Tomás Saraceno
Subtitle: cómo atrapar el universo en una telaraña
By: autores = authors, Philip Ball [and sixteen others]
Contributors: Museo de Arte Moderno (Buenos Aires, Argentina)
Publisher: Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires
Published: 2018
Place of publication: Buenos Aires
Language: spa
Number of pages: 211
ISBN-13: 9789871358526
Subjects: Exhibitions; Installations (Art); Science in art; Architecture in art
Other titles: Cómo atrapar el universo en una telaraña; Tomás Saraceno.; Tomás Saraceno. English.
Description: Catalog of the two large-scale, interactive web-like structural installations and floating sculptures that combine the interest of spider-obsessed contemporary artist Tomás Saraceno (San Miguel de Tucumán, 1973) in arachnology, astrophysics, sound and art through a "cosmic concert". The installation "The Cosmic Dust Spider Web Orchestra" [Orquesta aracnocósmica], is a spider suspended in the middle of the room that weaves its fabrics. The vibrations that produce its movements in the fabric are amplified generating waves of sound, while particles of cosmic dust float around. In tune with the cadence of the sound waves produced by the spider, an algorithm translates the movements of the cosmic dust into sounds, which are reproduced in dozens of speakers. The instrument installation "Musical Cuasi-Social IC 342 construido por 7000 arañas Parawixia bistriata" was built between October 2016 and January 2017 by 18 colonies of spiders of the species Parawixia bistriata that wove during the night the largest cobweb. This community structure, which remembers 140 million years of arachnid presence on earth, is a microscopic fraction and, at the same time, a faithful reflection of the infinitely complex network of individuals, species and elements that make up the universe.
Notes: Catalogue is published in conjunction with the exhibition Tomás Saraceno at MAMBA from April 6 to March 18, 2018.

Includes bibliographical references.

Text in Spanish and English.
Table of contents: title: Tomas Saraceno: como atrapar el universo en una telaraña = Tomas Saraceno: how to entangle the universe in a spider web/ Victoria Noorthoorn; title: Entrelazando "Umwelten" en Cronotopos. Tomas Saraceno, arañas y polvo cósmico en en Buenos Aires = Webbing "Umwelten" in Chronotopes. Tomas Saraceno, spiders and cosmic dust in Buenos Aires / Caroline A. Jones; title: Universos paralelos: las redes primordiales webs and y el polvo cósmico = Parallel universes: primordial webs and cosmic dust / Alejandro Gangui; title: La gran telaraña = The great spider web / Félix Bruzzone; title: El volumen del polvo cósmico = The volume of cosmic dust / Derek McCormack; title: Expandiendo la conciencia cosmológica sensible = Expanding sensible cosmological consciousness / Mylene Ferrand Lointier; title: El animal que estoy siendo = The animal I'm being / Laura isola; title: La alegoría de las tramas = The allegory of the webs / José Emilio Bruncúa; title: La hipótesis nebular = The nebular hypothesis / Philip Ball; title: Ñandutí: estructuras de soporte = Ñandutí: support structures / Florenica Fernández Campón; title: De un sistema complejo y efímero = About a complex and ephemeral system -/ Mart?ín Ramírez; title: Sismología del cognitariado = The seismology of the cognitariat / Mauricio Corbalán; title: Sobre la exactitud de las ciencias: trazando el mapa geométrico de las redes = On exactitude in science mapping web geometries / Matthew Lutz; title: Sociabilidad a través de la araña = Sociality through the web / Alex Jordan; title: La paciencia del artista = The patience of the artista / Diego Golombek; title: Dios, la araña = God, the spider / Carlos Gamerro; title: El arca incandescente de la noche = The white hot harp of night / Pola Olaixarac; title: Authores = Authors; title: Biografía = Biography.