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October 01, 2007 - In the lastest issue of NATURE, published on 27 Sept., there is an article about Alessandro Scali and Robin Goode’s NANOART project, written by Emiliano Feresin. The article was titled ‘The invisible continent’ and published in the 'Books and Arts' section. The article features one of our favourite nano-artworks, ‘Actual Size’, a nanometric and invisible African continent.
To be published, as artists, on the most famous scientific journal in the world is, for us, immensely satisfying. We want to thank our scientific collaborators at Turin Polytechnic University atomic force microscopy lab: Prof. Fabrizio Pirri and Phd’s Giancarlo Canavese, Alessandro Chiolerio, Gabriele Maccioni, Giacomo Piacenza, Samy Strola, and in the same time the curator of our first personal exhibit, Stefano Raimondi.
Here is the excerpt from Nature.
‘It's a small world
Curated by Stefano Raimondi as part of the BergamoScienza festival in Bergamo, Nan°art may be the smallest show on Earth. Billed as Italy's first nanoscale art exhibition, "per vedere l'invisibile", it features six works by 'nano' artists Alessandro Scali and Robin Goode. Their collaboration with physicist Fabrizio Pirri, from the Turin Polytechnic University atomic force microscopy lab, produced works including Actual Size, a far from actual size map of Africa.’.
Nan°art is, for us, a new frontier, a new boundary, a new media by which we can create and comunicate. We have searched to create an aesthetic paradox. A piece of art that you could never see. Yet that exists and carries a message.
Nan°art is an art project that brings together two distant worlds – art and science – it is being produced by Alessandro Scali and Robin Goode in collaboration with the physics department at the Politecnico di Torino.
The objective, through integrating art and nanotechnology, is to realize artworks in micrometres and nanometres.( A micrometre being a thousandth of a millimetre and around the size of microrganisms and cells.). A nanometre being 0,000001mm’s and smaller than a human cell.
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