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Dr. JoAnn Kuchera-Morin, chief designer of the facility, composer, and media artist with over thirty filve years of experience in media systems engineering, outlines the vision for our research.
Dr. JoAnn Kuchera-Morin, chief designer of the facility, composer, and media artist with over thirty filve years of experience in media systems engineering, outlines the vision for our research.
Director and Chief Scientist of the AlloSphere Research Facility and Professor of Media Arts and Technology and Music (Composition), in the California NanoSystems Institute at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB). Also is the Founding Director of the Center for Research in Electronic Art Technology at UCSB.
Kuchera-Morin's research focuses on composition,creative computational systems, content, and facilities design. Her 35 years of experience in digital media research led to the creation of a multi-million dollar sponsored research program for the University of California—the Digital Media Innovation Program. She was Chief Scientist of the Program from 1998 to 2003. The culmination of her creativity and research is the AlloSphere, a 30-foot diameter, 3-story high metal cylinder inside an echo-free cube, designed for immersive/interactive scientific/artistic investigation of multi-dimensional data sets.
The AlloLib Software System is the underlying media infrastructure that drives the instrument, an integrated collection of C++ libraries for interactive immersive computation, visualization/sonification, as well as a reactive system connected to the python scripting language and the Jupyter notebook. This system functions as a complete workflow design from the HPC cluster or the Cloud, to the Desktop. Licensed by the Regents of the University of California, AlloLib is the open source software core for distributed high performance multimedia computing. More info
Much thanks to the members of the AlloSphere Research Group for the design and development of the AlloLib software.
This research was possible thanks to the support of Robert W. Deutsch Foundation, The Mosher Foundation, the National Science Foundation under Grant numbers 0821858, 0855279, and 1047678, and the U.S. Army Research Laboratory under MURI Grant number W911NF-09-1-0553.
There are numerous philanthropic giving options available to benefit the research and education missions of the AlloSphere. For a major donor there is the opportunity to name the facility and be recognized for your generous support.
The AlloSphere seeks corporate, industry and academic partnerships on short- and long-term collaborative projects. Corporate/industry/university affiliates work alongside UC Santa Barbara faculty and advanced graduate students to conduct basic research, publish results, and showcase their data visually and aurally in the 3D, 360-degree immersive AlloSphere Research Facility.
For more information on giving opportunities, please contact Dr. Kuchera-Morin, the director of the AlloSphere Research Facility. Please contact us at (805) 893-3010 or directly to jkm@create.ucsb.edu.
There are numerous philanthropic giving options available to benefit the research and education missions of the AlloSphere. For a major donor there is the opportunity to name the facility and be recognized for your generous support.
It is also possible to invest in the scientific and artistic efforts of the AlloSphere Research Facility by making a one-time or ongoing tax-deductible donation. Gifts of equipment or software are also welcomed and greatly appreciated.
For more information on giving opportunities, please contact Dr. Kuchera-Morin, the director of the AlloSphere Research Facility. Please contact us at (805) 893-3010 or directly to jkm@create.ucsb.edu.
