Elders of Time: Art & Science with the Bristlecones

Join us for an evening dedicated to Long Now’s Nevada Bristlecone Preserve, featuring the debut of our documentary Elders of Time alongside presentations by Anne Heggli, Jonathon Keats, and Adam Csank.

The event marks the premiere of Elders of Time, a short film documenting Jonathon Keats’ installation, Centuries of the Bristlecone, currently located at the Preserve.

Our featured speakers will explore the intersection of art and science:

• Jonathon Keats, artist and conceptual philosopher, will introduce "Bristlecone time." He will discuss this tree-calibrated temporal standard and how it exposes the limitations of Universal Standard Time.
• Anne Heggli, Long Now Research Fellow, will share insights from ten years of high-frequency climate monitoring on Nevada’s Mount Washington. Her work bridges modern data collection with the 5,000-year natural records kept by the bristlecone pines.
• Adam Csank, paleoclimatologist and dendrochronologist, will examine the science of bristlecone growth rates. He will outline his new long-term studies at the Preserve designed to support the ongoing Centuries of the Bristlecone project.