Natasha Schüll, Leila W Kinney, Tomás Saraceno, Carrie Lambert-Beatty, Alva Noë, and Josh Tenenbaum at the “Sensing — Actions” panel of the CAST Symposium, 2014. Photo: L. Barry Hetherington.
Tomás Saraceno presents in “Sensing/ Actions,” CAST Symposium, 2014. Photo: Barry Hetherington.
Tomás Saraceno, in orbit, K21 Ständehaus, 2013. Credit: Studio Saraceno, Tomás Saraceno.
Tomás Saraceno, in orbit, K21 Ständehaus, 2013. Credit: Studio Saraceno, Tomás Saraceno.
Tomás Saraceno at MIT. Credit: L. Barry Hetherington.
Tomás Saraceno at MIT. Credit: L. Barry Hetherington.
Tomás Saraceno – 32SW/Stay green/Flying Garden/Air-Port-City, 2007-09. Image courtesy of Tomás Saraceno; Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York; Andersen’s Contemporary, Copenhagen; Pinksummer Contemporary Art, Genoa.
Tomás Saraceno - 32SW/Stay green/Flying Garden/Air-Port-City, 2007-09. Image courtesy of Tomás Saraceno; Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York; Andersen's Contemporary, Copenhagen; Pinksummer Contemporary Art, Genoa.
Cloud City at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2012. Credit: Camilo Brau. Image courtesy of Studio Tomás Saraceno.
Cloud City at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2012. Credit: Camilo Brau. Image courtesy of Studio Tomás Saraceno.
Tomás Saraceno, 14 Billions, 2010. Credit: Studio Tomás Saraceno.
Tomás Saraceno , 14 Billions, 2010. Credit: Studio Tomás Saraceno.
Tomás Saraceno, Poetic Cosmos of the Breath, 2010. Courtesy of Tomás Saraceno; Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York; Andersen’s Contemporary, Copenhagen; Pinksummer Contemporary Art, Genoa.
Tomás Saraceno, Poetic Cosmos of the Breath, 2010. Courtesy of Tomás Saraceno; Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York; Andersen's Contemporary, Copenhagen; Pinksummer Contemporary Art, Genoa.
2014 CAST “SEEING/SOUNDING/SENSING” SYMPOSIUM PARTICIPANT TOMÁS SARACENO
Tomás Saraceno was the inaugural Visiting Artist at MIT’s Center for Art, Science & Technology (CAST). An artist trained as an architect, Saraceno employs theoretical frameworks and insights from engineering, physics, chemistry, aeronautics and materials science. He creates inflatable and airborne biospheres with the morphology of soap bubbles, spider webs, neural networks or cloud formations, which are speculative models for alternate ways of living. His work makes tangible the complex systems of interaction between humans and their environment.
On Space Time Foam, a project created in 2012 for HangarBicocca in Milan, Italy, is the stimulus for a wide-ranging discussion in the CAST Symposium “Seeing / Sounding / Sensing” of current understandings in neuroscience about the human capacity for joint action and bodily awareness. The work is a multi-layered installation of plastic membranes suspended 24 meters above the ground. Each level has a different air pressure and reacts to the movement of visitors in each layer, creating an extraordinary interactive experience for its inhabitants. Saraceno envisions the work in a later iteration as a floating biosphere above the Maldives Islands, which could be made habitable with solar panels and desalinated water.
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