We thank the following organizations for their support:
- TextielLab/TextielMuseum, Tilburg, Netherlands (for their invaluable help in development and production of our textiles)
- Arts, Science, and Culture Initiative at the University of Chicago (for providing the Graduate Collaboration Grant that started this project)
- The City of Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs & Special Events and the Illinois Arts Council Agency for the Individual Artist Grant program
- Earl and Brenda Shapiro Center for Research and Collaboration at the School of the Art Institute (for an Early Concept Research Grant for Exploratory Research)
- Our home institutions for their support during this project, namely
- Department of Fiber and Material Studies and Dean’s Office, SAIC
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Institute for Theory and Computation, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
- Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of Chicago
We are grateful to the following individuals:
- Judith Peskens, Hebe Verstappen, and Errol van de Werdt at the TextielLab
- Rebecca Duclos, Jaclyn Jacunski, and Julie Marie Lemon, who facilitated financial support for our project
- Philip Mansfield for the visualization algorithm used in many of our images
- Our mentors and advisors Kathleen Kiefer, Andrey Kravtsov, Susan Snodgrass, Lynn Tomaszewski, and Frances Whitehead
Acknowledgments for Phase III:
- The team at Adler who curated and built our installation: Neil Adam, Orilla Fetro, Isaac Morales, Quo Raines, Annie Vedder
- Gustavo Silva, production
- Kat Buckley, curatorial
- Sabiha Dohadwala, studio assistance
Acknowledgments for Phase I and Phase II:
- Katerina Williams, our indefatigable production assistant
- The team that facilitated, built and/or developed the Phase I exhibition: David Martinez-Moreno, Heather McKenzie, Heather MacRae, Julie Ann Miller, Elizabeth Pope, and Susanna Kim Vitayaudom