Piece description from the artist
Gravitational Melodies is a digital collage and reimagining of a hand made marker and foil drawing I made called Singularity Fugue. A grainy conventional upscaled scan was superimposed on an SI generated upscale.
AI scaleup of my images converts my novel approaches to media into the appearance of more typical media and techniques, which is interesting in and of itself.
The grainy scale up and AI version were melded together using masks and transparency tools to get a new composite with texture contrast. Digitally hand-drawn details were added to create more contrast and play on blurred versus crisp lines and shapes.
A set of small AI generated image files based on prompts describing the original Singularity Fugue drawing were integrated into the piece.
The result is clearly a variation on the original handmade drawing, but is also different and new. The main challenge here was integrating Surreal styled AI collage elements with the graphic style of the original drawing. Another challenge was making use of the graininess of the upscaled original scan.
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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