Kazys Varnelis is a Lithuanian and American transdisciplinary artist and historian, working at junctures of art, technology, architecture, sound, and the environment where he completed his dissertation on the role of the spectacle in the production of form and persona in the architecture of the 1970s. Holding a Ph.D. in the History of Architecture and Urban Development from Cornell University, he taught for twenty-five years at schools of architecture, including SCI_Arc and Columbia University, where he served as director of the Network Architecture Lab. He is a founding member of the architecture program at University of Limerick, Ireland and co-founder of AUDC. He is also a passionate advocate of the environment and rewilding, currently serving as head of advocacy at the Native Plant Society of New Jersey. His books include Blue Monday, Networked Publics, and the Infrastructural City. He has maintained a blog at http://www.varnelis.net since 1998. His art work has been displayed in shows at High Desert Test Sites, the New Museum, and the Museum of Modern Art and was the subject of Detachment, a major solo exhibition at the Contemporary Art Centre in Vilnius, Lithuania in 2016.