NanoVic Art
Prizes
Dr Kristin Alford led the judging
panel for the inaugural NanoVic Prizes for Art &
Nanotechnologies. These
prizes recognise the interdependencies between art and new technology in
imaging new technologies, providing scientific clarity and providing creative
inspiration.
The aims of NanoVic in offering these
prizes are to:
t Celebrate
and promote quality nanotechnology research, development and commercialisation
currently occurring in Victoria and Australia;
t Engage
the public in debate and conversations about nanotechnologies that go beyond
the scientific realm;
t Encourage
ongoing collaboration between science and the arts in recognition of the role
that creativity plays in the innovation process.
Nanotechnology Victoria has awarded two
prizes: one for sceintists displaying real phenomena in a creative way; and
one for non-scientists providing creative interpretations of the
technology. The number and quality of entries was very pleasing and the
winners have provided works which will encourage discussion and interest into
nanotechnologies.
The Prize for Scientists
was awarded for an actual image of nanotechnology taken from research,
development or commercial activities. The winner of the $2000 Science
Prize was Peter Liddicoat of the University of Sydney for his work titled
'Fluidic Evolution of Nano-Particles'. The image was obtained through
Atom Probe Tomography (APT) which enables the decomposition of a specimen atom
by atom, followed by its digital recreation. Peter's APT image is of an
aerospace aluminium alloy in concentration mode.
The Prize for Artists was
awarded to artwork building on nanotechnology themes, not necessarily
generated as the result of scientific work in nanotechnologies, but drawing on
a theme related to nanotechnologies as its inspiration and/or final
representation. The winner of the $2000 Artists Prize was
Michelle Czech of RMIT University for 'Magnetci Field, a
hand-made transfer printing on canvas depciting brightly coloured 'flowers'
inpsired by magentic ferro-fluids.
In addition to the main prizes, NanoVic
CEO Dr Peter Binks also elected to reward other outstanding entries.
Honourable mentions worth $500 each were awarded to Dr Paul Thomas of Curtin
Univeristy for his work on Project Midas showing a finger as the instrument in
an Atomic Force Microscope and to Carolina Novo and Ann Gooding of the
Univeritiy of Melbourne for 'Gold', a scanning electron microscopy image of
chemically synthesised gold nanoparticles of different sizes and
shapes.
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