Dr. JoAnn Kuchera-Morin honored at MCA Santa Barbara Art Awards
Dr. JoAnn Kuchera-Morin at the Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara Honors Talented Artists in a Night of Celebration and Community.
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2025
Dr. JoAnn Kuchera-Morin & The AlloSphere @ Brave New Work
KEYT Special Reports: AI and Art: Santa Barbara at the Crossroads of Imagination and Innovation
UC Irvine Beall Center for Art + Technology, with Getty PST Art: Art and Science Collide
Sketches of Sensorium in 2025
- Sketches of Sensorium dates for January, February, March, and April 2025 will be added.
- A closing event is in the process of being organized — TBA.
2024
Thank you!
The AlloSphere team thanks everyone who visited us to experience Sketches of Sensorium in 2024. The demand to experience the exhibition exceeded all expectations.
- Rescheduling the Sketches of Sensorium closing event for 2025.
- Additional exhibition times and dates for January–April 2025 will be added in early 2025.
Dr. JoAnn Kuchera-Morin and guests on the bridge of the AlloSphere for Sketches of Sensorium.
AlloSphere Research Group at TED 2024 — “The Brave and the Brilliant,” Vancouver, Canada
Dr. JoAnn Kuchera-Morin, Dr. Kon Hyong Kim, Dr. Thea Wood, and Dr. Gustavo Rincon at TED 2024.
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AlloSphere Announcements Archives — 2018 to present, including Out There!
2023
Dr. JoAnn Kuchera-Morin & Carey Lovelace
AlloSphere Featured @ Visions 2030 EcoFestival, California Institute of the Arts
MAT Program Students at SIGGRAPH 50th, Los Angeles, CA
Sponsored by Autodesk, the Synaptic Time Tunnel was a tribute to 50 years of innovation in computer graphics and interactive techniques at SIGGRAPH. An international audience of more than 14,275 attendees from 78 countries enjoyed the conference.
Contributors: Marcos Novak (Lead Faculty, transLab|MAT/UCSB), JoAnn Kuchera-Morin (Director, AlloSphere/MAT/UCSB), Dr. Kon Hyong Kim, Dr. Gustavo Alfonso Rincon, Weihao Qiu, Graham Wakefield, Haru Ji, Alan Macy, Devon Frost, Alysia James, and team members.
2022
Dr. JoAnn Kuchera-Morin Presenting “Sensorium”
DASER Wonder Workshop October 2022: Exhibition, Community Outreach
A special salon on Exhibition Evaluation for Diverse Communities, honoring the legacy of Newton Harrison. Dr. Kuchera-Morin shared work on the AlloSphere and current contributions to Sensorium — an installation honoring Newton’s vision of the life web and the world ocean.
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08/24/2020
SIGGRAPH 2020 — Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques
Virtual installation of MYRIOI, immersive/interactive visual/sonic composition, SIGGRAPH 2020 Art Gallery, Think Beyond. More info
06/20/2019
ISEA 2019 — International Symposium of Electronic Arts
Installation of Etherial, ISEA 2019, Lux Aeterna, Asia Culture Center, Gwangju, Republic of Korea. More info
10/23/2017
ACM-SIGMM 25th Anniversary Conference
Installation of Probably/Possibly?, ACM-SIGMM 2017, Computer History Museum, Mountain View, California. More info
06/09/2017
ISEA 2017 — International Symposium of Electronic Arts
Installation of Probably/Possibly?, ISEA 2017, Fondatores Museum, Manizales, Colombia.
01/05/2017
Creation and Implementation of an Immersive Media Theater Space
Premiere of Probably/Possibly?, Museum of Exploration and Innovation, six-month installation, Santa Barbara, California. More info
08/04/2016
McPherson Eye Research Institute hosts Dr. JoAnn Kuchera-Morin
Annual McPherson ERI Lecture: “Harnessing Sight and Sound to Explore Complex Information” at the McPherson Eye Research Institute.
06/20/2016
The AlloSphere partners with MOXI
Outreach partnership with MOXI (The Wolf Museum of Exploration and Innovation) to design an Immersive Media Theater. More info
05/29/2016
MAT End of Year Show and AlloSphere Open House
The Media Arts & Technology program annual End of Year Show featured AlloSphere Research Group works; AlloSphere tours were offered.
02/18/2016
CREATE and MAT present The First AlloSphere Concert
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.
05/30/2015
AlloSphere, DP High School, and the Mosher Foundation partner for STEAM education
Hands-on mentorship re-envisioning education in science and engineering. More info
03/17/2015
Kuchera-Morin Keynote at Big Data Symposium
Keynote at the Big Data Symposium, UTSA College of Business.
06/06/2014
MAT End of Year Show and AlloSphere Open House
Annual End of Year Show with AlloSphere tours.
05/22/2014
Dr. Kuchera-Morin speaks at the IX Symposium
Keynote panel on Innovation & Formats, 2014 International Symposium on Immersive Creativity, Montreal.
05/13/2014
Pablo Colapinto speaks at C++ Now
Presentation on Versor, a C++ library for geometric algebra: Generic Programming of Generic Spaces.
05/09/2014
Dr. Matt Wright speaks at the CalArts Digital Arts Expo
Talk on using C++ and the AlloSystem library to teach programming to digital arts practitioners.
05/04/2014
UCSB is now a CUDA Research Center
Under Dr. Kuchera-Morin’s proposal, UCSB joined the NVIDIA CUDA Research Center program.
03/25/2014
Dr. Kuchera-Morin speaks at 2014 NVIDIA GPU Technology Conference
Featured speaker on large-scale immersive visualizations and sonifications for data discovery.
02/21/2014
Two new journal publications for the ARG
Spatial Interaction in a Multi-User Immersive Instrument (Wakefield et al., Computer Graphics & Applications) and Immersive, Full-Surround, Multi-User System Design (Kuchera-Morin et al., Computers & Graphics).
11/04/2013
UCSB press release on the ARG
Hybrid Researchers Are Working at the Intersection of Art and Science, supported by the Robert W. Deutsch Foundation.