimed as a "poet of ideas" by The New Yorker and a "multimedia philosopher-prophet" by The Atlantic, Jonathon Keats is an experimental philosopher, artist, and writer based in San Francisco and Northern Italy. His conceptually-driven interdisciplinary art projects explore all aspects of society through science and technology. In recent years, he has installed a camera with a thousand-year-long exposure  – documenting the long-term effects of climate change – at Arizona State University; opened a photosynthetic restaurant serving gourmet sunlight to plants at the Crocker Art Museum; exhibited extraterrestrial abstract artwork decoded from radiotelescope data at the Judah L. Magnes Museum; and attempted to genetically engineer God in collaboration with scientists at the UC Berkeley.
Exhibited internationally, Keats's projects have been documented by PBS, Reuters, and the BBC World Service, and covered by periodicals ranging from Science to Flash Art to The Economist. He is the recipient of multiple Yaddo and MacDowell Fellowships, and has lectured extensively about his work at institutions including UC Berkeley, Stanford University, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), which awarded him a 2015 Art + Technology Lab Grant. He is also the author of six books, most recently "You Belong to the Universe: Buckminster Fuller and the Future" and "Forged: Why Fakes Are the Great Art of Our Age", both published by Oxford University Press. In the Spring of 2018, he will be the Black Mountain College Legacy Fellow at the University of North Carolina - Asheville.

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