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The AlloSphere Team wants to thank everyone that visited us to experience Sketches of Sensorium in 2024. The demand to experience the exhibition has exceeded all expectations.
Additional exhibition times & dates for 2025 - January, February, March, & April will be added in early 2025
Dr. JoAnn Kuchera-Morin & guests on the Bridge of the AlloSphere for "Sketches of Sensorium"
Dr. JoAnn Kuchera-Morin, Dr. Kon Hyong Kim, Dr. Tim Wood, & Dr. Gustavo Rincon @ TED 2024 - Installation
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Sponsored by Autodesk , the Synaptic Time Tunnel was a tribute to 50 years of innovation and achievement in the field of computer graphics and interactive techniques that have been presented at the SIGGRAPH conferences.
An international audience of more than 14,275 attendees from 78 countries enjoyed the conference and its Mobile and Virtual Access component.
Contributors:
Marcos Novak (Lead Faculty)- Director @ transLab|MAT/UCSB: Team(Nefeli Manoudaki, Iason Paterakis, Diarmid Flatley, Ryan Millet, Pau Rosello Diaz), JoAnn Kuchera-Morin - Director @ AlloSphere, MAT/UCSB: Team( Dr. Kon Hyon Kim, Dr. Gustavo Alfonso Rincon), Weihao Qiu - Experimental Visualization Lab, MAT/UCSB, Graham Wakefield - York University, UCSB, Haru Ji - OCAD University, UCSB, Alan Macy - BIOPAC Systems Inc., Devon Frost - MAT/UCSB, Alysia James - Department of Theater and Dance/UCSB
This was a special salon on Exhibition Evaluation for Diverse Communities as many in our community are mourning the recent passing of Newton Harrison. There are two PST projects directly related to the work of the Harrisons and many more that have been influenced by Newton and Helen’s decades of making work blending art and marine biology, agriculture, urban planning and activism and that tackled, early on, the effects of climate change. Our provocateur was JoAnn Kuchera-Morin, Director, Allosphere Research Laboratory. Dr. Kuchera-Morin will share work about the Allosphere as well as the current contributions to the project Sensorium - an installation that will be in honor of Newton’s work and vision of the life web and the world ocean.
08/24/2020
Virtual Installation/Presentation of MYRIOI Immersive/interactive visual/sonic composition and installationn, SIGGRAPH 2020, Art Gallery, Think Beyond, August 24-28, 2020 More info
06/20/2019
Installation of Etherial Immersive/interactive visual/sonic composition and installation, International Symposium of Electronic Arts (ISEA 2019), Lux Aeterna, Asia Culture Center,, June 20 – July 31, 2019, Gwangju, Republic of Korea More info
10/23/2017
Installation of Probably/Possibly? Immersive/interactive visual/sonic composition and installation, ACM-SIGMM 2017, Computer History Museum, October 23-27 2017, Mountainview, California More info
06/09/2017
Installation of Probably/Possibly? Immersive/interactive visual/sonic composition and installation, International Symposium of Electronic Arts (ISEA 2017), Fondatores Museum, June 9-17, 2017, Manizales, Colombia.
01/05/2017
Premiere of Probably/Possibly? Immersive/interactive visual/sonic composition and installation, Museum of Exploration and Innovation, six-month installation, January-June 2017, Santa Barbara, California. More info
8/4/2016
Dr. JoAnn Kuchera-Morin presented the annual McPherson ERI Lecture speaking on "Harnessing Sight and Sound to Explore Complex Information" at the McPherson Eye Research Institute.
6/20/2016
The AlloSphere as part of its outreach initiatives, is partnering with MOXI (The Wolf Museum of Exploration and Innovation). This partnership will involve the design and setup of an Immersive Media Theater showcasing JoAnn Kuchera-Morin's, Lance Puntnam's and Luca Peliti's interactive exploration of the electron wave functions in a hydrogen-like atom. More info
5/29/2016
On May 29th the Media Arts & Technology program will host its annual End of Year Show. The show will prominently feature works from members of the AlloSphere Research Group and tours of the AlloSphere will also be given on a first-come, first-serve basis.
3/16/2016
Dr. JoAnn Kuchera-Morin presents the Keynote address at the IMERSA (Immersive Media Research, Science and Arts) Summit 2016.
2/18/2016
Featuring a multichannel remix of John Chowning's "Turenas", and works by the UCSB CREATE Ensemble, Akshay Cadambi, David Gordon, Federico Llach and Fernando Rincon Estrada.
5/30/2015
This new partnership between the academy, MAT and UCSB’s AlloSphere Research Facility is providing the high schoolers with hands-on mentorship and re-envisioning education in science and engineering. More info
3/17/2015
Dr. JoAnn Kuchera-Morin presents the Keynote address at the Big Data Symposium hosted by the UTSA College of Business.
6/6/2014
On June 6th the Media Arts & Technology program will host its annual End of Year Show. The show will prominently feature works from members of the AlloSphere Research Group and tours of the AlloSphere will also be given on a first-come, first-serve basis.
5/22/2014
Dr. Kuchera-Morin was part of a keynote panel discussion on the theme of Innovation & Formats, as part of the 2014 International Symposium on Immersive Creativity, held in Montreal, Canada.
5/13/2014
ARG Researcher and Deutsch Fellow Pablo Colapinto presented his research on Versor, a C++ library for geometric algebra, in a talk titled Generic Programming of Generic Spaces: Compile-Time Geometric Algebra with C++11.
5/9/2014
ARG Research Director and MAT Lecturer Dr. Matt Wright spoke at the 2014 CalArts Digital Arts Expo and Symposium for Computer Science in Arts Education. His talked focused on using C++ and the AlloSystem library to teach programming to beginning digital arts practitioners.
5/4/2014
Under a proposal by Dr.JoAnn Kuchera-Morin, UCSB was accepted as a CUDA research center. Becoming a NVIDIA CUDA Research Center provides a variety of benefits to the campus, and ensures early access for AlloSphere researchers to cutting-edge NVIDIA hardware and software for parallel computing.
3/25/2014
Dr. Kuchera-Morin was a featured speaker on the potential for large scale, immersive visualizations and sonifications to drive data discovery.
2/21/2014
The first, spearheaded by former ARG researcher Dr. Graham Wakefield, is titled Spatial Interaction in a Multi-User Immersive Instrument and appeared in the November / December issue of Computer Graphics & Applications. The second, with first author Dr. JoAnn Kuchera-Morin, is titled Immersive, Full-Surround, Multi-User System Design, and appears in the May issue of Computers & Graphics.
Kuchera-Morin, J., Wright, M., Wakefield, G., Roberts, C., Höllerer, T., Adderton, D. Immersive, Full-Surround, Multi-User System Design. Computers & Graphics. Volume 40, May 2014.
Wakefield, G., Höllerer, T., Kuchera-Morin, J., Roberts, C., Wright, M. Spatial Interaction in a Multi-User Immersive Instrument. Computer Graphics & Applications. Nov.-Dec. 2103, pages 14-20.
11/4/2013
A news release by UCSB's Office of Public Affairs and Communications titled "Hybrid Researchers Are Working at the Intersection of Art and Science", describes the hybrid research being done in the AlloSphere made possible by a grant by the Robert W. Deutsch Foundation.