Nanotechnology is an area of research that Professor Vesna has been closely involved with especially the past decade. Gimzewski who is also a professor at UCLA shares the power of nanotechnology and its ability to alter our word. I honestly had never heard of nanotechnology, but after watching all the lectures I realize how applicable it is in day to day life. There are thousands of nanotech products in the market all with many different uses. Nanoscience and nanotechnology involve the ability to see and to control individual atoms and molecules. Everything on Earth is made up of atoms—the food we eat, the clothes we wear, the buildings and houses we live in, and our own bodies.
Nanomedicine as a field is leading to new forms of therapy and treatment which promises to revolutionize medicine such as help discover tumors before they are untreatable or unpreventable Nanotechnology is so new, no one is really sure what will come of it. Even so, predictions range from the ability to reproduce things like diamonds and food to the world being devoured by self-replicating nanorobots.
As small as a nanometer is, it's still large compared to the atomic scale. An atom has a diameter of about 0.1 nm. An atom's nucleus is much smaller -- about 0.00001 nm.
The exhibition “Art in the Age of Technology” at John Curtin Gallery in Perth demonstrates work such as The "Nanomandala installation consists of a video of a sand mandala going through photographic, microscopic and beyond the visual realm projected onto a disk of sand, 8 feet in diameter." Created by Victoria Vesna this artwork is interactive as viewers can actually touch the sand on the piece.
References:
Gimzewski, Jim. “Nanotech for Artists Part 1". Youtube, uconlineprogram, 21 May 2012, <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7jM6-iqzzE>.
Rothemund, Paul. “DNA Folding, in Detail.” TED: Ideas Worth Spreading, TED, Feb. 2008, <www.ted.com/talks/paul_rothemund_details_dna_folding>.
Vesna, Victoria. Lecture. “Nanotech & Art Intro” 26 March 2012. <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZ3y6TkXJ6Y>.
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As small as a nanometer is, it's still large compared to the atomic scale. An atom has a diameter of about 0.1 nm. An atom's nucleus is much smaller -- about 0.00001 nm.
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The exhibition “Art in the Age of Technology” at John Curtin Gallery in Perth demonstrates work such as The "Nanomandala installation consists of a video of a sand mandala going through photographic, microscopic and beyond the visual realm projected onto a disk of sand, 8 feet in diameter." Created by Victoria Vesna this artwork is interactive as viewers can actually touch the sand on the piece.
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References:
Gimzewski, Jim. “Nanotech for Artists Part 1". Youtube, uconlineprogram, 21 May 2012, <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7jM6-iqzzE>.
Gimzewski, Jim. “Nanotech for Artists Part 3". Youtube, uconlineprogram, 21 May 2012, <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0HCNiU_108>.
Gimzewski, Jim. “Nanotech for Artists Part 4". Youtube, uconlineprogram, 21 May 2012, <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHCuZetAIhk>.
Gimzewski, Jim. “Nanotech for Artists Part 5". Youtube, uconlineprogram, 21 May 2012, <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4OWc8nmHJmY>.
Vesna, Victoria. Lecture. “Nanotech & Art Intro” 26 March 2012. <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZ3y6TkXJ6Y>.
Faith,
ReplyDeleteI liked how you mentioned that you yourself had never heard if nanotechnology but then expanded to say how it surrounds us everyday and we just do realize it. I think that is common for most people as no one is ever exactly sure what is in our consumer goods.