Week 8 - NanoTech + Art
In this week's material the artwork that interests me the most is the Nano Mandala created by Professor Victoria Vesna. The artwork consists of a video projected to a disk of sand. The video depicts a recursive scale of view ranging from the nano-structure of a grain of sand to the entire graph of a mandala pattern. The video can be watched below: The Nano Mandala (from YouTube) What I would like to investigate further into the artwork is the resonance between eastern and western culture about one common philosophical idea it conveys. The images of nano-structure of a grain of sand clearly makes use of modern science, which originates from the western culture. On the other hand, the symbol of Mandala in Buddhism is a famous representation of a universe in the eastern culture. Thangka painting of Mandala Also, it is apparent that the artwork aims to ...
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