Daniel Bozhkov - 2021

The Institute for Higher Listening. Location 5 – Austin. Advanced Nanotechnology for Beginners” by artist Daniel Bozhkov appeared in the 2017 Omnibus Filing exhibition at the Visual Arts Center at UT Austin.

In the Arts+Sciences collaborative depicted to the left, Daniel Bozhkov, with the help of fellow artists Marie Lorenz and Jeff Williams, built a loft and lived in the ‘unused’ top six feet of space in Dr. Brian Korgel’s office on the sixth floor of the Norman Hackerman Building, the location for Korgel Group Nanomaterials Lab, at UT.  For the duration of the project, the artist and the scientist conducted a number of 30-minute sessions at which the scientist explained one advanced nanotechnology concept per session.  The artist listened carefully, tried to understand to the best of his abilities, then rested, and responded at the level of his understanding, by interacting with different objects and spaces inside the building.  The project includes household items used during Daniel Bozhkov’s inhabitation, as well as drawings and a video of these interactions.