DESMA 9 Maya V

  Nanomandala by Victoria Vesna,related to unit 8 nanotechnology because it connects the micro and the macro. It also connects “different levels of human experience and human realities and different artistic materials and artistic media into a full blown audience experience” (Claudia Schnugg, Victoria Vesna, "Nanomandala"). This installation is very important to my learning about nanoparticles and nanotechnology from chapter 8. From what I learned about nanotech in chapter 8, this sand installation exemplifies the study of nanoparticles. Since nanotechnology is “the study of [particles] 1 to 100 nanometers” sand obviously cannot be a part of this science due to its size 500,000 nanometers (Gimzewski, “Nanotech for Artists Part 1 - Dr. Gimzewski”). This art piece depicts extremely small grains of sand that display an image to offer a better understanding of how nanotech works within the art field. Nanomandala rearranges each grain of sand in the same fashion that scientists in...

  I learned how nanotechnology relates to space during lecture 1 at 3:30. After Dr. Poreda studied a huge crater, which he found buckyballs inside of. These balls were “born in space [and] survived meteor impact” (Vesna). Through studying the micro origins of the buckyballs, Dr. Poreda stated that his “results show[ed] clearly that [the] helium and, and these buckyballs, are of extraterrestrial origin” due to the fact that the carbon molecules arrived to the earth’s surface still intact. He stated that if the carbon was still intact upon arrival then it is “likely that other organic compounds can also survive an impact” (Dr. Poreda). This is very interesting to me because it ties together how studying nanotechnology can give you answers to questions in regards to space. There would really be no other way to answer certain questions in regards to space without studying the nano materials of certain substances, like craters. O'Dale, Charles. "A Crater of Cosmic Proportions"...