Can the minority learn to live with the majority of us? We are the 95% of all animals on planet earth asking for the right to weave webs of life, yet we are threatened into extinction by such a small number of individuals.ĭo not be afraid. We have lived on earth for more than 380 million years, while some of you humans, only 200 thousand years. We could grant you in exchange a certificate of co-existence for a perpetual loan of our avatar friends to be exhibited permanently, under the terms agreed to respect our rights! Now, after this exhibition ends, you will need to find us in the real world and show a good will of co-existence by not sweeping us away. This summer, you will be able to spot our augmented presence around the Serpentine. Your scientific names for us are Bagheera kiplingi * and Maratus speciosus, though we call ourselves differently in our vibrational language. To overcome this we hope you might interact with a digital version of us. Many of you are frightened of us in the real world. We hope that after this exhibition ends, you would consider allowing our continuing but threatened, unlimited existence. We would like to start by thanking you for your time, by recognizing our rights to inhabit and participate in this exhibition and for not labelling us “urban pests” as many others do. Towards Webs of Life: For a real Augmented Reality It is an experiment in technodiversity (a term coined by writer and philosopher Yuk Hui) in the service of biodiversity – moving us to a real Augmented Reality. Webs of Life invites a deeper consideration towards and awareness of our neighbours, collectively calling for interspecies cohabitation. The presence of these arachnids aims to raise awareness and funds for the protection of biodiversity, supporting environmental justice in the age of climate change and the sixth mass extinction. Two giant Augmented Reality (AR) spiders have been positioned outside the Serpentine gallery: Bagheera kiplingi* and Maratus speciosus, also called the peacock spider because of its coloured opisthosomal plate. See the collection of Spider/Web images on Saraceno’s Arachnomancy App. This encourages participants to look and learn where spiders/webs live and weave inside buildings, behind doors, on windows, under leaves. Gain access to this AR spider by submitting a picture of a real spider or web. Through these sculptures, we can reconsider our relationship to spiders and sense a world that is disappearing.īagheera kiplingi*, the world’s only vegetarian spider, is a personal Augmented Reality (AR) artwork. Saraceno encourages us to move away from a fear of spiders (arachnophobia) and towards a love of spiders ( Arachnophilia ) this summer through a collection of Augmented Reality (AR) spiders: a small AR spider can be accessed anywhere in exchange for a photo of a spider/web, and two large AR spiders can be viewed by visiting the Serpentine. The album has since been released on Google Play Music, iTunes and Spotify. The retail album consists of 12 tracks while the Bandcamp version includes 14 tracks.Serpentine and Acute Art present Webs of Life, a project by artist Tomás Saraceno with Arachnophilia. The album was released for purchase on October 1, 2016, on Bandcamp. There are also some other songs included that were a collaboration, with one of them being an original not based on an Undertale theme. RichaadEB and AceWaters returned to add another side to this album called "The Purple Side." The Purple Side was made from each artist choosing five songs that the other did, and remixing them in their own way.
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