Produced and Exhibited in Cooperation with Bonniers Konsthall, project initiated for the exhibition "Making worlds" 53rd Venice Biennial curated by Daniel Birnbaum.
Project initiator:
Tomas Saraceno
Project manager and realization:
Tomas Saraceno and Studio Tomas Saraceno
Arachnogical Consultants and realization:
Dr. Peter Jäger, Arachnologist. Senckenberg Institute, Senckenberganlage 25, 60325 Frankfurt, Germany
peter.jaeger@senckenberg.de
Samuel Zschokke, University of Basel, Section of Conservation Biology, Switzerland,samuel.zschokke@unibas.ch
Rolf-Dieter Dueppe, Dieter Steineck and Christof Wulff
Institut für Photogrammetrie und Kartographie, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany, wulff@geod.tu darmstadt.de,dieter@gauss.phgr.verm.tu-darmstadt.de
Bonniers Konsthall
Curator: Sara Arrhenius; Project Manager: Mattias Givell; Assistant Curator: Caroline Elgh
Studio Tomas Saraceno: Adrian Krell: research, coordination and communication; Kyriakos Chatziparaskevas: Restoration of the spider web, carrying 3D geometrical data. Restoration Team: Abheet Vijay Deval, Ashish Anandrao Mohite, Dushyant H. Asher
Jol Thomson: Coordination for the construction of the spider in big scale in the hangar. Team Construction: Abheet Vijay Deval, Ayaka Okutsu, Joseph Walsh, Ashish Anandrao Mohite, Dushyant H. Asher, Rashmi Katkar, Knut Liese, Felix Obe'e, Carolina Boettner.
Photo: tomas Saraceno , Camilo Brau
Project initiator:
Tomas Saraceno
Project manager and realization:
Tomas Saraceno and Studio Tomas Saraceno
Arachnogical Consultants and realization:
Dr. Peter Jäger, Arachnologist. Senckenberg Institute, Senckenberganlage 25, 60325 Frankfurt, Germany
peter.jaeger@senckenberg.de
Samuel Zschokke, University of Basel, Section of Conservation Biology, Switzerland,samuel.zschokke@unibas.ch
Rolf-Dieter Dueppe, Dieter Steineck and Christof Wulff
Institut für Photogrammetrie und Kartographie, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany, wulff@geod.tu darmstadt.de,dieter@gauss.phgr.verm.tu-darmstadt.de
Bonniers Konsthall
Curator: Sara Arrhenius; Project Manager: Mattias Givell; Assistant Curator: Caroline Elgh
Studio Tomas Saraceno: Adrian Krell: research, coordination and communication; Kyriakos Chatziparaskevas: Restoration of the spider web, carrying 3D geometrical data. Restoration Team: Abheet Vijay Deval, Ashish Anandrao Mohite, Dushyant H. Asher
Jol Thomson: Coordination for the construction of the spider in big scale in the hangar. Team Construction: Abheet Vijay Deval, Ayaka Okutsu, Joseph Walsh, Ashish Anandrao Mohite, Dushyant H. Asher, Rashmi Katkar, Knut Liese, Felix Obe'e, Carolina Boettner.
Photo: tomas Saraceno , Camilo Brau
Blog: Anton Stuckardt, Camilo Brau
Engineer consultancy, Bollinger & Grohman Frankfurt, Vienna, Paris
Further Advise and Help
Till Hergenhahn (Aeronautenwerkstatt Frankfurt, Germany),
Contruction of First 1:16 Box:
Christian Meissner (Raumgestalten Frankfurt, Germany)
ILSRA-Proposal for spiders in space together with Prof. Gilles Clement, International Space University, 67400 Illkirch-Graffenstaden - France, clement@isunet.edu
Spiders and cosmos with Prof. Dr. Volker Springel, Theoretical Astrophysics, University Heidelberg, Germany and Max-Planck-Institute for Astrophysics, Garching Germany, volker.springel@h-its.org