“Shapes of Our Times” is an online calendar and archive created by artist Hayal Pozanti.
Each day at 7pm Eastern Standard Time, Pozanti captures and displays the trending Twitter hashtag. She also culls the most popular image and creates a unique shape representing the date from her “Instant Paradise” lexicon.
“Shapes of Our Times” is an instant logo generator for the zeitgeist as well as a cultural history archive. Visitors are now able to see the first week and will be able to access the archive as time goes by.
You can also follow the project @ShapesOfOurTimes on Instagram and @OurShapes on Twitter.
Hayal Pozanti (b. 1983, Istanbul, Turkey) has a BA from Sabanci University and an MFA from Yale University. The artist has been awarded large-scale public projects and commissions by Cleveland Clinic and Case Western, Cleveland. She has had institutional solo shows at the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT and the Brooklyn Academy of Music, New York. Pozanti’s work is in the permanent collections of: Eli & Edythe Broad Art Museum; JP Morgan Chase Art Collection; Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA); New York Presbyterian Hospital; San Jose Museum of Art; Stanford Hospital; and UCLA Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts, Hammer Museum.
