Aer()sculpture: Inventing skies and micro-clouds into diaphanous sculptures made of the space technology nanomaterial silica aerogel
Aer()sculpture: Inventing skies and micro-clouds into diaphanous sculptures made of the space technology nanomaterial silica aerogel
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DOI：
10.1007/s10971-017-4370-7
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发表时间：
2017-12-01
影响因子：
2.5
通讯作者：
Dann, Bronwyn
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作者：
Michaloudis, Ioannis;Dann, Bronwyn
“我突然想到，那颗小小的豌豆，美丽而蓝色，就是地球。我竖起拇指，闭上一只眼睛，我的拇指遮住了地球。我不觉得自己是个巨人。我觉得自己非常、非常渺小”。当宇航员尼尔·阿姆斯特朗（Neil Armstrong）在踏上月球的经历中说出这些话时，他严格地表现为视觉艺术家：闭上一只眼睛，试图测量他面前的地球。他把这颗巨大的行星看成是一颗小小的豌豆。如果宇宙是未来的缪斯女神，那么空间美的维度是什么？为什么，在地球上，我们更喜欢巨大的艺术品/图腾，而我们低估了微缩模型？气候变化与高潮（climate，希腊语中的“规模”和“阶梯”）之间的关系是什么？在本文中，作者将试图回答这些问题，提出他的两个作品，天空市场和埃弗博斯头的寓言和象征。作者的研究和艺术作品都是关于纳米材料二氧化硅气凝胶一种类似于我们的天空的空灵（im）材料。在过去的4年里，他在三个不同的国家/气候中生活和实现了他的研究，他与麻省理工学院的地球，大气和行星科学系开展了跨学科的合作研究，研究在他的雕塑的透明体内模仿移动的微云的可能性，这些雕塑由空间纳米技术二氧化硅气凝胶制成。这项跨学科研究的创造性冒险也具有技术应用，因为它可以推动对温室和气候变化现象的小气候实验的生物模拟的科学可视化。
"It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn't feel like a giant. I felt very, very small". When astronaut Neil Armstrong said those words on his experience setting foot on the moon, he acted strictly as a visual artist: shutting one eye and attempting to measure the Earth in front of him. And he perceived the scaling of the giant planet as a tiny pea. If Cosmos will be the muse of the future, what are the dimensions of Space Beauty? Why, on Earth, do we prefer massive artworks/totems and we underestimate miniatures? What could be the relations between climax (the Greek word for scale and ladder) and climate change? In this paper the author will attempt to answer these questions presenting the allegories and symbolisms of two of his artworks, Skymarket and Ephebos Head. The author's research and artworks are all about the nanomaterial silica aerogel an ethereal (im)material resembling our sky. Living and realizing his research in three different countries/climates the last 4 years, he has initiated collaborative interdisciplinary research with MIT's Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences on possibilities to imitate moving micro clouds inside the diaphanous body of his sculptures made of the space nanotechnology silica aerogel. The creative venture of this interdisciplinary research also has technological applications as it could drive to a scientific visualisation on bio-mimicry of microclimatic experimentations on greenhouse and climate change phenomena.