The International Festival of NanoArt organized by NanoArt 21 and The Academy of NanoArt will be hosted by Shizuoka University, Hamamatsu Campus, Japan on November 16 – 23, 2025. The festival is running in parallel with the 17th International Conference for Physics of Advanced Materials (ICPAM-17) organized by Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, Romania in collaboration with other academic institutions.

Artists and scientists are invited to participate with maximum 5 works per artist/scientist. Previous editions of the festival were held in Finland, Germany, Romania, Greece, Spain, Croatia, Egypt, and Turkey. Artists are strongly encouraged to collaborate with scientists at local universities. Interested artists could also download the three high resolution monochromatic electron scans provided by Cris Orfescu:  Micro and Nanostructures Mix, Microparticle Embedded in a Nano Web, Nanopores. Participating artists may alter one or all provided images in any artistic way to create original NanoArt work(s). Please send JPEG images at a resolution of 72 dpi with the longest dimension of maximum 800 pixels by e-mail to nanoart21@gmail.com

Submission Deadline: August 31, 2025

Include: Artist’s Name, Country, Website, Email, Artwork Title, Final Image Size and Resolution, Artistic Process, Comments. If your work(s) will be accepted, Cris Orfescu, the curator of the festival will contact you by email with additional information on final artwork size, resolution, and pricing for printing and hanging (last editions the cost was about $30/print, size A2). The prints may be donated to Shizuoka University for temporary or permanent exhibitions like the one featured bellow:

THE 1st PERMANENT EXHIBITION OF NANOART IN THE WORLD
 
The exhibition, initially designed to be a travel show to spread around Europe this new art discipline has now a permanent location at Alexandru Ioan Cuza University in Iasi, Romania:
 
NanoArt permanent exhibition