Nanotechnology & Art

Nanotechnology provides an impeccable synergy of art, technology, and science. The science being the study of items so microscopic that they are invisible to the human eye. What that requires is the use of advanced technology such as the Scanning Tunneling Microscope. Through tactical sensation and feel, the technology creates an image of items at the smallest of nanometers. This image is essentially art. The intertwined use of multiple fields undermine a general growing trend of the global world where there has been a growing intermingling of people, ideas, and sciences. While viewing all the material from this week, I recognized in ways that nanotechnology is similar to biotechnology. For example the ability to change a nanoparticle from opaque to transparent is akin to genetically modifying the color of flowers or fruits in biotechnology. The most thought provoking topic of the reading was the future implications of nanotechnology. The concept that it will spurt robot technology to the point that robots can go colonize planets on their own and in doing so, turn the universe to a robotic space. While controversial, it is based in reason given how we already use robots to reach further distances in space. As technology continues progress at an exponential rate, it's true impact will be felt later on. Maybe even when it's a little to late according to some scientists. It makes me wonder how much these corporations and scientists weigh in the danger of nanotechnology while continuing to development it.







http://vv.arts.ucla.edu/publications/publications/02-03/JV_nano/JV_nano_artF5VG.htm
http://www.crnano.org/whatis.htm
http://www.understandingnano.com/introduction.html
http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2012-11/7-amazing-ways-nanotechnology-changing-world
http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2006/06/nanotechnology/kahn-text

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  1. UnknownMay 30, 2017 at 12:51 AM

    Great post! I agree that the images the Scanning Tunneling Microscope produces can be considered art itself. Although sometimes artists go back in to recolor an image, natural coloring given off by specific antibody fluorescence is even more fascinating to me! It's as if nature colored its own patterns in the images.

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