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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...

Santiago Ramón y Cajal, who is known as the father of modern neuroscience, created many phenomenal drawings that clearly illustrated the structure of the brain. Long before neuroimaging's existance, Cajal crafted drawings from countless brain cell observations. He realized that the brain was a network of neurons, and down his path of contributions, he earned a Nobel prize in 1906. Here are two of his illustrations, Mammalian Retina on the left, and the nueral circuitry on the right.  Artist and neurologist  Dr. Greg Dunn and Dr.Brian Edwards who is an artist and applied physicist created a project named Self Reflected. It shows an accurate representation of a slice of brain through a technique called microetching. Dunn stated that Self Reflected's purpose is to mirror the functioning of the viewer's mind. it is a direct reflection of human conciousness. T wo neuroscience undergraduate students at the University of Pennsylvania, Melissa Beswick and Carl Wittig, contrib...

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