Singularity Black is a formula built around carbon nanotubes, chemical structures 1/1,000 the width of a human hair. Meanwhile, Chase is teaching other artists how to use the paint to help inspire more work that deceives-and intrigues. The dress and some of Chase’s artworks using Singularity Black will be featured at the Museum of Fine Arts (MFA) tonight, October 10, as part of the free event Art and Innovation: In the Spirit of HUBweek. While still learning how to use it, Chase has created a light-defying little black dress-the paint renders wrinkles virtually invisible-and a sort of optical-illusion photo booth where a hanging disc painted with Singularity Black makes the poser appear headless. For one of the first nonscientists to be given access to the pigment, it was “one of the most interesting and revolutionary things I’d ever looked at,” says Jason Chase (CFA’03), artist-in-residence at NanoLab, the Waltham, Mass., firm where materials scientists created Singularity Black. Star-gazing scientists aren’t the only ones geeking out over the potential applications of this sci-fi wonder. A typical matte black paint absorbs only about 80 percent. Even the paint’s name has a cool, slightly ominous vibe: Singularity Black.ĭeveloped for NASA to reduce incidental glare on telescopes and other equipment used to study faint, distant stars, Singularity Black sucks up 98.5 percent of the light that enters it. The object becomes a chromatic black hole. The paint defies reflection, rendering invisible the surface detail of an object coated in it. A dress coated in the carbon nanotube paint hits the Museum of Fine Arts tonight.Jason Chase (CFA’03) is artist-in-residence at maker NanoLab.
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