NanoArt 2011 INTERNATIONAL ONLINE COMPETITION

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FREE Entries – Open to All Artists and Scientists – Seed Images of 3
Nanostructures are Provided for Further Artistic Creation
Submission deadline March 31, 2011

NanoArt is a new art discipline at the art-science-technology
intersections. To read more about NanoArt and Nanotechnology please
visit the entire nanoart21.org website. The 5th anniversary edition of
the worldwide competition NanoArt 2011 is open to all artists 18 years
and older. The online exhibition will open for public in April, 2011 .
Jurors: Dr. Anatoli Korkin (PhD in Physics from Moscow Lomonosov State
University) is Associate Research Professor at Arizona State
University and President of Nano & Giga Solutions, a company that
provides research and software development in the area of
computational chemistry and materials design for nanotechnology
applications and consulting and project management in nanotechnology
education, science, and innovation; Hugh McGrory is an Irish filmmaker/
photographer and a NanoArt pioneer who has built a strong reputation
for innovation through experimentation. He was filmmaker in residence
at the Toomre Lab’s CINEMA microscopy department, Yale University
School of Medicine for summer 2007, researching, collecting and
creating moving images of the living cell and exploring the wider area
of scientific imaging. He is now the Creative Director of Culture
Shock Marketing in New York City.
Winners will be notified and published online on May 31, 2011. The
competition will be promoted on different venues online, nanoart21.org
contacts, word-of-mouth. The artists could also promote the
competition on their websites and other venues.

For the 5th anniversary edition of this competition, nanoart21.org
founded by artist and scientist Cris Orfescu (www.crisorfescu.com)
will provide 3 high resolution monochromatic electron scans of
nanosculptures created by Orfescu. The participating artists will have
to alter the provided image(s) in any artistic way to finish the
artistic-scientific process and create NanoArt work(s). The artists
and scientists are strongly encouraged to participate with their own
images as long as these visualize micro or nano structures.
For more information, visit NanoArt 2011 competition site at
http://nanoart21.org/html/nanoart_2011.html