Anonymous coward .... What's your real name? Www.art.ninj/nano ... All the credits are there... Do your research and please try and keep this thread intelligent and useful.

hey pHalec. Don't give up pushing the boundaries and challenging others to do so. I face so much artistic and scientific pigeonholing - I'll have you know though that pigeons are remarkably intelligent creatures. Fly with it my feathered friend! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P... Being an artist is about challenging the accepted societal mean. Its about creating outlying data points that eventually shift the average opinion.

Direct link to the credits for all aspects of this work are here: http://www.jontyhurwitz.com/na... In several online interviews I have explained that the background images were composited with the sculpture images to help viewers with a sense of scale. Please could Gavin Scott do a little more research and then clarify exactly what his "accusation" is.

I feel your wife's pain. I have been excluded on several occasions from art competitions and events on the basis of me not having an art degree (an Engineering degree, it appears is not considered artistic enough). Its a human quality to create definitions and boundaries to allow our brains to categorize concepts. One of the core questions I'm raising with this work is "What is art?" Well spotted :-)

Have you ever taken a moment to look at the credits on a film? So did Stanley Kubrick make 2001:A space Odyssey? Actually you are touching on a very important point though, the film industry shows a huge amount of respect to all the amazing talents involved in the creation process. The art world is not nearly as respectful and you generally find every major artist taking 100% of the credit for the creation of their works which inevitably involve teams. I specifically decided to break the mold in my nano series by treating the works more like a Director treats the team on his film. Am I really taking all the credit? I think not - take a look again a the extensive credits posted here: http://www.jontyhurwitz.com/na...

Does size matter in art? To take this question down to its most basic form: If you take away the properties of size and color in the context of sculpture ... you're left with nothing ;-) The size of an object obviously has a fundamental influence on how it interacts with the physical world around it, and it is that interaction that defines the nature of its existence. An elephant and flea have a very different relationship with the Universe. In the context of my series of nano sculptures, it is *partly* their scale which turned them into such a viral phenomenon. Their size went beyond the physical (as did the works of IBM) to encourage viewers around the world to ask a wide spectrum of questions ranging from "how has humanity come so far?" to "does size matter in art?". Would they have been as impactful at any other scale? So to answer your broad question...Yes, size is a crucial part of the message in any work of visual art. As an analogy, you may ask "is harmony important in music?" On a side matter: I very much appreciate your clear way of asking "does size matter in art?". Were you making a clear distinction from the question "Does size matter in sex"? I'm interested in why you didn't simply ask "Does size matter?" Your second question: "Does your art bring anything to the table"? I think this is a matter for each table owner to decide, it entirely depends on whose table you are referring to. On the table of my life, it brings a huge amount.

Hey. Great question for me the relationship between art and craft can be defined like this: All craft is art, but not all art is craft. I remember being taught this concept by my English teacher in high school. It goes like this: "all dogs are quadrupeds but it does not follow that all quadrupeds are dogs." The concept must have a name in the world of logic. Can anyone help with this? Here's another way of looking at the same question: The art is a subjective opinion in the eye of the beholder. The craft is to some extent an absolute based on time, effort and/or skill. What distinguishes these nano sculptures as art in *my* belief system? Here are a few interesting topics I think this work raises. The fact that these questions are raised make it art: Does this work raise the "Emperor's new clothes" question? How can something you can't see be art? How much would an art piece like this be worth? How can it be proven that they exist? Why have so many millions of viewers been willing to Trust in science to such an extent? Does this work highlight our almost religious belief in the miracles of science? Why are the sculptures based on the ancient myth of Cupid and Psyche? Why have so many artists over the course of art history chosen this very topic? When creativity is applied to the process of manifestation, is the result always art? What is the difference between good art and good science?