Come hear author Jonathon Keats read entries from his new book: Control + Alt + Delete: A Dictionary of Cyber Slang. Jonathon Keats is an American conceptual artist known for creating large-scale thought experiments. He is most famous for attempting to genetically engineer God in a laboratory, a 2004 collaboration with geneticists at UC Berkeley. Mr. Keats also copyrighted his mind in 2003, claiming that it was a sculpture that he’d created, neural network by neural network, through the act of thinking.Recently, he staged the First Intergalactic Art Expositio transmitting his own abstract artwork out into the cosmos. He is also the art critic for San Francisco Magazine, and writes about art for publications including Art in America, Art & Auction, ArtNews, and Artweek. He’s a book critic as well, and the author of two novels , The Pathology of Lies, published in English by Warner Books, and Lighter Than Vanity, published exclusively in Russian by Eksmo. He pens the Jargon Watch column for Wired magazine.

Come hear him read entries from his new book:
Control + Alt + Delete: A Dictionary of Cyber Slang published by The Lyons Press, his new “Devil’s Dictionary” of technology.

Mr. Keats will also be reading a selection of short fictional pieces, called Epyllions, each a paragraph in length, concerning subjects from the scientific to the mythic. Through essays and fables, he’ll explore large ideas in a micro-cosmic manner akin to his conceptual art.