Week 8: Nanotech + Art

At first I was a bit confused about the topic of “nantechonology”. This could be because I’m the not

the brightest kid in the room when talking about science. Literally, if I do not have a pen and paper down to write notes and I’m only suppose to receive information by ear…then you just wasted a few minutes of your life trying to explain something to me. Sorry.

I believe it was when the professor mentioned how Drexler wished to rearrange to molecules of dirt to make a hamburger out of dirt (Youtube), that I began to understand what technology is and how it is associated with art.  It’s, “…new ways of seeing, sensing, and connecting with matter that’s miniscule and abstract, (Anonymous).”

Take for instance the automotive industry. Jeff Dobbs (Global Sector Chairman, Industrial Manufacturing KPMG) comments that these days you do not need to a mine a material to make a product, you can make it yourself. In the automotive industry, nanocomposites are already being used and they have aided in achieving a 10-15 percent weight and strength improvement with a promise of 20-25 percent. (KPMG).

(In case you want more info on nanotech from the perspectives of major company owners who incorporate nanotechnology into their products to come out in the market on top of all the competitors!>>>>>)

Nanotechnology instills the idea of simplicity out of complexity. Like now, we don’t need a certain material to make a certain thing. We don’t need to follow steps to make an end. Instead, we can literally think outside the box and introduce a totally alien or “un-though-of” possibility to an impossibility. I think that it where the relationship to art comes in; the end product of where innovation is born from the once impossible.

This is clip of Malcolm Douglas Chaplin,  winner in the World Guinness Book of Records for creating the world’s smallest book using nanotechonology!

Works Cited

Anonymous. "Art in the Age of Nanotechnology." Art.base. Anonymous, 11 Mar. 2010. Web. 08 

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"Canadian Artist Uses Nanotechnology, Enters Guinness Book of World Records." YouTube. 

                YouTube, 3 Nov. 2012. Web. 7 June 2015.

Gimzewski, Jim. "Nanotech for Artists Part 1 Dr. Gimzewski." YouTube. YouTube, 21 May 2012. 

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Gimzewski, Jim. "Nanotech Jim Pt2." YouTube. YouTube, 21 May 2012. Web. 08 June 2015.

 KPMG Channel. "Art Of The Possible: Nanotechnology." YouTube. YouTube, 8 Dec. 2014. Web. 

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