Week 8 NanoTech + Art

NanoTech is a category of science by itself, manipulating matter on a nano level that our eyes cannot perceive. This week we learned that nanotechnology's current stage of development and its potential of changing art and design's experience.

As Colin Milburn said, we are in a Blue Period of NanoTech and art. Nano operations are tactile and appreciated to some degree, but more importantly the corresponding collapse of the domain of art and the domain of science by meticulous engagements of atomized materiality.  Nanotechnologists such as Don Eigler and James Gimzewski have contributed in the art by producing nano images and exhibiting them in galleries.

Blue Nickel, Don Eigler

This is Nanofacture, the fabrication of nano images. Not to be confused with nanotechnology, which is the manipulation through the image to make, cut, combine, etc...

For example, the scientists at the Department of Energy of UC Berkeley have formulated an invisibility cloak that can cover 3D objects by concealing it from detectable light. The Berkeley researcher Xiang Zhang explained the cloak is constructed from gold nanoantennas. At the moment it is at the scale of covering micro 3D objects, but eventually, it can be developed to a macro scale. 
Demonstration Image, UC Berkeley DOE 

Over the past ten years, Zhang and his team have been researching methods of bending and changing the direction of light using nanotechnology. Co-leader Xingjie Ni stated that "Creating a carpet cloak that works in air was so difficult we had to embed it in a dielectric prism that introduced an additional phase in the reflected light, which made the cloak visible by phase-sensitive detection." 
Manipulating the interaction between light and metamaterials is no simple task, but this project is promising to the future of nanotech and design. 

Works Cited:

"Nanowerk Emerging Technology News."Nanowerk Nanotechnology portal. N.p., n.d. Web. 26 May 2017.

Feder, Barnaby J. "The Art of Nanotech."The New York Times. The New York Times, 25 Jan. 2008. Web. 27 May 2017.

The Nanomeme Syndrome: Blurring of fact & fiction in the construction of a new science. N.p., n.d. Web. 28 May 2017.

http://www.visiblespace.com/JCG-1008-NANO_Paul.pdf

Images: 

http://www.nanowerk.com/nanotechnology-news/id41348.jpg

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