a Nano Step for Mankind
players: Deepak Srivastava (Nasa), Victoria Vesna (UCLA), Sarah Diamond (Banff Centre), and many others… in 2003
The following text was written in the context of the Carbon versus Silicon think tank, gathering artists and scientists at the Banff Centre in 2003. During the conference, I was impressed by the high scientific level of the participants, and I felt embarrassed by my position as an artist, hardly trying to get the big picture. I was just wondering about the legitimacy of most of the graphic representations of the nano world that was for me more interpretations and justifications of theories, as if one would be trying to persuade the audience of the credibility of a desirable fiction.
I decided to do a performance for my conference. The text of my power point presentation should be at the same time and the definition of an art project questioning the scientific and/or aesthetic issues of the emerging nanotechnologies.
Probably because of the complexity of its features, this project has never been done.
Arty-Fiction
Tractacus Nano-Sociologicus