2022 Illuminate Discussion
THE SOCIETY OF NANOBIOSENSING:
AN INTERACTIVE VIRTUAL MICROSCOPE
FOR MEDICAL NANOTECHNOLOGY
Dr Andrea Rassell
In-Conversation with Dr Deirdre Feeney
The philosopher Alfred Nordmann suggests that nanotechnologies may be increasingly ‘unfathomable when we are asked to imagine their unimaginably intricate workings that lie beyond the reach of our senses.’
The installation The Society of NanoBioSensing responds to Nordmann's concern by creating a virtual microscope and playful interface that allows the visitor to have an embodied experience of medical nanotechnology.
Dr Andrea Rassell will discuss the creation of the installation, which is showing as part of Illuminate Adelaide’s City Lights program. The large scale projection combines hundreds of images collected over 4 months in residence with the Ian Potter NanoBioSensing Facility at RMIT University.
Illuminate Adelaide explores the union between future technology and creative industries and will completely reimagine the Adelaide CBD.
Presented by The Bob Hawke Prime Ministerial Centre and Illuminate Adelaide, as part of the 2022 Illuminate Adelaide Program
EVENT DETAILS
Wednesday 20 July 2022, 6pm - 7.15pm
Allan Scott Auditorium, Hawke Building,
UniSA City West Campus,
55 North Terrace Adelaide MAP
SPEAKERS
DR ANDREA RASSELL
IMAGE ARTIST &
RESEARCH FELLOW, UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA
Andrea Rassell is a moving image artist and interdisciplinary researcher in science art. Working in nanoart — artforms that engage with nanoscience and nanotechnology — she creates experimental films and moving image installations that explore technological mediation and the perception of the nanoscale realm. She is a Research Fellow at SymbioticA and the School of Molecular Sciences, University of Western Australia.
Twitter: @dnanoart
vimeo: Andrea Rassell
DR DEIRDRE FEENEY
LECTURER, UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA
Deirdre Feeney is an artist and Lecturer of Contemporary Art at the University of South Australia. Her cross-disciplinary practice engages with optical image systems as perceptual tools for generating awareness of how emotional experience is technologically mediated. Deirdre’s artworks have been exhibited nationally and internationally and she is a research member of UniSA’s Australian Research Centre for Interactive and Virtual Environments.
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THE BOB HAWKE PRIME MINISTERIAL CENTRE AND ILLUMINATE ADELAIDE
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