ARACHNOMANCY APP
Spider/webs are the mouths through which the spider eats and the oracle speaks. The oracle is a messenger between perceptual worlds, transcending the reciprocal blindness between spiders and humans,creating a zone of interspecific resonance with the vibrations running through the web. [...]
From Arachnophobia to Arachnophilia!
This hand-cut, hand-bound artist edition for the MoMA Library Council is intended to draw attention to spiders, their webs, and our shared environment through the participatory form of the pop-up book.
SPIDER/WEB MAPPING AGAINST EXTINCTION: VENICE
In 2019, Studio Tomás Saraceno is mapping the synanthropic spider/web ecologies of Venice, both inside its anthropogenic architectures, and in the areas less touched by human hands. [...]
INTERSPECIES JAM SESSION WITH ALVIN LUCIER
Conceived around the idea of a cosmic jam session, for his 2018 carte blanche exhibition at the Palais de Tokyo, ON AIR, Tomás Saraceno created a series of encounters across species, scales and phenomena - jam sessions between humans, spiders and the cosmos. [...]
Nggamdu.org / Ask the spider a question
Nggamdu.org is a web portal by the spider and spider diviners of Somié, Cameroon. Request your consultation with the spider via nggamdu.org in exchange for a set fee that goes towards the spider diviners’ practice and their community needs.
HOW TO HEAR THE UNIVERSE IN A SPIDER/WEB
A live concert for/by invertebrate rights. Dear inhabitants of the world, It has long been a tradition to present a concert to welcome the New Year. This year, we would like to thank you for inviting us to share in this celebration, for recognizing our rights to sing with you on New Year’s Eve -and not for labelling us “urban pests” as many others do. [...]
THREE-DIMENSIONAL DIGITAL SPIDER/WEB ARCHIVE
Following the invention of the Spider/Web Scan—a novel, laser-supported tomographic technique created by Tomás Saraceno in collaboration with researchers at the TU Darmstadt that allowed, for the first time, precise 3D models to be made of complex spider/webs—Studio Tomás Saraceno has initiated an archive of 3-D digital spider/webs. [...]
SPIDER/WEB-BUILDING VIBRATIONS
The spider’s world is one of vibration. Essentially blind, the web-building spider creates an image of the world through the vibrations it sends and receives through the web, which also functions as an organic and specialised instrument for transmitting these seismic signals. [...]
PARTICULAR MATTER(S)
Particular Matter(s) is a complex and entangled system, enrolling both biotic and abiotic agents and forces. Fundamental to this system is a specialised dust behavioural tracking system developed by Saraceno in collaboration with LoopBio, modeled on animal behavioural tracking systems. This system seeks to imagine ways of representing and attuning to the movements that are happening on air. [...]
2018 PALAIS DE TOKYO; PARIS
A special edition of PALAIS magazine, produced on the occasion of Tomás Saraceno’s carte blanche exhibition, ‘ON AIR’, at the Palais de Tokyo, Paris. This catalogue brings together thoughts, ideas and perspectives from art to architecture, from media studies to animal behavioural studies, [...]
HOW TO BUILD INSTRUMENTS TO HEAR THE WEB
Over the last decade, with the Spider/Web Research Group and extended team, Saraceno has developed specialised web sonification and signalling devices that unveil the hidden musicality of the spider/web.. [...]
LIFE AMONG CONCEPTUAL CHARACTERS, BRUNO LATOUR
A letter to conclude the special issue of New Literary History on “Recomposing the Humanities—with Bruno Latour”; Paris June, 1, 2016.
ARACHNOMANCY APP
Spider/webs are the mouths through which the spider eats and the oracle speaks. The oracle is a messenger between perceptual worlds, transcending the reciprocal blindness between spiders and humans,creating a zone of interspecific resonance with the vibrations running through the web. [...]
From Arachnophobia to Arachnophilia!
This hand-cut, hand-bound artist edition for the MoMA Library Council is intended to draw attention to spiders, their webs, and our shared environment through the participatory form of the pop-up book.
HOW TO HEAR THE UNIVERSE IN A SPIDER/WEB
A live concert for/by invertebrate rights. Dear inhabitants of the world, It has long been a tradition to present a concert to welcome the New Year. This year, we would like to thank you for inviting us to share in this celebration, for recognizing our rights to sing with you on New Year’s Eve -and not for labelling us “urban pests” as many others do. [...]
SPIDER/WEB MAPPING AGAINST EXTINCTION: VENICE
In 2019, Studio Tomás Saraceno is mapping the synanthropic spider/web ecologies of Venice, both inside its anthropogenic architectures, and in the areas less touched by human hands. [...]
INTERSPECIES JAM SESSION WITH ALVIN LUCIER
Conceived around the idea of a cosmic jam session, for his 2018 carte blanche exhibition at the Palais de Tokyo, ON AIR, Tomás Saraceno created a series of encounters across species, scales and phenomena - jam sessions between humans, spiders and the cosmos. [...]
Nggamdu.org / Ask the spider a question
Nggamdu.org is a web portal by the spider and spider diviners of Somié, Cameroon. Request your consultation with the spider via nggamdu.org in exchange for a set fee that goes towards the spider diviners’ practice and their community needs.
THREE-DIMENSIONAL DIGITAL SPIDER/WEB ARCHIVE
Following the invention of the Spider/Web Scan—a novel, laser-supported tomographic technique created by Tomás Saraceno in collaboration with researchers at the TU Darmstadt that allowed, for the first time, precise 3D models to be made of complex spider/webs—Studio Tomás Saraceno has initiated an archive of 3-D digital spider/webs. [...]
SPIDER/WEB-BUILDING VIBRATIONS
The spider’s world is one of vibration. Essentially blind, the web-building spider creates an image of the world through the vibrations it sends and receives through the web, which also functions as an organic and specialised instrument for transmitting these seismic signals. [...]
PARTICULAR MATTER(S)
Particular Matter(s) is a complex and entangled system, enrolling both biotic and abiotic agents and forces. Fundamental to this system is a specialised dust behavioural tracking system developed by Saraceno in collaboration with LoopBio, modeled on animal behavioural tracking systems. This system seeks to imagine ways of representing and attuning to the movements that are happening on air. [...]
2018 PALAIS DE TOKYO; PARIS
A special edition of PALAIS magazine, produced on the occasion of Tomás Saraceno’s carte blanche exhibition, ‘ON AIR’, at the Palais de Tokyo, Paris. This catalogue brings together thoughts, ideas and perspectives from art to architecture, from media studies to animal behavioural studies, [...]
HOW TO BUILD INSTRUMENTS TO HEAR THE WEB
Over the last decade, with the Spider/Web Research Group and extended team, Saraceno has developed specialised web sonification and signalling devices that unveil the hidden musicality of the spider/web.. [...]
LIFE AMONG CONCEPTUAL CHARACTERS, BRUNO LATOUR
A letter to conclude the special issue of New Literary History on “Recomposing the Humanities—with Bruno Latour”; Paris June, 1, 2016.
