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Sensing Nanotechnologies through the Arts: Seeing and Making on the Surface of Things
- Leonardo
- The MIT Press
- Volume 47, Number 1, 2014
- pp. 36-42
- Article
- Additional Information
The author assesses the role played by the surface in selected nanoscience and nanotechnology (N&N) practices by examining the interaction between surfaces and their viewers. In N&N, issues of scale and perception challenge those involved in science-art projects, forcing them to engage with nano-objects and surfaces by using either highly specialized instruments or metaphors. The most interesting examples of nano-based artworks give the audience the opportunity to interact with N&N through haptic sensing.