In this series, floating galaxies made of different silk and web types collide, challenging gravity and fostering the emergence of new kinds of vibrational environments. As different spiders from different species weave in the same space, bridging the architectures of each other’s webs, each one of them tells a story of hybrid relationships, entangling not only different arachnid webbed ecosystems, but also human and more-than-human worlds. Formed of complex interwoven networks suspended in air, the Hybrid Webs unique architectures originate from inter-specific encounters between unrelated solitary, social and semi-social spider species. Mapping against extinction: The Archive of Spider/Web Ecologies 3-Dimensional Digital Archive of Spider/Web Typologies 3-Dimensional Physical Archive of Spider/Web Typologies 2-Dimensional Archive of Spider/Web Prints We ask for your collaboration as we seek to expand these archives, in a collective effort to raise awareness of our invertebrate kin. Just like the spider/web, these archives are not static but dynamic, and continue to grow and change shape. Through this website, these archives are made available to the interested public, to advance understanding and possibilities for thinking with the spider/web. Through this interest in the form, function and possibilities of invertebrate architectures, Studio Tomás Saraceno has carefully built a series of spider/web archives, that allow insights into the various spider/web typologies that exist, and allow us to imagine new ways to interpret and understand these living architectures and assemblages, through the lens of multiple disciplines of thought. According to numerous studies that have argued that the web is an extension of the spider’s sensory and also cognitive systems - our approach is not to consider the web as separate to the web-building spider, but a living material assemblage we think of in terms of the conjunctive neologism: the spider/web. Since 2006, Tomás Saraceno has been articulating a shift in focus, to unfold arachnid research from the perspective of the web.
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