Article ID: CBB170770213

A Recursive Web of Models: Studio Tomás Saraceno's Working Objects (2020)

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This article addresses contemporary artist-architect Tomás Saraceno and his studio team's work in the context of art and science collaborations. The text pays special attention to how their artistic practice deals with questions of environmental formations and agency. Besides a context in speculative architecture, this article approaches Saraceno's material engagement as working objects, borrowing the term from Lorraine Daston and Peter Galison's work. The studio's engagement with images, sculptures, and other material objects is relevant to a broader set of discussions about materiality and the modelization of and through living beings. The article argues how spatial (spider) web constructions and sculptures work as diffractive yet productive models, concluding with how these models engage with larger questions of environmental humanities and practice-based art methods.

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Authors & Contributors
Kristina Lyons
Gil Viry
Christy Anderson
Anne Dunlop
John Holmes
Bloomfield, Mandy
Concepts
Scientific collaboration
Science and art
Materiality
Environmental humanities
Things; objects in the world
Technology and society
Time Periods
21st century
20th century, late
19th century
Renaissance
Medieval
Enlightenment
Places
United States
Soviet Union
Russia
Australia; New Zealand
England
London (England)
Institutions
Oxford University Museum of Natural History
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
University of Pennsylvania
Human Genome Project
Hubble Space Telescope
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