Berliner Zeitung, Berlin. 20.9.00

...The scientific masterpiece of the show was the biggest single sili-con crystal in the world being 30 centimeter in diameter - and theartistic highlight was provided by more than 40 huge spiders fromMadagascar. They spun fine-meshed webs having a radius ofmore than one meter on which images of physical structures wereprojected. These unusual effects even let some visitors forgetabout the creeps the sight of the living spiders had given them...

..The title Stein der Weisenstands for the semiconductorsilicon which functions as thebasis for the world of comput-ers. Around the chemical ele-ment silicon scientists andartists show exciting projects:floating locomotives, touch-able atoms and webs of giantspiders with physical formsbeing projected on them...

Robots and Spider Webs in the Parliament

..The Spider Project is considered to be the highlight. During the exhibition,spiders from Madagascar are expected to spin huge webs being nearly onemeter in diameter. These webs function as a projection screen for physicalspiral structures if a light veil of water is sprinkled on them. The GermanPhysics Society assures all arachniphobes that the animals are nontoxic...

Kölnische Rundschau, Cologne. 5.9.00

...Especially worth seeing is the “Black Box” inwhich 21 spiders of the species Nephila sene-galensis spin their webs. A video projector letsnarrow cones of light fly through the web: newpatterns and perspectives keep appearing inthe tangle of the silvery threads sprinkled by aveil of water - that is enchanting painting withlight...

...The physicists have ventured something unusual: for the first time they have designed an exhibition with the Cologne Academy ofMedia Arts. Apart from sparking induction machines, solar mobiles and glass fiber cables, one can also see video installations,sound sculptures and the Spider Project by the New York artist Clea T. Waite. Waite interprets particle physics’ hidden world in herown way: in a dark and misty glass cage, 50 spiders from Madagascar spin their webs and thus provide a three-dimensional projec-tion screen which functions as living background for images of particles traces in a bubble chamber...

Die Zeit, Germany. 21.9.00

General-Anzeiger, Bonn. 16.9.00

...The artist Clea T. Waite demonstrates in which way spiders have somethingto do with physics: 23 living animals from Senegal spin three-dimensional webswhich function as a natural screen for projections from particle physics...

...Apart from various scientifically inter-esting objects, the former Parliamentpresents a kind of art which makes useof physical rules. The Spider Project issuch a peculiar installation. Clea T.Waite, an artist from New York, charac-terizes it as a “mandala-vivarium”.Spiders from Madagascar spin websnearly one meter in diameter. To makethem visible, a veil of water is sprinkledon these natural works of arts. At thesame time video-screens show spiraland circular motions of substanceswhich can be generated through scien-tific (physical) experiments...

Madagascar Spiders in the BonnParliament

..Spiders from Madagascar are prob-ably the most unusual guests theBundestag in Bonn has ever seen. Inthe former parliamentary building thenon-poisoness crawling animals fromthe south of Africa for one week spinhuge webs one meter in diameterwhich function as an ideal projectionscreen for physical spiral structures ifa light veil of water is sprinkled onthem...

Kölnische Rundschau, Cologne. 15.9.00

General-Anzeiger, Bonn. 5.9.00

...The physicists venture on a singular experi-ment which gets together two totally differentspecies: scientists and artists. The SpiderProject by Clea T. Waite presents non-poisoness spiders from Madagascar as big asthe palm of a hand. They spin huge webs nearlyone meter in diameter which function as projec-tion screen for physical spiral structures when alight veil of water is sprinkled on them. “Theintention to work together with the artists hadbeen planned for a longer time”, Ulrich Breuerfrom the research institute in Jülich says. Nowthe cooperation with the Kunsthochschule fürMedien in Cologne finally happened...