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Digital Art – no Original for sale. In just a few generations we've significantly advanced our understanding of where planets come from. We've gone from explanations that tried to describe why our sun uniquely possessed orbiting bodies to the discovery of crazy exotic exoplanets orbiting a variety of alien "suns", to speculation about planets orbiting exotic bodies like black holes. One aspect of this process of growing understanding has always fascinated me. We start our theories and explanations from a point that encapsulates a number of our assumptions about our world. Many of the starting points for planet formation carried the initial "default" tacit assumption that the sun was uniquely possessed of planets. Why was this the default? Seeking the answer to that question often reveals odd and unexpected intersections between Science struggling for rational explanations amid remnants of religious philosophy and mysticism. These odd intersections and "defaults" that we simply accept as starting points are everywhere if one starts to look.
Dr. Regina Valluzzi has an extensive scientific background in nanotechnology and biophysics. She has been a scientist in the chemical industry, a green chemistry researcher, a research professor at the engineering school at Tufts, a start-up founder engaged in technology commercialization, and a start-up and commercialization consultant.
Even during periods of intense activity as a scientist, Dr. Valluzzi has always held a strong interest in the visual arts and in visual information. While she majored in Materials Science at MIT, she also obtained a second degree in music and a minor in visual studies. Visual arts have managed to permeate her technical work; during her Ph.D in Polymer Science and Engineering at UMass Amherst, she completed a thesis that required advanced electron microscopy, image analysis, and theoretical data modeling. These experiences provided the visual insight and information that now influences much of her artwork.
Dr. Valluzzi’s work has been included in private collections across the US, UK, Germany, Canada, Japan, Netherlands, Switzerland, Bulgaria, Dubai and Malta, and in the corporate collection of "Seyfarth Shaw" Boston law offices around Boston. She has a selection of pieces on loan to the MIT Materials Science and Engineering Department as indoor public art. Her accomplishments include having published thirty articles in peer-reviewed scientific journals, having made several scientific patents, having been a subject matter expert for an encyclopedia chapter, and having been invited to speak at science talks across the US, Europe, and Japan.
Her newsletter is a good source of ongoing information: http://eepurl.com/daiLQ
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