There’s plenty of room at the bottom | Giorgio Di Noto | @VSM
"There's plenty of room at the bottom" is the title of a 1959 speech by physicist Richard Feynman, considered the first scientific reference to the potential of nanotechnology: "What would happen if we could arrange the atoms one by one the way we want?"
Nanotechnology has a special relationship with photography: the daguerreotype, the first photographic process in history, has been identified by recent studies as one of the first (unconscious) examples of nanotechnology. The optical qualities and extremely high definition of daguerreotypes are, in fact, correlated to the size of the silver, mercury, and gold nanoparticles observed on the surface of photographic plates. Furthermore, nanosciences, dealing with the infinitely small, also have a special relationship with visibility and invisibility, with light and matter, just as the photographic process does.
Starting from this inspiration, Giorgio Di Noto conducts his investigation by trying, on one hand, to engage with a fundamental technology and science of recent decades, and on the other, to create a visual and conceptual connection with photography, starting right from the physics and chemistry that made it possible. His research thus focuses on the possible connections between a science that studies an invisible world and a technology that represents, at least apparently, the visible world.
The result of this continuously evolving journey is on display within the offices of Volvo Studio Milano with a series of visual notes on the relationship between photography and nanotechnology, the visible and the invisible. These are artistic investigations into light, materials and photographic processes, surfaces, transparency, transmission, and reflection. The result is a surprising and fascinating body of border-crossings that involve the very nature of the image (photographic and otherwise), along with its tangible and intangible, material and conceptual properties.
Giorgio Di Noto’s “There’s plenty of room at the bottom”
Opening: Thursday 23th October at 7 PM.
On this occasion, a talk with the art critic and curator Mauro Zanchi
Opening hours: Every Saturday, from 10:00 AM to 7:00 PM, until January 17th, 2026
More info: info@viasaterna.com
@ Volvo Studio Milano
(Viale della liberazione corner Via Melchiorre Gioia)
REGISTER TO THE EVENT
Nanotechnology has a special relationship with photography: the daguerreotype, the first photographic process in history, has been identified by recent studies as one of the first (unconscious) examples of nanotechnology. The optical qualities and extremely high definition of daguerreotypes are, in fact, correlated to the size of the silver, mercury, and gold nanoparticles observed on the surface of photographic plates. Furthermore, nanosciences, dealing with the infinitely small, also have a special relationship with visibility and invisibility, with light and matter, just as the photographic process does.
Starting from this inspiration, Giorgio Di Noto conducts his investigation by trying, on one hand, to engage with a fundamental technology and science of recent decades, and on the other, to create a visual and conceptual connection with photography, starting right from the physics and chemistry that made it possible. His research thus focuses on the possible connections between a science that studies an invisible world and a technology that represents, at least apparently, the visible world.
The result of this continuously evolving journey is on display within the offices of Volvo Studio Milano with a series of visual notes on the relationship between photography and nanotechnology, the visible and the invisible. These are artistic investigations into light, materials and photographic processes, surfaces, transparency, transmission, and reflection. The result is a surprising and fascinating body of border-crossings that involve the very nature of the image (photographic and otherwise), along with its tangible and intangible, material and conceptual properties.
Giorgio Di Noto’s “There’s plenty of room at the bottom”
Opening: Thursday 23th October at 7 PM.
On this occasion, a talk with the art critic and curator Mauro Zanchi
Opening hours: Every Saturday, from 10:00 AM to 7:00 PM, until January 17th, 2026
More info: info@viasaterna.com
@ Volvo Studio Milano
(Viale della liberazione corner Via Melchiorre Gioia)
REGISTER TO THE EVENT