INCTMN participa da exposição Nanoarte 2009 em Nova York
26/01/2010 - Veja a exposição online no link: http://nanoart21.org/nanoart2006/index.php
Foto: Photos: Courtesy of NanoArt 21
Nesta competição estão sendo expostas 15 imagens de Nanoarte elaboradas pelos técnicos do INCTMN, Rorivaldo Camargo, Ricardo Tranquilin e Daniela Caceta. O concurso reúne 150 imagens de 42 participantes oriundos dos USA, Brasil, Alemanha, Canadá, Itália, Romania, Holanda, Eslovenia, Philipinas e México.
A Nanoarte é uma expressão artística recente, oriunda da nanotecnologia. Na verdade, as imagens são de materiais em nanoescala, isto é, com dimensão menor que 100 nm que são obtidas por intermédio de microscópios eletrônicos de alta precisão. Desta forma, a utilização de ciência e arte é capaz de transformar sistemas extremamente complexos em formas simples e proporcionar um melhor entendimento das origens dos materiais.
O jornal americano The New York Times publicou matéria sobre a exposição, demonstrando a valorização internacional da Nanoarte.
A Nanoarte é uma disciplina que pode estar localizada em uma área de investigação em que convergem arte, ciência e tecnologia. Os resultados obtidos com as nanoestruturas deram origem à Nanoarte, que foi criada pelos cientistas, por meio de produtos químicos e/ou processos físicos, que podem ser visualizadas a partir de ferramentas poderosas como a microscopia de força atômica.
Veja a exposição online no link::
http://nanoart21.org/nanoart2006/index.php
Leia o artigo do The New York Times
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/01/25/the-art-of-nanotech/
The Art of Nanotech
By BARNABY J. FEDER
(Photos: Courtesy of NanoArt 21)
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By day, Christian Orfescu relies on his training in materials science to run the analytical laboratory at Caleb Technology, a small company in Torrance, Calif., that is using nanotechnology to design improved lithium batteries. When the work day ends, though, Mr. Orfescu’s enthusiasm for the technology bubbles over into his other persona — Cris Orfescu, abstract artist.
Like other artists, Mr. Orfescu, 51, has had many inspirations for his paintings, printmaking and other projects. But the molecular landscapes of various materials, where features are measured nanometers, became a preoccupation in recent years and the jumping off point for his art. So much so, in fact, that Mr. Orfescu began calling his works “nanoart” and, in 2006, organizing annual competitions for other similarly inclined artists.
Such artists face a fundamental hurdle, of course. Nanotechnology is the realm where materials have dimensions of 100 nanometers or less. Since a single hair is roughly 80,000 nanometers wide, nanoscale objects are not only too small to see but too small to photograph with even the fanciest of cameras. It takes devices like scanning electron microscopes to get nanoscale images of any sort. Moreover, since nanoscale particles are smaller than the wavelengths of visible light, the electron images that capture them are studies in gray. (”Whistler’s Mother”, the painting formally known as “An Arrangement in Gray and Black”, looks festive by comparison). Don’t hold your breath waiting for artists from the Realist School to produce “Still Life with Nanotubes and Gold Molecules” or some such work.
For abstractionists like Mr. Orfescu though, such limitations are simply invitations to let color and shape-shifting run wild.
“My work loses the basic scientific information in the end,” Mr. Orfescu conceded. “But with more than 70 percent of the people in the U.S. using products incorporating nanotechnology, I want people to know about it and I hope my art stirs their curiosity to find out more.”
To that end, Mr. Orfescu provides “starter” scanning electron microscope images to artists who want to participate in this year’s online contest. (Be patient, it takes a while to get to the page).
