Vesna Pavlovic/ The Phillips Collection/ opening 5/22/14

THE PHILLIPS COLLECTION UNVEILS  

NEW WORK BY VESNA PAVLOVIĆ

Washington, DC

1600 21st Street, NW (at Q Street)

Thursday, May 22nd

(through September 28, 2014) 

Vesna Pavlovic will give an artist's perspective on her installation at the Phillips on May 22 at 6:30 p.m.

Using documentary materials sourced fromThe Phillips Collection's library and archives,Vesna Pavlovic examines the museum's history of exhibition and display in a new installation.

Beginning May 22. Illuminated Archiveshowcases a 20-foot translucent curtain printed with digitally manipulated images and two related c-prints that explore the idea of transparency, both photographic and historic. The installation is part of the Phillips's ongoing Intersections series, a projecthighlighting contemporary art and artists in conversation with the museum's permanent collection and archives.

Vesna Pavlovic holds an MFA degree in visual arts from Columbia University in New York. She has exhibited widely,  including solo shows at the Frist Center for the Visual Arts in Nashville, the Museum of History of Yugoslavia, the Salon of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Belgrade, and the Crocker Art Museum  in Sacramento. Her work is included in major private and public art collections, including The Phillips Collection and the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. She currently resides in Nashville, Tennessee, and teaches photography and digital media at Vanderbilt University.

ABOUT THE PHILLIPS COLLECTION

The Phillips Collection is one of the world's most distinguished collections of lmpressionist and Modem

American and European art. Stressing the continuity between art of the past and present, it offers astrikingly original and experimental approach to Modem art by combining works of different nationalities and periods in displays that change frequently. 

Indeterminacies performance at Zeitgeist 5/22/14- 7PM

Ingrid Laubrock (saxophones) and Tom Rainey (drums) are celebrating the release of their first duo recording titled "And Other Desert Towns" (Relative Pitch Records 1018) by touring the States. The duo's music draws on the several years and many projects they have shared since they began working together. Their experiences of playing original compositions, free improvisations and even standard songs inform this intimate setting of improvised duets. 

"Two musicians each with intimate understanding about their counterpart's abilities, tendencies, and artistic vision delve fearlessly into each other."  

Francis Bradley/Jazz Right Now

Ingrid Laubrock soprano,alto and tenor saxophone: 

Originally from Germany, Ingrid Laubrock lived in London/UK from 1989 - 2008 and is now residing in Brooklyn. She performed and recorded with: Anthony Braxton, Dave Douglas, Kenny Wheeler, Jason Moran,Tim Berne, Hamid Drake, Mark Helias, Michael Formanek, Mary Halvorson, Tyshawn Sorey, Evan Parker, Steve Beresford, John Edwards,Veryan Weston, Luc Ex,Django Bates,The Continuum Ensemble and others.
As part of the F-ire Collective, she won the BBC Jazz Award for Innovation in 2004,she was nominated for the BBC Jazz Award for 'Rising Star' in 2005, and the recipient of the 'Fellowship in Jazz Composition' by the Arts Foundation in 2006. She won the 2009 SWR German Radio Jazz Prize the and was one of the final nominees for the 2009 Westfalen Jazz Preis .

Ingrid is also a prolific composer who has written for her own groups as well as for classical orchestra. Her orchestral piece "Vogelfrei" was performed by the American Composers Orchestra and the Tricentric Orchestra in 2012.

Tom Rainey drums: 

Tom Rainey was born in Pasadena, California in 1957. Since moving to New York in 1979 he has performed and or recorded with the following artists: John Abercrombie, Mose Allison, Julian Arguelles, Ray Anderson, Tim Berne, Jane Ira Bloom, Anthony Braxton, Nels Cline, Ted Curson, Kris Davis, Mark Ducret, Mark Feldman, Michael Formanek, Drew Gress, Mark Helias, Fred Hersch, Andy Laster, Ingrid Laubrock, David Liebman, Joe Lovano, Tony Malaby, Albert Mangelsdorff, Carmen McRae, Mike Nock, Simon Nabatov, New and Used, Anita O'Day, Andrea Parkins, Herb Robertson, Angelica Sanchez, Louis Sclavis, Brad Shepik, Ken Werner, Denny Zeitlin.

Current activities include performing and recording music with the Tom Rainey Trio as well as his new quintet Obbligato. Tom also continues working with many of the aforementioned artists.

also on thursday:

An Out of the Lunch Box discussion at the Nashville Central Library (noon)

A master class in the library auditorium (1:30PM)

Indeterminacies moderated by Dr. Robert Fry (7:00PM)

May 3rd Arts & Music @ Wedgewood/Houston TONIGHT

Here's what's happening this month:
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David Lusk Gallery
516 Hagan Street
David Lusk Gallery Nashville introduces a series of new abstract paintings and organic sculpture from Nashville artist Kit Reuther. Her recent participation in art fairs, like Art Miami, has propelled her work onto the national art world stage
Learn more at: http://on.fb.me/1rzmqTL
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Fort Houston
500 Houston Street
"Ray Palumbo documents the waning industry of rural American tourism with Cave City, and Chelsea Wright, also a documentary photographer, examines the subculture of motocross in Weekend Warriors." Laura Huston, Nashville Scene
Extended throughout May!
Learn more at: http://bit.ly/1fnKbOF
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444 Pop Up Gallery
444 Humphreys St., Suite B (Outside)
KELLI SHAY HIX & JOSH GUMIELA
Learn more at: http://on.fb.me/QZ4DK4
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Ground Floor Gallery
427 Chestnut Street (inside Chestnut Square)..
Opening reception for Meet of the Matter, a solo exhibition by Jake Weigel, from 6-9pm at Ground Floor Gallery. Artist talk begins at 6:30.
Learn more at: http://on.fb.me/S6hE62
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Harvest Hands
424 Humphrey Street
5:30-9:00pm
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Hunter+Gatherer 
503 Hagan St. 
Hunter+Gatherer will have their doors open. It is a lifestyle brand with a focus on handmade original and re-purposed utilitarian art and decor. 
Learn more at: http://www.huntergatherersociety.com/
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Infinity Cat Recordings
467 Humphreys St.
OUTSIDER / PRIMITIVE ART
Learn more at: www.infinitycat.com
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Julia Martin Gallery
444 Humphreys St., Suite A (Inside)
Ongoing at Julia Martin Gallery for the #AMWH May Art Walk is "HEAD CASE" an exhibition of figurative and functional ceramic work by David Kenton Kring
www.JuliaMartinGallery.com
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Merritt Mansion
441 Humphreys St
"Notes from the 422nd Annual Wraiths for Writing" Art Show 6-9pm
Amelia Garretson-Persans
Learn more at: http://on.fb.me/1rO4dBY
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Ovvio Arte
425 Chestnut Street
Learn more at: http://ovvioarte.com/
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The Packing Plant
507 Hagan St
New pop up exhibit 6-9:
A collaboratively curated and executed installation by the Indiana University Sculpture BFA students and their professor, Mike Calway-Fagen. 
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Seed Space
1209 4th Ave South (Inside Track One)
"Run's House Remix" by Black & Jones 8-9:30pm
"Eventually the Pendulum Swings" by Lester Merriweather
Learn more at: http://seedspace.org/current-exhibitions.
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Track One
1209 4th Ave South
Learn more at: http://on.fb.me/1h8OOHw
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Zeitgeist Gallery
516 Hagan Street
Two new shows open at Zeitgeist Gallery on 5/3
Brady Haston - A Brief History of Nashville
http://zeitgeist-art.com/a-brief-history-of-nashville
Karen Seapker - Re: Surface
http://zeitgeist-art.com/re-surface

Burnaway Reviews Zeitgeist Exhibit Harmony of the Spheres

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Harmony of the Spheres, video still, 2014

Harmony of the Spheres, video still, 2014

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For the latest exhibition at Nashville’s Zeitgeist Gallery, multimedia artists Kevin Cooley and Phillip Andrew Lewis have achieved a rare feat. They’ve produced a diverse exhibition with a single material: vinyl.

When I first heard about the exhibition, I assumed an all-vinyl show would be gimmicky or nostalgic. You know, the way exhibitions of art made out of old books can be.

I was wrong.

When you walk into the gallery, the space feels charged with an ominous quietude. Three undulating black vinyl sculptures, titled Dark Matter 01, 02, and 03, greet the viewer. Perched on white pedestals and each dignified with its own spotlight, the organic formations teem with potential energy, as if at any moment they could worm their way down from their towers and onto the floor. Overhead, Dark Star, a large tentacled form suspended from the ceiling, reaches out in all directions.

Borrowing the title from an ancient Greek concept linking music and celestial movement, Harmony of the Spheres uses vinyl as a tool to explore themes of creation and destruction, black hole theories, points of singularity, and flat-earth philosophies.

Digital scans of vinyl records hang on the main wall. Here, the vinyl records—seen broken, eclipsing one other, or fading into a black abyss—are abstracted to the point that they read more as omniscient oculi than as music devices. Standing in front of the images, which feel simultaneously cellular and planetary, the mind oscillates between perceiving the looping grooves of LPs and the celestial patterns of the cosmos.

Cooley and Lewis push their material to new limits in each piece, from a starry sky made using vinyl pellets on a light box to a dense nugget of torched vinyl to a two-toned wavy tower of layered vinyl.

The exhibition also includes two video works: one is the documentation of a record-breaking performance (literally) and the other, Point of Singularity, is a meditative video featuring thousands of vinyl pellets being sucked into black-hole-like central point.

The vinyl for this project came directly from United Record Pressing, the largest vinyl record pressing plant in the country, which happens to be located near the gallery. The artists made many of the works inside the factory walls. “We were able to not only have records pressed, but also conduct our own long ‘shifts’ at the factory.” Inside, they built sculptures straight from vinyl remnants as they came off the presses and generated the photographs, videos, and sound for other pieces.

Cooley and Lewis, who met and began working together a year ago as residents at the Bemis Center in Omaha, Nebraska, are a powerful team. While accomplished artists individually, their combined vision and aesthetic senses have the ability to chart a lot more territory. “Problem solving, critical engagement, and making connections happens much faster with two brains,” they say. “In general, it has changed the way we approach our own work, and has been a very productive way to make art.”

If their first collaborative piece, which won the 3-D Award at ArtPrize 2013, is any indication of the future trajectory of their artistic partnership, then Cooley and Lewis are just getting started.

“Harmony of the Spheres” is on view at Zeitgeist Gallery in Nashville through April 26.

Sara Estes is the gallery coordinator at Fisk University and curator of the art space Threesquared. She lives, writes, and works in Nashville.

 

Zeitgeist Neighborhood Wedgewood/Houston Focus of Nashville Business Journal Article

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Wedgewood/Houston is the focus of E.J. Boyer's new article in The Nashville Business Journal, "Where Art Lives: Neighborhood's Revival Fueling Nashville Arts Scene." You can read the whole article here.

Zeitgeist Gallery

Zeitgeist Gallery

Describing the old Mays Hosiery Mill, Boyer says, "Inside the building, quiet hallways still bear vestiges, like an outdated time-card punch, of the building’s former life. But behind closed doors, a creative class is bringing the building — and subsequently the neighborhood — back to life."

On Zeitgeist's move to the neighborhood she says, "Last summer, Zeitgeist moved to Wedgewood-Houston, bringing its followers and commercial presence to the community.

“We knew that we were going to have to move from 21st Avenue, and we looked at several areas,” said Lain York, the gallery’s director. “This seemed to be natural. … It made sense to Janice [Zeitlin, the owner,] to move the gallery closer to the studio community.”

York, a painter himself, has rented studio space in Wedgewood-Houston for 18 years.

“First and foremost, this community is about the studio space,” he said. “Us and David Lusk are just retail points. We hope to serve as a resource and provide education when we can. … The studio community is really the lifeblood of a visual art scene.”"

Core Development has a 7 acre project planned in the area, "Vice President of Development Andrew Beaird said it’s too early to know what the final development plan will look like, but said the company wants to preserve the neighborhood’s artisan and maker history.

“What we like about this neighborhood is the fact that there is a significant concentration of artisans, the music industry and a lot of people who are making and creating,” he said. “They need access to a raw space that they can customize.”"

On View at Zeitgeist March 1-April 26, 2014

March 1, 5:30-9:00PM
Please join us for the opening reception. All artists will be present.

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Trace Element by Lars Strandh presents paintings in which layers and layers of thinly applied hues come together as skeins of unified color. These meticulously painted works of beauty come to us from Oslo, Norway where Lars currently lives and works.

more on Trace Element here 

Harmony of the Spheres by Kevin Cooley and Phillip Andrew Lewis seeks to present the creation of the universe through a mixed media installation. They combine sound, video, and smashed vinyl to present a work unlike anything you've ever seen before. The artists join us from Los Angeles and Chattanooga.

more on Harmony of the Spheres here 

This event is part of Art & Music at Wedgewood/Houston. Like the facebook page for complete listing of area first Saturday events.

Zeitgeist Artists Outside Exhibits

My Journey to the Stars, solo exhibit by Brent Stewart at Sewanee

My Journey to the Stars, a solo exhibition of videos by Brent Stewart, multi-media artist from Nashville, Tennessee.

February 21 - March 22, 2014

Still from My Journey to the Stars, Brent Stewart

Still from My Journey to the Stars, Brent Stewart

Artist talk and reception Friday, February 28 at 4:30 PM

The Carlos Gallery in the Nabit Art Building at University of the South is pleased to present My Journey to the Stars, a video installation by Nashville artist Brent Stewart.

My Journey to the Stars is a 4-channel video installation looping ominous black cubes in various interiors and rustic landscapes that appear to be floating or hovering while they slowly spin around. The tone of the work is formal modes of the modernist cube presented as a surreal alien visiting from another universe with sublime tension hidden under the surface.

Brent Stewart is a multi-media artist, whose works include painting, performance, photography, and video installation. He is a Nashville native who received his MFA from Goldsmiths College, London in 2003.

In 2010, his work was included in the LA based Robert & Tiltons gallery show: "Projections" by "31 of the most influential filmmakers of our time" and selected in 2010 as Filmmaker Magazine's "25 New Faces of Independent Film." His photography has been featured in the Nike sponsored exhibition and published edition: Being True, "22 Years of American Youth." His short film, The Dirty Ones, premiered at the

2009 Sundance Film Festival, which was produced by film auteur Harmony Korine and the French fashion designer, agnés b.

Carlos Gallery

Nabit Art Building

105 Kennerly Road

University of the South

Sewanee, Tennessee

gallery hours: Monday - Friday 8:00AM - 5:00PM, Saturday and Sunday 1:00 - 5:00PM

contact: Jessica Wohl     931.598.1256        jewohl@sewanee.edu

Lain York at The Frist Center

Lain York: Selections From the National Gallery 

January 31-May 11, 2014 at The Frist Center For the Visual Arts
 

Our congratulations to Zeitgeist Gallery Director and Artist, Lain York, on his Solo exhibit at the Frist Center For the Visual Arts in the Gordon Contemporary Artists Project Gallery.

 

 Lain York: Selections from the National Gallery is a tribute to John Adams, a Founding Father and the second president of the United States. Inspired by such books as David McCullough's biography of John Adams and Doris Kearns Goodwin's Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln, Nashville artist Lain York has created a series of colorful silhouettes that capture the vitriolic politics of the past, which the artist feels may be seen as precedents for the divisive politics of 21st century America. Despite the significance of the depicted scenes, York uses stick-on vinyl-often wrinkled or hanging loose-as his primary medium. This subverts the sense of dignity that often marks traditional history paintings. Fristcenter.org
 

Related Events (all free with museum admission):
 

Feb 21, 7pm and Feb 25, 12pm - ARTini - discussion between Lain York and Frist Center chief curator Mark Scala.
 

March 16, 2pm - Artful Tales - Family program with story telling and collage project inspired by York's work.
 

March 27, 6:30pm - Artist Tour of exhibit by York.

Bon Homme, 2013

Inspectors, 2013

Inspectors, 2013

CHURCH RAFFLE

Ornament, 2013

Drop by Zeitgeist, Saturday Dec 7,  between 11 and 7 to enter your name for a chance to win Ornament, by Patrick DeGuira. Part of Shade Models.

Shade Models, Installation

Tristan Perich exhibition at MOMA

Tristan Perich performing at Zeitgeist Gallery

Congrats to Tristan Perich on his installation at MOMA http://www.moma.org/interactives/exhibitions/2013/soundings/artists/10/works/ 

MoMA's first major exhibition of sound art presents work by 16 of the most innovative contemporary artists working with sound.  

Tristan Perich. Microtonal Wall. 2011. 1,500 1-bit speakers, microprocessors, aluminum. Installation at Lydgalleriet, Bergen, 2011.

Will Berry/The Tennessean

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On a hot autumn afternoon, a few hours before the opening of his first show at Zeitgeist in 11 years, Will Berry looked remarkably cool in a crisp white short-sleeved Oxford shirt tucked into neatly pressed khakis. His appearance matched the calmness of his work.

“The Night of the Iguana” is an understated, subtle collection of paintings, a quiet show with no labels (all the pieces are untitled). Manuel Zeitlin, whose architectural firm shares space with the gallery, described it as Zen-like.

Curated by Victor Zamudio-Taylor, the show remains on view through Oct. 26.

The larger paintings use three metals — aluminum, lead and graphite — and layers of patterns based on Mississippian Indian motifs, simple drawings referencing autobiographic details from Berry’s family history (“symbiotic autobiographical sketches,” he calls them) and varying hues created by oxidation of the metals.

Though conceived as individual paintings, the works are particularly effective when grouped either as a triptych or in a block of six: graphite, aluminum and white over aluminum, white and graphite.

The aluminum paintings have the patina and reflectivity of antique mirrors while the graphite paintings are full of barely perceptible hues, faint reflections and just-discernible designs.

“The metals fuse, contaminate, change each other to become something new,” Berry said.

“This is really two different shows when seen in natural light versus artificial light at night,” Zeitgeist’s Lain York said. He also said the presentation of the show pushes the limits of minimalism, which is something he and Janice Zeitlin wanted to explore in this new space.

Zeitgeist is at 516 Hagan St., Suite 100, and is open 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday. There is no admission fee. For information, call 615-256-4805.

— MiChelle Jones,

for The Tennessean

Vesna Pavlovic/Whitespace, Atlanta, GA

 

 

Fabrics of Socialism
October 18 – November 23, 2013
new works by Vesna Pavlovic
opening Reception: Friday, October 18 | 7-10pm

Fabrics of Socialism takes an archive of photographic images as a way to discuss the photographic representation of history and collective memory of post WWII Yugoslavia. The archive is the visual record of Yugoslav president Josip Broz Tito’s career and his travels around former Yugoslavia and the world. The archive’s motivation was to keep a personal record of the former President’s activities. The tension between this private intention, and the public displays represented is central to the character of the archive’s photographic and historical representation. This tension holds some relationship to my prior work, which addresses the experience of history through the lens of photographic representation. The hysteria of collectivism and communist party iconography come across as distant and exotic, evoking a bygone socialist utopia and everydayness of monumental history.

Best of Nashville

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We are very proud to be included in the Nashville Scene's Best of Nashville 2013 list.

Best Curation: Patrick DeGuira at Zeitgeist

"The Medium’s Session was the first group show to christen Zeitgeist’s new location in the Wedgewood-Houston district, and its curator, Patrick DeGuira, played the part of an artistic alchemist, casting a spell on the space with his selection of works by Chris Roberson, Emily Clayton, Ron Lambert, Brent Stewart and more. Viewing the exhibit felt like gathering clues to a great mystical puzzle." Laura Hutson                                           

Best New Gallery Space: Zeitgeist

"Back in the day, Zeitgeist was located in Cummins Station in what used to be my favorite Nashville gallery space. But for the past 15 years, its home had been a cramped retail storefront in Hillsboro Village. With its stylish and spacious new digs in the Wedgewood-Houston neighborhood, Zeitgeist has reclaimed the title of best gallery space in the city." Joe Nolan                                            

Best Photography Installation: Vesna Pavlovic

Pavlovic's new Real Images installation at Seed Space realizes a similarly enveloping experience in a much more challenging environment. The gallery features four low walls with no ceiling, in the middle of artist Adrienne Outlaw's studio in the Chestnut Square building. The floor inside the space measures about 90 square feet — generously. "Display, Desire" showed in a Frist gallery about six times as big. Pavlovic's laudable negotiation of the comparatively tiny Seed Space speaks to her abilities as a creative problem solver, and Real Images is the best installation so far this year.

 

Elephant Sanctuary Pop Up

The Elephant Sanctuary in Tennessee will be taking over 516 Hagan St #103 on October 5 for Arts & Music @ Wedgewood/Houston. 5:30-9:00.

The Elephant Sanctuary will be showing videos of the elephants in their Hohenwald, TN habitat, and answering questions about the elephants. They will also be accepting sign ups for their 5.1k honoring Asian elephant, Billie's 51st birthday. Billie was the 21st elephant to retire at the sanctuary.

The run will take place Saturday, October 12 at 8:00am in Hohenwald. Participants will receive a t-shirt, goody bag, and the opportunity to help support Billie and all of the Sanctuary’s resident elephants. Following the run, there will be a birthday party in The Sanctuary’s Welcome Center from 11:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. The party will include cake, hands-on activities, live streaming video of the elephants in their habitat, and a presentation from Billie’s Caregivers at 2:30 p.m.  For more information on the festivities or to register for the fun run, please visit www.elephants.com

 The run coincides with Hohenwald's Oktober Heritage Festival.

Check out this promo video for Billie's Fun Run:

Arts & Music @ Wedgewood/Houston October Edition

October 5, 5:30-9:00 with after party 9:00-11:00
Zeitgeist is part of Arts/Music @ Wedgewood/Houston.
The free walkable event is open to the public.
Also participating Saturday evening are:
Cheekwood (with a pop up gallery at 516 Hagan #102)
Cleft Studios - Rituals art exhibit
The Elephant Sanctuary in Tennessee (pop up at 516 Hagan #103)
Fort Houston
Ground Floor Gallery
Harvest Hands - showcasing youth projects and art by Ruben Torres

Infinity Cat Recordings
SNAP (South Nashville Action People)
United Record Pressing - open house and reel to reel listening party
after party at Track One (inside the building with the LetterLogic Sign) 

Artist’s Forum with Alex Blau and Patrick DeGuira at The Frist Center

Frist Center Rechter Room - Free; first come, first seated

October 17, 2013 – 6:30 pm | Lecture + Gallery Talk

At Artist’s Forum, artists discuss the thoughts and processes behind their work. Participants are encouraged to come and be part of the dialogue.

This month’s Artist’s Forum invites Nashville artists Alex Blau and Patrick DeGuira to speak about their involvement in the exhibition Abstractometry, on view in the Frist Center’s Conte Community Arts Gallery through February 2, 2014. The artists explain how their work employs geometry and other sign-systems to signify the role of technology, architecture, language, and design in shaping our lives.