Giants of the Infinitesimal

The Times review by Peter Forbes

May 2012

Small is beautiful, even when it's big

Giants of the Infinitesimal Book

Coming in 2012

Tom Grimsey & Peter Forbes will be publishing a full colour book “Giants of the Infinitesimal” next year, developing some of the themes in the show in conjunction with other nano-science wonders and curiosities. The book will explore in particular the potential of nano-science as a source of inspiration for making art.

Peter Forbes was awarded the 2011 Warwick prize for Dazzled and Deceived: Mimicry and Camouflage.

Interview with Prof Moriarty

BBC Radio 4, You and Yours

Prof Philip Moriarty interviewed by Kevin Mousley at the Giants of the Infinitesimal Exhibition, MOSI (Museum of Science & Industry), Manchester, on 2 November 2011.

Philip Moriarty is a Professor of Physics and an Engineering & Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) Fellow in the School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Nottingham .

'Sculptors bring nanoscience to life in new exhibition'

Creative Boom, article by Katy Cowan

A sculpture of the beautiful honeycomb lattice of graphene – the super-strong material which led to last year’s Nobel prize – is part of a new exhibition which premieres at MOSI (Museum of Science & Industry, Manchester) this week, alongside sculptures of carbon nano-tubes and porphyrins (the working component in chlorophyll and red blood cells).

In Giants of the Infinitesimal (Running until 31 March 2012), renowned sculptors Tom Grimsey and Theo Kaccoufa have worked with top nano-scientists from the Universities of Liverpool, Nottingham, Sheffield and Glasgow to make the invisible visible by creating large-scale versions of nano-particles which visitors can manipulate in the same way that scientists do in the laboratory. It shows how this exciting new area of science will radically improve many fields, from computing, to energy, to waste reduction.

Art meets science in this fascinating revelation of the minutiae of nature, from a hands-on interactive showing an enlarged version of the tiny chains of nano-particles, known as nano-wire (which are expected to make computing 1000 times faster than current machines), to models showing the constant movement of atoms, and the self assembly of atoms at the nano-scale.

Read full article at the Creative Boom

'Graphene Sculpture'

The Mancunian, Manchester

The sculptors Theo Kaccoufa and Tom Grimsey show an exhibition at the Museum of Science and Industry to celebrate university Professors’ research.

Photo: Jennifer Ho.

Image: Theo Kaccoufa (left) and Tom Grimsey (right) with Graphene kinetic sculpture (above). Giants of the infinitesimal Exhibition at the Museum of Science and Industry.

Read full article at The Mancunian