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Molecular aesthetics / edited by Peter Weibel and Ljiljana Fruk

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Weibel, Peter
Fruk, Ljiljana
host institution
Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie Karlsruhe
Author
Molekulare Aesthetik (Symposium) (2011 : Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie Karlsruhe)
"A ZKIII book"--Spine.
Exhibition catalog.
Contents
23 molecules that changed the world / Ljiljana Fruk and Bernd Lintermann : Water ; DNA ; Glucose ; Cellulose ; Carbon dioxide ; B12 ; Fullerene, Buckyball ; Thalidomide ; Quinine ; Progesterone ; Penicillin ; Morphine ; Heroin ; Ethanol ; Dopamine ; Caffeine ; Aspirin ; Urea ; Sulfuric acid ; Stearic acid ; Polyethylene ; DDT ; Ammonia -- Preface / Ljiljana Fruk and Peter Weibel -- Essays and artists : I. Molecular aesthetics: an introduction / Peter Weibel : Peter Sedgley ; Gustav Metzer ; HA Schult ; Dieter Roth ; Eduardo Kac ; Critical Art Ensemble and Claire Pentecost -- Felix in Illo Tempore / Éric Alliez -- 2. Molecular beauty / Roald Hoffmann : Blair Bradshaw ; Steve Miller ; Kenneth Snelson ; Julian Voss-Andreae -- III. Art and science II. Goedesy in material science / Harold Kroto -- On self-assemblies of nanostructures and why they strike us as beautiful / Pierre Laszlo : James K. Gimzewski and Victoria Vesna ; David S. Goodsell ; Antony Gormley -- IV. The aesthetics of molecular forms / Tami I. Spector -- Molecular aesthetics: blind alleys and promising fields / Joachim Schummer -- Aesthetic resources for molecular knowledge / Chris Toumey : Drew Berry ; Jaq Chartier ; David Glowacki ; John McCormack -- V. Aesthetics, media, sciences, and technologies: an integral tetrahedron / Robert Root-Bernstein -- Abstract science / Roald Hoffmann -- Molecular songs / Thierry Delatour : Gints Gabrān ; Seiko Mikami ; Conrad Shawcross ; Paul Vanouse -- VI. From tangible to virtual structures: episodes in the art and science of protein structure representation / Eric Francœur -- Aspects of molecular aesthetics / Hermann J. Roth -- Moleculism / Wolfgang M. Heckl : Irving Geis ; Helga Griffiths ; Leonardo Mosso ; Christopher Puzio ; Daniel Young and Christian Giroux -- VII. Double life of the double helix: structural beauty of the molecule of life / Ljiljana Fruk -- Molecular architecture and syergy in organometallic chemistry / Robert E. Mulvey -- Art, architecture, and engineering at the molecular level / Leonard F. Lindoy : David Clark ; Guiliana Cunéaz ; Joe Davis ; Richard Buckminster Fuller ; Shane Hope ; Andreas Horlitz ; Skylar Tibbits and Arthur Olson
Summary
"Thanks to advances in molecular science and microscopy, we can visualize matter on a nanoscale, and structures not visible to the naked eye can be visualized and characterized. The fact that technology allows us to transcend the limits of natural perception and see what was previously unseeable creates a new dimension of aesthetic experience and practice: molecular aesthetics. This book, drawing on an exhibit and symposium at ZKM/Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, documents aesthetic developments in what Félix Guattari called the 'molecular revolution.' Just as artists in the Bauhaus movement began to use such industrial materials as metal, Plexiglas, and alloys as raw materials, artists today have access to new realms of the molecular and nano. The industrial aesthetic of machinery and material has been transformed into an aesthetic of media and molecules. Molecular Aesthetics suggests ways in which art can draw inspiration from the molecular sciences--and ways in which science can use art to make experimental results more intelligible and comprehensible. The authors of the essays collected in the book discuss the creation of molecules of remarkable beauty and the functional properties that stem from a few geometrical principles of molecular design; address the history of molecular structure representation; examine the meaning of molecular aesthetics for scientists; and compare chemical structures to artworks"--Provided by publisher.
2013
©2013
Type
Exhibitions
Exhibition catalogs
Physical description
480 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm + 1 pair of 3D glasses
Smithsonian Libraries
Topic
Art and science
Science in art
Molecules--Models
Record ID
siris_sil_1040920
Metadata Usage (text)
CC0

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