Week Eight: NanoTech & Art

         As society becomes more and more advanced, there has been a stronger desire to understand the material world. This aspiration to comprehend the material world has led artists and scientists from all around the world together in hopes of making discoveries.
Bone Speaker

         NanoTech and Art incorporates so many different branches of their respective cultures which allow these scientists and artists to make rather remarkable inventions and objects. For example, looking at the John Curtin Gallery, I came across Artist Boo Chapple. He is building bone speakers at the nano-scale. Building these speakers at the nano-scale out of bones allows him as an artist to investigate the way our senses work. He is trying to see the best and most efficient way to hear on the speakers so the human experience is sublime.
         Further, another look from the John Curtin Gallery, Paul Thomas & Kevin Raxworthym, through their invention “Nano-essence” have created an interactive audio-visual installation that monitors a person’s breath. Through this data, their breaths are analyzed with an Atomic Force Microscope (AFM) to explore comparisons between, life and death at a nano level. This invention reflects all the opportunities presented with NanoTech and Art. The ability to understand things on a minute scale helps question the composition of life. I truly believe that if there is not a bit of controversy when dealing with Science and Art, then we as a society are not doing enough. Projects like these help create a physical experience to observe a dimensional realm between the scientific and metaphysical world.
17 times more efficient than conventional
chemoradiation therapy against agressive
drug-resistant head and neck tumors. 
Dmitri Lapotko
      Also, I read about a Laser Weapons Physicist, Dmitri Lapotko, who is using lasers to conduct on-demand explosions on an infinitely small scale. Through these explosions, he is destroying cancer cells at the nanoscale. Due to the nano-scale, it has resulted in an efficiency and preciseness unmatched by current treatments. This scientific idea would not have been applicable without Art to provide the required technology, founded by the company Masim. Although this is still in its early stages, I believe it will have a huge positive impact on medicine after it undergoes trials and safety procedures. Being able to stop cancer early and find a safe and effective way of removing cancer at the minute scale will surely save lives.
         To conclude, I truly believe that the cohesion of NanoTech is going to “push us over the edge into the twenty-first century,” as Professor Vesna said in the Nanotech Intro Video. This application of so many different ideas and cultures through NanoTech and Art is allowing ideas and wonders to become reality. Without the science/math/technology aspect, there would be nothing to create or draw. Without the art aspect, there would be no visual reproduction or actual physical evidence of the manipulations. I really enjoyed the readings this week and it amazes me what can be accomplished with a simple dream and a bit of belief.
 Sources
    
            Cox, David. "Could a New Approach to Kill Cancer at Nanoscale Work?" The Guardian.     
                          Guardian News and Media, 11 Apr. 2017. Web. 26 May 2017. 

            Curten, John. "Art in the Age of Nanotechnology." Art.Base. Anonymous, 11 Mar. 2010. Web.         
                          25 May 2017.

V. Vesna, Victoria. Lecture. Nanotech Intro Videos. UCLA, May 26, 2017


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  1. UnknownMay 31, 2017 at 4:11 PM

    I enjoy your opening statement because I agree that as we have advanced people naturally want bigger and better and the objective of nanotechnology is just the opposite and to advance by looking at smaller entities and how we can make more out of what we have. Through the use of nanotechnology we can become more resourceful and hopefully extend life on earth. I completely agree that by combining innovative nanotechnology with art to make it reality we are moving forward to a better tomorrow and to help future generations.

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