Nanoart
：The Immateriality of Art
( 1 )
Publication subTitle ：The Immateriality of Art
Publication series ：1
Publisher： Intellect
Publication year： 2013
E-ISBN: 9781783200498
P-ISBN(Paperback): 9781841507088
P-ISBN(Hardback): 9781841507088
Subject： J0-05 Art and other sciences)
Keyword： 能源与动力工程,一般工业技术
Language： ENG
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Description
Nano is Greek for dwarf and the word nanotechnology ‘was first proposed in the early seventies by a Japanese engineer, Norio Taniguchi, implying a new technology that went beyond controlling materials and engineering on the micrometer scale that dominated the 20th Century’. The content for this book has been based on a self-emergent process. It explores an art historical understanding of matter and uses various hypotheses to elucidate the effects on materiality and agency as a result of the emergence of nanotechnology. The blurring of material boundaries are reflected in the establishment of a fluid organic spatial narrative in which to place ideas, propositions and concerns. A cornerstone of the book is the concept posed in the philosophical writings of Lucretius of the unpredictability of the atoms’ swerve and its formative role in the beginning of all matter, form, life and individuality. It focusses on the concepts of vibration, vitalism, life and materiality and extends the artist’s concepts of agency in relation to matter.