Taxonomy of Prayer (2024)

Marshall/Meixuan Wang is an independent graphic designer and a new-media artist based in Brooklyn.

As a graphic designer, she works with local merchandises and artists, creating brand experience that forge connections and shift cultures. She sees thoughtful design as a sensory experience that enhances community and amplifies brand’s impact.

As a new-media artist, She’s inbetween system, aesthetics, simulacra, and the reality we nest in.
Her works explore the lacunae and precariousness of digitality, and searching dissonant chorus in the natural and constructed world through moving images.

Marshall is currently working as a freelance designer. Previously she worked at MIT Media Lab and Kinestry. Marshall also co-founded Sequence, a New-York based art collective exploring gesture of care through indie-publishing and design goods.

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Emailempacymachine@gmail.com

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ART FAIRS and CREATIVE EVENTS
Jersey Art Book Fair, 2025
Press Play at Pioneer Works, 2024
Offset Book Fair, 2024
Brooklyn Art Book Fair, 2024
New Art Dealers Market, 2024
IBM Quantum Design Jam , 2023
MIT Reality Hack, 2023

Exhibitions
In Good Company, Flowing Space, NY, 2024
Spiraling Ashore, The New School, NY, 2024
Neuraliminal, Boston Cyberarts Gallery, MA, 2023
A Moving Images Experience, IIDRR Gallery, NY, 2023
Play As Social, National Gallery of Denmark,
Denmark, 2023
Neura Futures, MIT Media Lab, MA, 2022
It’s Not the End!, CalArts, CA, 2021

Talks and Press
Rebel Mag
Voyage LA
Ace Art & Edu
Design Live Graduate Talk
Young Blood Talk Series
CIAD Contemporary Art and Design
TNS Parsons First Year Program

Client
Nike Swim, Renault France, MeowWolf, Bestore Co. Crocs, Qingdao Brewery, Titeuf, Parsons School of Design, REDCAT, Studio Dimitri Chamblas, MIT Media Lab, CalArts School of Dance

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Taxonomy of Prayer

Taxonomy of Prayer is a set of cotton jacquard tapestry work that explores the collision between rituals, crafts, and emerging technology. It revels a counter perspective of “consecration”, the idea of marking a spiritual activation of an object in traditional ceremonial practices, which can be found across cultures and religions. Through computer generated charms ansd sigils, it questions the legitimacy of established spiritual authorities, and explores the possibility of digitization in our predicated future.

The tapestries are compositions of procedural graphics juxtaposing the tactility of woven jacquard, formming a diagrammatic prayers of auspiciousness and blessings.

Role
Graphic Design, Art Direction, Machine Knitting

Tool
Illustrator, Photoshop, Comfort UI in TouchDesigner, Inject Printer

Medium
Woven Textile, Wood, Paper LED candles

Dimension
60 x 42 inches

Exhibition
“A Good Company”, Flowing Space , NY, 2024
New Art Dealers Alliance Market, NY, 2024

Form as Prayer

Taxonomy of Prayer