Deep Time: The Art of Time

Angelo Bautista/Firefly (TTBOOK)

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February 15, 2025

Some artists work with pen and ink, some use brushes and paint. And some make art out of time. Meet some contemporary artists who are finding new ways to bridge the distance between us and the furthest reaches of time.

Deep Time is a series all about the natural ecologies of time from To The Best Of Our Knowledge and the Center for Humans and Nature. We'll explore life beyond the clock, develop habits of "timefulness" and learn how to live with greater awareness of the many types of time in our lives.

Crafting cosmic art through deep time

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Artist Katie Paterson works with melting glaciers, fossilized insects and the dust from meteorites to help us expand our time horizons. Her art bridges cosmic and human timescales, revealing the beauty in vast temporal expanses.

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23:17

What if clocks were synced to the flow of a river?

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Philosopher and conceptual artist Jonathon Keats engineers monumental-scale clocks that run on “river time” or “arboreal time” to un-standardize our atomic time. He says we need to make time more pluralistic, to envision a kind of chrono-diversity.

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11:12

Capturing a symphony of time in a dawn chorus

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Acoustic ecologist and sound artist Alex Braidwood has recorded many dawn choruses, from first-light to full sunrise, in his Iowa backyard and all over the world. On his album, “Serotinous Repose,” he turns the dawn chorus into music.

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14:57
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Airdates
February 15, 2025
Guests: 

Katie Paterson

Artist
katiepaterson.org

Jonathon Keats

Philosopher Artist
alaskarivertime.org

Alex Braidwood

Sound Artist and Acoustic Ecologist
alexbraidwood.com
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Art
Science
Nature
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Last modified: 
February 17, 2025