Katherine Mangu-Ward | March 14, 2008
Worried about "the
elusive dangers of nanotechnology mixed with the recklessness [of]
capitalism"?
Have I got the "interactive/walk-through sculpture that educates" with "sensor-equipped sniffing sculptures" for you!
"Inside the Wave" is a showcase of six Tijuana/San Diego artists. One part of the exhibit features disembodied Spanish, English, and German voices saying:
"Your carbon is our lifeblood! Your matter is our market! Your DNA is all we need!"
Whoever wrote up the event for the San Diego Union-Tribune seems as baffled as I am, noting that "It isn't entirely clear what the health effects are of the strangely-named nanoparticles (like carbon buckyballs or halogenated phenoxy)."
Read about what our future with nanotechnology and capitalism will be like in Todd Seavey's "Neither Gods Nor Goo." (Hint: no apocalypse, lots of stain resistant pants.)
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Uh, yeah, the health effect of a buckyball really comes into play when you have a fine powder of them all over the floor. You will find out real quick that gravity is indeed THE LAW.
Nanoscale ball bearings?
Bucky ball black ice
I slipped on lab linol'em
Effing engineers
friday...late in the day...all these big words...
i'll have to come back to this post on monday.
Shit. Try again.
Art haiku cheated.
Apostrophes not allowed.
Must spell-check often.
Grey goo good God gross
nano not nearly needed
Let's learn liking laws.
Jeez, actually broke a sweat on that one.
As particle group contributor and poet Amy Cowell said,
"When things become a part of everyday life, they're not a question
anymore."
Thanks Amy for clearing it all up. That explains why cigarette
smoking hasn't delined
by ~50% in 40 years.
Sheesh!
Haiku excuse -
My mother was horribly frightened by a Japanese poet when she was
carrying me. As a result I am unable to compose or appreciate
Haiku.
I hope you all understand.
I think it's high time that journalists started routinely placing "artist" in scare quotes.
I think it's high time that journalists started routinely placing "artist" in scare quotes
For some "reason" I just got the mental image of Jack Kevorkian,
lit like Boris Karloff, hooking a Euthanasia machine up to some
unfortunate oldster. Above it, the headline blares: "But is it
art ?"
Worried about "the elusive dangers of nanotechnology mixed
with the recklessness [of] capitalism"?
Oh yes, I am worried! After all, capitalism killed millions of
innocent people and destroyed whole economies and enslaved... Oh,
wait, that was the recklessness of ANTI-Capitalism...
Then, no, I am not worried.
sculpture that educates on the elusive dangers of
nanotechnology mixed with the recklessness (of)
capitalism.
I applaud this necessary effort. After all, the dangers of
capitalism and technology are so elusive that
without these sculptures no one would know they exist.
The irony that the sculptures themselves are high-tech merely adds
to my admiration.
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