There's plenty of room at the Bottom
Installation, Landscape, Various materials, 300x200x200cm
The sinking of the petrol tanker Haven in the roadstead of Genova was one of the Mediterranean’s most serious episodes of hydrocarbon pollution, and its consequences are still being felt in spite of efficient cleaning up operations.
To mark the disaster’s 20th anniversary, the artist has created a new multimedia work inspired by technological research which has taken place at the IIT (Italian Technology Institute) and in consultation with professor Alberto Diaspro, director of the Nano-physics unit at the same institute. The installation is linked to the theme of sea pollution and environmental protection, thus highlighting one of the missions of the Muvita Foundation. the project’s promoter.
Making use of a new sponge resulting from recent IIT research into porous nano-structured materials, and reasoning on its possible use for “capturing” hydrocarbons spilt into the sea, the work itself is a way of prompting reflection on technology’s contribution to dealing with environmental disasters caused by man.
In this way the installation become a place for encounters, discussions and interaction between different disciplines such as science, ecology and art. It is an occasion for creating a constructive and plural dialogue on such important common resources as the environment, and in this specific case, the sea.
Precisely by playing on the ambiguity of the word bottom/fondo, which can suggest the depths of the seabed, the work borrows as its title the celebrated phrase “There’s plenty of room at the bottom”, with which, in 1959, Richard Phillips Feynman, the American scientist considered the father of nano-technology, gave a fundamental boost to that scientific research which aims at accessing the “small” in order to control and modify it.
To mark the disaster’s 20th anniversary, the artist has created a new multimedia work inspired by technological research which has taken place at the IIT (Italian Technology Institute) and in consultation with professor Alberto Diaspro, director of the Nano-physics unit at the same institute. The installation is linked to the theme of sea pollution and environmental protection, thus highlighting one of the missions of the Muvita Foundation. the project’s promoter.
Making use of a new sponge resulting from recent IIT research into porous nano-structured materials, and reasoning on its possible use for “capturing” hydrocarbons spilt into the sea, the work itself is a way of prompting reflection on technology’s contribution to dealing with environmental disasters caused by man.
In this way the installation become a place for encounters, discussions and interaction between different disciplines such as science, ecology and art. It is an occasion for creating a constructive and plural dialogue on such important common resources as the environment, and in this specific case, the sea.
Precisely by playing on the ambiguity of the word bottom/fondo, which can suggest the depths of the seabed, the work borrows as its title the celebrated phrase “There’s plenty of room at the bottom”, with which, in 1959, Richard Phillips Feynman, the American scientist considered the father of nano-technology, gave a fundamental boost to that scientific research which aims at accessing the “small” in order to control and modify it.
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