Bordo, thanks for jumping into this. I think the spiral elements and fonts in the last four are more cheerful/delicate than we want. I really like #139 and #138 - however, the courier style font has a very strong association with conceptual art (another thing I like) and our previous logo was based on a machine rendering of courier. It's a great aesthetic, but we are trying to get away from it. (no way you could have known).
I would love to see some other font options on the stripped down style of #138 and exploring how the word treatment can be the visual signature. Always open to anything you come up with, but don't have any specific details to guide a graphic other than when it feels right.