Dr. Paul Thomas

DATE:      Tuesday, March 11th 2008, 1-2pm
PLACE:    Interface Culture Lab, Sonnensteinstr.11-13, 2nd floor
Lecturer:  Dr Paul Thomas
Title:        "Nanotechnology & Art: The Midas Project"

The Midas project gathers data from an Atomic Force Microscope focusing on the particles that exist at the interface between skin and gold. The work examines the data gathered at the nano level to investigate how we become part of the world. This research explores and extends principles of visualising the infinite smallness through new technologies. The research investigates question of nanotechnological spatial boundaries and turns the infinitely small into an audible and palpable experience.

Dr Paul Thomas, is the coordinator of the Studio Electronic Arts (SEA) and Co-ordinator Master of Electronic Art at Curtin University of Technology and the founding Director of the Biennale of Electronic Arts Perth (BEAP).

Paul has been working in the area of electronic arts since 1981 when he co-founded the group Media-Space that met weekly and developed a series of artistic resources fitting an Artslab concept. Media-Space was part of the first global link up with artists connected to ARTEX.  From 1981-1986 the group was involved in a number of collaborative exhibitions and was instrumental in the establishment a substantial body of research. In 1995 he founded the group Terminus= an online research group and in 2002. Paul’s own current practice led research is in collaboration with the Nano Research Institute, Curtin University and Symbiotica, University of Western Australia. Paul is currently working on a commissioned public art work for the Curtin Mineral and Chemistry Research Precinct in collaboration with Woods Bagot Architects. Paul is a co-chair of the Media Art Histories conference 2009. He has recently completed his PhD researching a reconfiguration of space. Paul is also a practicing electronic artist who's research can be seen on his website 'Visiblespace'.
www.visiblespace.com