Art of the invisible: Exploring the world of nanotechnology 
(Gus Fisher Gallery, Fine Arts)
8 February 2013 to 23 February 2013
This exhibition presents images from the work of New Zealand graduate students who research in the field of nanotechnology. Nanotechnology is the science of manipulating matter at an atomic and molecular scale and has far-reaching applications. The Invisible World presents this incredible field of research in a new artistic context, and underlines the unexpected beauty found in these fascinating scientific images.
The exhibition is held in conjunction with AMN6: the Sixth International Conference on Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology, to be held at The University of Auckland Business School, 11-15 February 2013.
Opening event
Friday 8 February, 6pm, Gus Fisher Gallery
Speaker: Professor Stuart McCutcheon, Vice-Chancellor of The University of Auckland
Lecture: "A Science All About Change"
Wednesday 13 February, 6pm, Auckland Museum Events Centre
Speaker: Emeritus Professor Roald Hoffmann, theoretical chemist at Cornell University and winner of the 1981 Nobel Prize for Chemistry
Tickets $15/$10 concessions
The MacDiarmid Institute for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology, in association with the Royal Society of New Zealand and the Auckland Museum Institute, bring you a special opportunity to hear Nobel Laureate Roald Hoffmann.
In this generously illustrated lecture, several views of chemistry will be presented, stressing its psychological dimension and links to the arts. Hoffmann writes: “Chemistry is, and always has been, the art, craft, and business of substances and their transformations. It is now also the science of microscopic molecules both simple and complex.”
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Discussion: "The nervous motion between art, narrative and science"
Saturday 16 February, 1pm, Gus Fisher Gallery
Speaker: Emeritus Professor Roald Hoffmann, theoretical chemist at Cornell University and winner of the 1981 Nobel Prize for Chemistry
Admission free
Professor Hoffmann will discuss the images on display in “Art of the Invisible” in Gallery One. Hoffmann has recently written for American Scientist on images of nanotechnology, asking, “[why] build stories around the images of the nano-world? An object can have multiple uses, both material and spiritual. The images we see are beautiful. That beauty is complemented by the intellectual beauty the scientist perceives in the surface, as he or she thinks hard about it. Beauty resides, Kant said…in the interplay of cognition and imagination.”
Discussion: "Where is the soul in science, and where should it be?"
Saturday 23 February, 1pm, Gus Fisher Gallery
Speaker: Dr Cather Simpson
Admission free
Dr Simpson joined The University of Auckland in 2007 to establish and direct a new multi-user ultrafast laser spectroscopy and microfabricator facility, the Photon Factory. She is also a Principal Investigator in the MacDiarmid Insitute for advanced materials and nanotechnology.
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