Piece description from the artist
As a Materials Scientist by training I've spent a good bit of time in reciprocal space. When I was doing a lot of diffraction and scattering combined with Fourier transform spectroscopies I would sometimes go to sleep with my head still in Reciprocal Space and wake disoriented from my night long adventures in dataland. This piece is partly a reference to those experiences.
By far the funniest and weirdest personal romp through reciprocal space was in a favorite comic from MIT days "The Legend of Fred" by Jim Brendt. One of the main characters became trapped in reciprocal space right about the time I started taking higher level classes using the same concept. The zaniness of the comic reflected the way many of us felt about classes like 3.13.
Ask me about my recurring electron microscopy in my kitchen dream.
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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