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Nanotech + Art After reading The Nanomeme Syndrome: Blurring of fact & fiction in the construction of a new science By Jim Gimzewski and Victoria Vesna, I got a better understanding of the Nano size and how nanotechnology will drastically change the future of humanity. The direction of this field is beneficial to aid environmental issues, advancing the medical field, engineering, and changing the human biology. Connecting the article to the lecture videos I kept asking myself, how is this going to change the way we view art? considering everything Nano related is invisible to the naked eye.              The first artwork I consider is the pattern created by The Scanning Tunneling Microscope (STM) that was created in 1980 by IBM. This device was new form of a microscope that used a needle to map the surface of an atom and sent the images to a computer. This image illustrates the depth mapping of silicon. With a computer program the map can be colored to express