.: politicalmaterial

Friday 21 April 2017

politicalmaterial

I've been creating the base material for the clean-room wear that I want to make. Whilst explaining the process to a student I realised that the work had an underlying political reading - the material is made by lazer cutting and heat bonding an American dust sheet with an emergency blanket from China.

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unfolding thinking

Artist Les Bicknell is in residence at Cambridge NanoTech DTC collaborating with PhD students and academics.

This blog documents the process and the work.

unfolding thinking seeks to extend our understanding between cutting edge science and contemporary art, specifically making connections between nanotechnology and the making of bookworks.

The project will embed an artist within the new Maxwell Centre in Cambridge University working within the labs and making space, engaging with research students to generate a body of new artwork informed by the engagement with nanotechnology.

A series of ongoing interventions within the space will generate creative discussion and enable new possibilities and ways of thinking mirroring the 'blue sky' thinking aims of the Nano Doctoral Training Centre (NanoDTC).

The project will recognise similarities, explore possible confluence and develop connections by researching and deconstructing the physical and theoretical concerns of scientists working in the nanotechnology field within the framework of an artist's practice and creative thinking. The project seeks to build links with the science community, develop audiences for the arts and promote the role of the arts in science, technology, engineering and maths.

Funded by Arts Council England, Maxwell Centre (NanoDTC) and supported by Norwich University of the Arts.