Frederik de Wilde

ART • [Science • Technology] + Society

Project

Nano Painting – Hostage

  • Ars Electronica Next Idea Award
  • Best European Collaboration Award
  • Blackest Black
  • Fine Arts
  • Hostage
  • Nano Art
  • Nano Black
  • Nano Painting
  • Next Idea Award

Abstract

Hostage pt.1 is the title of the blackest black nano engineered artwork (painting)  in the world.

 

Artist Statement

Redrawing the boundaries between art, science, technology and society by applying nano technology to develop the blackest black artworks in the world  able to capture ALL light.

An attempt to redefine traditional painting.

Deep Space is my first artwork.

The contemporary philosopher Giorgio Agamben, following Aristotle, remarks that the fact that we see darkness means that our eyes have not only the potential to see, but also the potential not to see. (If we had only the potential to see, we would never have the experience of not-seeing.)

 

Collaborators

Rice University (USA),  NASA (USA), Michigan University (USA)

 

Award

Ars Electronica – [The Next Idea] Award 2010

Best European Collaboration Award 2011

 

Link

[The Next Idea]

 

 

 

Downloads

Pdf_Nano Painting_detailed info
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Hostage.pt.1
Fig.3: Hostage.pt.1
Rice University Nano Lab 2010
Fig.4: Rice University Nano Lab 2010
Nano Black Material
Fig.5: Nano Black Material
Rice University
Fig.6:
Scanning Electron Microscope Image _ Nano Black Material
Fig.7: Scanning Electron Microscope Image _ Nano Black Material
Ars Electronica Ceremony 2010
Fig.8: Ars Electronica Ceremony 2010
Ars Electronica 2010 _ Next Idea Prize Winner Frederik De Wilde
Fig.9: Ars Electronica 2010 _ Next Idea Prize Winner Frederik De Wilde