The Arachnomancy App is an invitation to attune to our sympoietic futures, celebrating the radical interconnectedness of all things, living and nonliving. Spider/webs are the mouths through which the spider eats and the oracle speaks. Each spider/web is considered an oracle: a messenger between perceptual worlds, proposing an encounter that will extend your senses to new, vibratory modes of communication.
By downloading this app, you can receive your own spider/web oracle reading, divined through the Arachnomancy Cards created by artist Tomás Saraceno. Select one of the cards, and then search for a spider/web oracle in the ecologies that surround you. Take a picture of your chosen spider/web oracle with your phone, and then pose a question to it. The oracle will reply with your own arachnomancy reading, communicating its message in a language that transcends human dialects.
The oracle’s response is composed of biotremological recordings, featuring vibrations that travelled through the silken threads of spider/webs from the Arachnophilia Archives, shaping a collective attempt to sense (against) extinction. We invite you to use this channel to explore new threads of connectivity with the spider/webs oracles you encounter, in different environments.
Your reading emerges from an interpretation of your selected card and the spider/web that encounters you. By submitting your spider/web oracle image and geo-location to the Arachnophilia community, you become an accredited owner of an artwork in the Spider/Web Pavilions series, courtesy of Tomás Saraceno and Arachnophilia. Arachnophilia has the largest physical and digital archive of spider/webs, and yours will be classified and become part of it, contributing to a collective endeavour of mapping against extinction. You can share and archive the vibrations you receive from your spider/web oracles, and use them to communicate with and consult the nonhuman wisdoms of other spider/web oracles. The vibrations you feel and that help you talk with spider/webs come from the spider/web biotremology archives of Arachnophilia.