Bubble Gum by Ricardo Tranquilin (Brazil), NanoArt, Cris Orfrescu.
Powerful microscopes reveal hidden landscapes and artists turn those images into art.
NanoArt is a glimpse into an unbelievably tiny world that only a small number of scientists have viewed. For the average person, the realm of nanotechnology - that is, structures smaller than a billionth of a meter - is as remote and inaccessible as the moon.
But nano artist Cris Orfrescu wanted to change that. He created the NanoArt Exhibition to share the beauty of the nano-world with those of us living in the macro-world.
Using electron microscopes, scientists capture images of nano-sized landscapes and then colorize them with digital photography software in order to create pieces of art.
The following images are winners from the 2011 competition. Although you may be interested in learning what the image is, Orfrescu wants the public to see the nano-world independent of its source, for just its simple beauty. So with that in mind, we'll give you information about the artist and his or her inspiration, when known.
1. Plasticity in Steel Micro-Pillars
Plasticity in Steel Micro-Pillars by Siddhartha Pathak (USA), NanoArt, Cris Orfrescu.
Siddhardtha Pathak was born in India and studied Metallurgical Engineering. He has a PhD in Materials Science and focuses on steel in his work. He currently works at the California Institute of Technology.
As an artist, he's been featured all over the world. His inspiration comes from testing mechanical forces at the submicron scales.
His images of steel used in space applications won him first place.
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2. Wreck
Wreck by Elena Lucia Constantinescu (Romania), NanoArt, Cris Orfrescu.
Elena Lucia Constantinescu is a scientist in cellular biology. After many years of working with her microscope in the lab, she wanted to share the world she saw.
She said, "I was astonished by the countless possibilities offered by digital technology to turn the photos into artistic images. And I started to draw."
3. Xura
Xura by Bjorn Dampfling, (Germany), NanoArt, Cris Orfrescu.
Bjorn Dampfling grew up in Northern Germany and has been an artist for the last 10 years.
Dampfling likes to use pieces that speak to his artistic sentiments. In this example, he develops "wood into a piece of art, not by hiding its given structures, but by enhancing, twisting, colouring and using dozens of plates...(and) painting digitally into the images."
4. Fissure I
Fissure I by Carol Flaitz (USA), NanoArt, Cris Orfrescu.
Artist Carol Flaitz is married to an IBM electron microscopist and was awed by images he would bring home. She began to paint the pieces large scale using various materials in combination with the images to create texture.
She says that her work is a reflection of her own marriage, where art and technology unite.
5. Birth of the World
Birth of the World by Daniela Caceta (Brazil), NanoArt, Cris Orfrescu.
Daniela Caceta works on computer-generated artwork in Brazil. When using an electron microscope, she encounters interesting features such as formation, growth, development and mostly, the morphology of nano-structures.
She talks of her works as an extension of the ancient Greek manipulation of dyes and pottery. She said they "were unaware of the size of the particles with which they were dealing, (but) they created colourful pottery glazes by manipulating nano-sized particles."
6. Spirals
Spirals by Rorivaldo de Camargo (Brazil), NanoArt, Cris Orfrescu.
Rorivaldo Camargo was born in San Carlos and has spent eight years in electron microscopy.
Five years ago, he began working with NanoArt and has magnified items up to a million times before colorizing them and displaying them around the world.
7. Alumina Nano-Hairs
Alumina Nano-Hairs by Simona Barison (Italy), NanoArt, Cris Orfrescu.
Simona Barison graduated as a researcher of material science and is working on the synthesis and characterization of materials. She also focuses on advanced components for fuel cells and cooling devices in the Department of Energy and Transport.
These beta-alumina nano-hairs are seen under an electron microscope and came about through a physical reaction.
8. Quasi-Crystal Blossoms
Quasi-Crystal Blossoms by Teja Krasek (Slovenia), NanoArt, Cris Orfrescu.
Teja Krasek has a degree in painting, and her work is focused on symmetry as a linking concept between art and science. She uses computers and traditional painting for colourization.
She enjoys a shape's inner relations and incorporates mathematical relationships in her art, including "Fibonacci sequences, inward infinity and perceptual ambiguity."
9. Entanglio, based on quantum entangled particles
Entanglio by Jack Mason (USA), NanoArt, Cris Orfrescu.
Jack Mason has been creating his "nano-graphs" since 2002. As a journalist covering the commercialization of nanotech, he became fascinated with the scientific images that were part of the stories he was reporting.
His pieces are developed using layers of atomic or molecular-scale images and structures.
10. Colourized Bird Nest
Colourized Bird Nest by Joel Kahn (USA), NanoArt, Cris Orfrescu.
Joel Kahn has been combining math, geometry and computers to produce artworks.
He uses a powerful programming environment called BASIC-256 to artfully represent his images. In this case he used a previous image and altered the colours and details of the original image.
The original image (Bird Nest) was provided by Cris Orfescu to those who do not have access to electronic microscopy.
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