Carbon Nanoverse
Can you team up with technology to discover irregularities in carbon?
This virtual reality experience unveiled the complex structures of three widely used carbon materials—graphite, charcoal, and activated carbon. In certain conditions, these forms of carbon can deviate from their standard structures and show remarkably different properties. As you moved through each structure generated by a computational microscope, visitors observed the disorders in these carbon structures, which are marked in red and yellow. This collaboration between artist Andrea Rassell and material scientist Jacob Martin shows how research at the nanoscale can unveil new discoveries on carbon.
Supported by Curtin University, Perth.
Medium: Interactive Web Experience
Year: 2023
Team
Andrea Rassell
Filmmaker
Andrea Rassell is a filmmaker, media 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 multisensory perception of the sub-molecular realm.
Her work has been shown at the New York Imagine Science Festival, Oaxaca FilmFest, the New Zealand International Film Festival, White Night and Sónar+D. Rassell was the 2019 recipient of the Australian Network for Art and Technology's Synapse residency, where she developed moving image works that explore the social and cultural implications of diagnostic systems in collaboration with the Ian Potter NanoBioSensing Facility. In 2020, Rassell was an artist-in-residence with Tecnológico de Monterrey and a member of the ANAT Ideate programme.
Jacob Martin
Scientist
Jacob Martin is a carbon materials scientist and nanotechnologist that studies how we can manufacture carbon for use in the development of renewable energy. He is a physicist, chemist and chemical engineer having completed his PhD at the University of Cambridge in 2020. He then was a research fellow at the Cambridge Centre for Carbon Reduction in Chemical Technology in Singapore working with industry to decarbonise. He is a Forrest Fellow in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Curtin University in Perth, Australia working on advanced carbon materials for decarbonisation with batteries and hydrogen.
