NanoForm

Well, it took a while to get the time and the necessary passwords to start adding stuff to the blog. Meanwhile I have collectef a lot of things that in one way or another connects arts and nano.

Here’s a link to an interesting project by Daniel Sauter:

http://daniel-sauter.com/display.php?project_id=13

Victoria Vesna is probably the artist that has devoted the most to nano science. A lot of her work is pretty good: http://vv.arts.ucla.edu/projects/

and I think this article by Vesna could be of some sort of basic interest: http://vv.arts.ucla.edu/publications/publications/02-03/JV_nano/JV_nano_artF5VG.htm

Art + nano doesn’t necessary means a good and smart result. This is an evidence of that. Just the sound score makes you want to… http://nanoart21.org/

And this kind of stuff is quiet common, so watch out. But you can always learn from bad exaples. At least good ones stands out a bit more, like this one:

http://swamp.nu/projects/notepad.html

I like it since it proposes a reason to make things really small. I bought some notepads from them, so we can have a look at them later.

OK, this was a start, just to show I’m on the track…

Harvard University

In the online version of Technology Review, I found an article detailing a collaborative effort between Ferran Adrià, head chef of the renowned elBulli restaurant in Spain. Ferran was recently at Harvard University to meet his new collaborator, physical chemist Laurent Courbin, an expert in non-Newtonian fluids.

Formations of nanotubes on a wafer.

I was leafing through the latest edition of the Technology Review and happened upon a photo essay titled Growing Nanotube Forests. The essay shows a number of images of formations of nanotubes grown on silicon wafers or in cavities in the wafers. I know that this is just visual, but maybe it can give us some ideas of what is to come at the lab in April?

SVT play t.o.m 16/3

Dali’s surrealist activities and the model of scientific experimentation

At the meeting we had a couple of weeks ago,… sorry about the delay, Theo showed a film that really opens your eyes to the idea of scale. The movie is a real classic created by Ray Eames and her husband, Charles Eames in 1977 for the IBM Corporation. It represents the universe at scales of ten, showing the known universe at 10^24 m (100 million light years) and a single proton at 10^-16 m (a millionth of a nanometer). Take a peak!