3D Printed Art Smaller Than an Ant's Forehead

Posted by timothy on Saturday November 15, 2014 @10:25PM from the my-usual-measure-is-a-newt's-nostril dept.

ErnieKey (3766427) writes Artist Jonty Hurwitz has created the world's smallest sculptures: nanosculptures, no wider than a human hair and unable to be seen without an electron microscope, created using a specialized 3D printing process. Hurwitz says this project was 'Art, literally created with Quantum Physics.' While this seems quite a claim, it seems to be very well deserved. Hurwitz enlisted a team of approximately 15 people to help him bring his vision to life. After scanning his models in a 200-camera array, the sculptures were printed — with advice from the Weizmann Institute of Science — using a 3D print technique by the Institute of Microstructure Technology at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, with multiphoton lithography used for the fine detail work.

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Art schmart by Anonymous Coward · 2014-11-15 23:38 · Score: 0, Insightful

Why is this news? He created nano stuff with pre-existing technology made to create nano stuff. Who cares if he declares that "this is art"? Ultimately what we are talking about here is not that he did anything original *other* than self-label his creations "art".