Spiders are abundantly found in nature and most ecosystems, making up more than 47 000
species. This ecological success is in part due to the exceptional mechanics of the spider …

This book explores the intersection of geographical knowledge and artistic research in terms
of both creative methods and practice-based research. In doing so it brings together …

Projects that bring the 'hard'sciences into art are increasingly being exhibited in galleries
and museums across the world. In a surge of publications on the subject, few focus on …

In recent years, geographers and others have begun to tease out the ontological,
epistemological, and ethico-political implications of thinking about and with the elemental. In …

The term mantle has inspired philosophers, geographers, and theologians and shaped
artists' and mapmakers' visual vocabularies for thousands of years. According to Veronica …

Spiders are nature's engineers that build lightweight and high-performance web
architectures often several times their size and with very few supports; however, little is …

Abstract 3D spider webs exhibit highly intricate fiber architectures and owe their outstanding
performance to a hierarchical organization that spans orders of magnitude in length scale …

In the thirty or so years since the emergence of a 'new cultural geography', geography has
witnessed an unprecedented shift toward the language and practices of performance and …

This article employs Anne Sauvagnargues' writing on 'artmachines' to explore a series of
experiments with spiders and simulations at Studio Tomás Saraceno. These experiments …

Abstract Arachnid Orchestra. Jam Sessions, Cosmic Jive: The Spider Sessions and the
Cosmic Dust Web Orchestra are pioneering and visionary projects by artist Tomás Saraceno …