SON[I]A #404
Laura Tripaldi
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Navigating the nano scale is like exploring a whole universe within the tiniest of spaces. The familiar laws of physics take on an alien quality, and intuition runs smack into its own limitations. Our senses, honed by evolution to perceive the macroscopic world, struggle to relate to the nuances of the nano domain. What we see, touch, or feel in our everyday world bears little resemblance to the strange behaviours unfolding at the nano scale, where materials exhibit properties that defy conventional wisdom, forces wield unexpected power, and structures emerge with mind-boggling complexity.
Writer and independent researcher Laura Tripaldi started her career in materials science and nanotechnology. But instead of approaching chemistry through the lens of the microscope, she decided to zoom out to a speculative point of view at the intersection of science, technology, art, and philosophy. In her work, Tripaldi uses the nano scale to challenge preconceived ideas about identity, artificiality, neutrality and reality itself, exploring how technologies construct and transform our bodies, minds, and societies. Her exploration of this hidden world invites us to question assumptions and paves the way for a new kind of intuition—one that transcends the confines of the macroscopic world and embraces the subtleties of self-assembling structures and soft bodies without clearly defined surfaces.
We talk to Laura Tripaldi about surfaces, interfaces, the intelligence of materials, spider silk, softness, colloids, rocks and technologies of gender.
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