Interesting discussion about Art and Atoms.
Sorry to go back in a time to Hugos post.
> First of all, I would like to say everything is connected somehow in my
> opinion. This search of relations is what allows me to open my mind and
> play (very important concept in arts).
The relationship of art to atoms has a long history.
For my own part I was interested in the work of the Italian futurist
Boccioni (as an artist influenced by Bergson) who visualised the
connectivity of matter.
But looking back at art history from this point in time our nano mediated
perception changes our conscious understanding of the past and being in the
world now. Nano art as a form needs time to explore relationships to the
technology that creates these new understandings. In the same way artists
are using emerging technologies to explore relevant ways to express and
represents Nano art.
I also wanted to bring to your attention an exhibition though it is not
directly talking about fusion and fission but might be of interest.
Art in the age of nanotechnology
24 September - 29 November
The unique works developed for art in the age of nanotechnology will operate
at the intersection of art, science, technology, demonstrating innovative
examples of contemporary art and scientific collaboration.
The exhibition will comprise of a series of collaborative projects designed
to challenge, explore and critique our understanding of the material world
and will bring together artists and scientists from the around the world to
present new ways of seeing, sensing and connecting with matter that's
miniscule and abstract.
The exhibition will feature internationally-recognised artists and
scientists such as Christa Sommerer (Austria) and Laurent Mignonneau
(France); Anne Niemetz (NZ)and Andrew Pelling (Canada); Paul Thomas (Aus) &
Kevin Raxworthy (Aus); Mike Philips (UK); Boo Chapple (Aus) & William Wong
(Aus); and Victoria Vesna (USA) & James Gimzewski (USA).
http://johncurtingallery.curtin.edu.au/exhibitions/future.cfm
All the best
Paul
On 12/06/09 11:36 PM, "hugo martinez-tormo" <hugo@hugomartineztormo.es>
wrote:
> Hello yasminers.
>
> First of all, I would like to thank Guillermo for his invitation to this
> discussion about arts and atoms, and to comment and share part of my work
> also. Such a nice guy.
>
> First of all, I would like to say everything is connected somehow in my
> opinion. This search of relations is what allows me to open my mind and
> play (very important concept in arts). Between atoms, its interactions,
> properties, features and what we can see, what surrounds us, what we are,
> it exists connections. Everything is connected, directly or indirectly.
>
> Regarding to the term nanorealism, this is a concept I have developed due
> to all contradictions and superficiality around the nanoart concept I
> found. Something similar between Pop art developed in USA and European
> Nouveau Réalisme of Klein, Arman, Manzoni o César. Same purpose but
> radically opposite ways. Pop art was always far more direct and it had
> lighter visual concept, closer to mass perception. However, interests
> around Europe were not the same, but manners were different. They wanted
> to go back to reality in opposition to abstract painting lyricism but
> avoiding the figuration in arts; offering a new vision of the world around
> them. That¹s, more or less, what is happening here with term
> ³nanorealism², taking more reference from concept than shape, from content
> than container. In my opinion, someone who takes an electronic sweep photo
> and then colours it in photoshop or uses real images of the matter in
> nanometric scale is not enough. Artists may arouse new sensations in
> people, to show how we sense or perceive the world with a personal point
> of view and different from any other, that is why I see much more
> interesting to deal with concepts directly, like going into the matter and
> energy properties and phenomenon in a nanometric scale to communicate
> feelings, perceptions or situations which can be found in our human being
> scale, for example.
>
> A good example to visualize what I¹m saying is the atomic fusion and
> fission. Why to present fusion instead of represent it? In the great
> majority of artistic art pieces which talk about this topic is visualized
> the typical huge mushroom shape as the produces by the explosion. In arts
> world, would it not be better to work, think and go into fusion and
> fission concept in depth to produce an art piece? Why not to take the
> meaning of union, unification to communicate fusion? This thinking could
> drive us into interdisciplinarity, or even better, into multidiscilinarity
> expressed in an only art piece to communicate fusion concept. The
> execution of an art piece using several artistic disciplines together
> would bring the concept of fusion into a different scale, keeping original
> concept. Conceptually, as thinking in the Theory of Everything, which
> tends to unify and connect, or to fusion, in just one theory all physic
> phenomena or fundamental interactions in nature: gravity, the strong
> nuclear force, the weak nuclear force, and the electromagnetic force.
> Would it not be the biggest example of fusion?
>
> Personally I consider the concept of fission is present in my job, but
> instead of divide a heavy core in two or more small cores, plus some
> derivatives, I prefer to be focus on molecules, because the way to talk
> about a molecule is to deconstruct, or fission, until I get primary
> components, and from that point I build a personal imaginary. That is why
> I feel identify with the topic of the discussion somehow.
>
> I will follow the discussion attentively and visiting posts you all
> attach, due to there are so interesting.
>
> Hugo.
>
>
>
>
>
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