Nanononsense_

Date 23rd May
Tags nanotech, national, event

SymbioticA Friday Meeting 

Nanononsense - God, the first nano assembler

Dr Paul Thomas

3.30pm, Friday 23rd May

The Nanoessence project aims to examine life at a sub cellular level, re-examining space and scale within the human context. A single HaCat skin cell is analysed with an Atomic Force Microscope (AFM) to explore comparisons between, life and death at a nano level. The humanistic discourse concerning life is now being challenged by nanotechnological research that brings into question the concepts of what constitutes living.

Dr Paul Thomas, is the coordinator of the Studio Electronic Arts (SEA) at Curtin University of Technology and was the founding Director of the Biennale of Electronic Arts Perth.


Paul has been working in the area of electronic arts since 1981 when he co-founded the group Media-Space. Media-Space was part of the first global link up with artists connected to ARTEX.  From 1981-1986 the group was involved in a number of collaborative exhibitions and was instrumental in the establishment a substantial body of research. In 2000 he founded the Biennale of Electronic Arts Perth. Paul’s own current practice led research the Midas project is in collaboration with the Nano Research Institute, Curtin University of Technology and SymbioticA at the University of Western Australia. Where he is researching the transition phase between skin and gold. Paul is also currently working on an intelligent architecture project for the Curtin Mineral and Chemistry Research Precinct Public art project. The art project will be integrated into the two new buildings that will form the Mineral and Chemistry Research and Education Precinct. Paul is currently the co-chair of the Re:live media art history conference 2009. Paul is a practicing electronic artist whose work has exhibited internationally and can be seen on his website ‘Visiblespace’.

Websites

http://www.symbiotica.uwa.edu.au/activities/friday_afternoons

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