Week 8: Nanotech + Art

http://phys.org/news/2013-02-transplanted-cells-nanotech-checkup.html

Nanotechnology is so influential in our daily lives without us ever evening seeing it. From lecture, we see the paradigm shift that occurs with art and nano-technology. Professor Vesna pointed out the large importance of art and nanotechnology and how is it going to completely change our own perspective. It is such a broad field and impacts almost everything in the art and sciences. Artists such as Paul Thomas and Kevin Raxworthy use their art to interact with nanotechnology. Their artwork is based upon breath where they look at the skin cell where they explore life and death and the atomic level. Their work is revolutionary in the field and is used to explore art in a totally new way. 

http://health.howstuffworks.com/medicine/modern-technology/gold-nanotech1.htm

The effects extend greatly into medicine and health. Nano particles can help save lives at the microscopic level. Nanotechnology has allowed for us to interact with the human body at the cellular level and can go in and clean the body of various toxins. This revolutionary field of using nanotechnology is very beneficial to medicine. 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Centre_for_Nanotechnology

Art has been a gateway for humans to feel and see the inter workings of nanotechnology. “Art in the age of Nanotechnology” questions the material world and challenges our perspective on it. The article purposes a way to connect art on the minuscule level abstractly and shows the intersection between art, science, and technology. The fields really come into contact in the nano-scape project where it allows for humans to actually touch and feel nano particles. The user wears large metallic rings and the brush over an interface as they feel the magnetic forces of attraction and repulsion. Nano technology is a new and revolutionary field and expands over a wide range of fields.

Sources

1) “Art in the Age of Nanotechnology.” Artabase. N.p., n.d. Web. 24 May. 2015. <http://www.artabase.net/exhibition/2104-art-in-the-age-of-nanotechnology>.

2) “Introduction to Nanotechnology.” Introduction to Nanotechnology RSS. N.p., n.d. Web. 24 May. 2015. <http://nanogloss.com/>.

3) "When Nanotechnology Meets Art”. Science and Religion.com. n.p., 20 Apr 2011. Web. 24 May 2015.

4) Ostman, Charles. “Aesthetic Exploration in the ‘Virtual Nature’ of Synthetic Environments and Artificial Ecologies”. Nanotechnology Now. n.p., n.d. Web. 24 May 2015.

5) "'Nanobamas' fuse art, science, technology and politics."Sciencecentric.com. Science Centric, 15 Nov 2008. Web. 24 May 2015. <http://www.sciencecentric.com/art_style/08111501-nanobamas-fuse-art-science-technology-politics.html>.