The AlloSphere Research Facility

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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.

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The AlloSphere Research Facility located in the California NanoSystems Insitute. Please inquire with Dr. JoAnn Kuchera-Morin for more information.

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The latest news on the AlloSphere Team & Dr. JoAnn Kuchera-Morin's Exhibitions, Lectures, & Research.

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Etherial: A Quantum Composition & Installation featured at ISEA, Gwangju, Republic of Korea. Also can be viewed at the California NanoSystems Institute's AlloPortal and AlloSphere.

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A repository of publications in the Media Arts & Sciences. Please contact Dr. Kuchera-Morin for more information.

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Researcher Dr. Basak Alper demonstrates new ways of interacting with graph visualizations in the AlloSphere.

The AlloSphere Research Group Our Team

Our Team is led by Dr. Kuchera-Morin (Director, Inventor, & Lead Researcher) of the Allosphere Research Group. Dr. Andres Cabrera as Media Systems Engineer, Dennis Adderton as Technical Director. And the AlloSphere Team.

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The AlloSphere Research Group is open to collaboration and tours.

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Dr. JoAnn Kuchera-Morin Group is available to discuss future collaborations.

Publications

Papers

Please contact Dr. Kuchera-Morin, if you have any questions.
Kuchera-Morin, J. Structure in Charles Wuorinen’s String Trio, Perspectives of New Music, Festschrift for composer Charles Wuorinen’s 80th Birthday, Commissioned Article, PNM Volume 46, Number 2, October 2019.
Kuchera-Morin, J., Putnam, L., Peliti, L., AlloSphere Design Team - Adderton, D., Cabrera, A., AlloSphere GSRS - Kim, K., Rincon, G., Tilbian, J., Wolfe, H., Wood, T., Youn, K., PROBABLY/POSSIBLY? An Immersive Interactive Visual/Sonic Quantum Composition and Synthesizer., MM ’17, October 23–27, 2017, Mountain View, CA, USA ACM ISBN 978-1-4503-4906 2/17/10.
Cabrera, A., Kuchera-Morin, J., Roads, C. The Evolution of Spatial Audio in the AlloSphere. MIT Press, Computer Music Journal, Volume 40, Number 4, Winter 2016, pp. 47-61.
Ren, D., Goldschwendt, T., Chang, Y.S., Höllerer, T. Evaluating Wide-Field-of-View Augmented Reality with Mixed Reality Simulation. 2016 IEEE Virtual Reality (VR), Greenville, SC, 2016, pp. 93-102.
Roberts, C., Allison, J., Holmes, D., Taylor, B., Wright, M., Kuchera-Morin, J. Educational Design of Live Coding Environments for the Browser. Journal of Music, Education & Technology. 9:1, pp.95–116. 2016.
Haru (Hyunkyung) Ji, Graham Wakefield. "Endogenous Biologically Inspired Art of Complex Systems." Computer Graphics and Applications 36, no. 1 (January, 2016): 16-21. IEEE Computer Society.
Roberts, C., Wright, M., Kuchera-Morin, J. Music Programming With Gibber. Proceedings of the International Computer Music Conference. 2015.
Roberts, C., Yerkes, K., Bazo, D., Wright, M., Kuchera-Morin, J. Sharing Time and Code in a Browser-Based Live Coding Environment. Proceedings of the 2015 International Conference on Live Coding, pp. 179–185.
Roberts, C., Wright, M., Kuchera-Morin, J. Beyond Editing: Extended Interaction with Textual Code Fragments. Proceedings of the 2015 New Interfaces for Musical Expression Conference, pages 126–131.
Roberts, C., Wright, M., Kuchera-Morin, J., Höllerer,T. Gibber: Abstractions for Creative Multimedia Programming. Proceedings of the 2014 ACM Multimedia Conference, pages 67–76.
Haru (Hyunkyung) Ji, Graham Wakefield. "Endogenous Biologically-Inspired Visualization Immersed Within an Art of Complex Systems." In Proceedings of the IEEE VIS Arts Program (Chicago, USA), 30-37. University of Illinois at Chicago, October, 2015.
Roberts, Charles, Graham Wakefield, Matthew Wright, and JoAnn Kuchera-Morin. "Designing musical instruments for the browser." Computer Music Journal 39, no. 1 (2015): 27-40.
Kuchera-Morin, JoAnn C. "Multi-modal mapping of complex data using interactive visual and aural cues." The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 137, no. 4 (2015): 2330-2330.
Putnam, Lance J., JoAnn Kuchera-Morin, and Luca Peliti. "Studies in Composing Hydrogen Atom Wavefunctions." Leonardo (2015).
Graham Wakefield, Charles Roberts, Matthew Wright, Timothy Wood, Karl Yerkes. "Collaborative Live-Coding with an Immersive Instrument." In Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression (London, United Kingdom), 505-508. Goldsmiths, University of London, June, 2014.
Kuchera-Morin, J., Wright, M., Wakefield, G., Roberts, C., Adderton, D., Sajadi, B., Höllerer, T., and Majumder, A. Immersive Full-Surround Multi-User System Design. Computers & Graphics, Volume 40, May 2014, Pages 10–21.
Roberts, Charlie, Matthew Wright, JoAnn Kuchera-Morin, and Tobias Höllerer. "Rapid Creation and Publication of Digital Musical Instruments." In NIME, pp. 239-242. 2014.
Colangelo, Carmon, Ben Knapp, JoAnn Kuchera-Morin, and Andrew Schulz. "Plenary Conversation I: The Future of Arts Integrative Interdisciplinarity." (2014).
C. Lee, G.A. Rincon, G. Meyer, T. Höllerer, D.A. Bowman. IEEE Virtual Reality 2013. The Effects of Visual Realism on Search Tasks in Mixed Reality Simulation.
Liu, Qian, Yoon Chung Han, JoAnn Kuchera-Morin, Matthew Wright, and George Legrady. "Cloud Bridge: a Data-driven Immersive Audio-Visual Software Interface." In NIME, pp. 431-436. 2013.
Roberts, Charlie, and JoAnn Kuchera-Morin. Gibber: Live coding audio in the browser. Ann Arbor, MI: Michigan Publishing, University of Michigan Library, 2012.
Roberts, C., Alper, B., Kuchera-Morin, J., and Höllerer, T. Augmented Textual Data Viewing in 3D Visualizations Using Tablets. Proceedings of the 2012 Symposium on 3D User Interfaces (3DUI 2012), IEEE Virtual Reality Conference.
Roberts, C., Kuchera-Morin, J. Gibber: Live Coding Audio In The Browser. In Proceedings of the International Computer Music Conference (ICMC). Ljubljana, Slovenia. 2012.
Fan, Yuan-Yi, F. Myles Sciotto, and JoAnn Kuchera-Morin. "Time Giver: An Experiment of Collective Expression using Mobile PPG and EEG in AlloSphere." Proceedings of the IEEE VIS Arts Program (VISAP) (2013).
Kuchera-Morin, J., Performing in Quantum Space: A Creative Approach to N-Dimensional Computing, Article Publication, Leonardo, Journal of the International Society for the Arts, Sciences and Technology, 2011.
McGee, R., van der Veen, J., Wright, M., Kuchera-Morin, J., Alper, B. Lubin, P., Sonifying The Cosmic Microwave Background, Article Publication, 17th International Conference on Auditory Display (ICAD-2011), Budapest, Hungary.
Alper, B., Höllerer, T., Kuchera-Morin, J., Forbes, A., Stereoscopic Highlighting: 2D Graph Visualization on Stereographic Displays, 2011, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, Volume 17 Issue 12, December 2011.
McGee, Ryan and Matthew Wright. 2011. Sound Element Spatializer. In Proceedings of the International Computer Music Conference. Huddersfield, England.
Putnam, L., Wakefield, G., Ji, H., Alper, B., Adderton, D., Professor Kuchera-Morin, J. 2010, Immersed in Unfolding Complex Systems, BEAUTIFUL VISUALIZATION, Copyright © 2010 O’Reilly Media, Inc. All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America.
Kuchera-Morin, J. Using the Creative Process to Map N-Dimensions: Quantum Information at your Fingertips, KEYNOTE – 2009 ACM-CCC (ACM Creativity and Cognition Conference), Berkeley, CA.
Amatriain, X., Kuchera-Morin, J., Höllerer, T., Pope, S. 2009 The AlloSphere: An Immersive Multimedia Instrument for Scientific Data Discovery and Artistic Exploration, 2009 IEEE Multimedia 16:2, pp. 64-75.
Wakefield, G., Kuchera-Morin, J., Novak, M., Overholt, D., Putnam, L., Thompson, J., Smith, W. 2009 The AlloBrain: an Interactive Stereographic, 3D Audio Immersive Environment. International Journal of Human Computer Interaction. Science Direct (2009),doi:10.1016/j.ijhcs.2009.05.005.
Amatriain, X., Castellanos J., Höllerer,T., Kuchera-Morin, J., Pope, S., Wakefield, G., and Wolcott, W. 2007 Experiencing Audio and Music in a Fully Immersive Environment. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer-Verlag.
Overholt, D., Thompson, J. Putnam, L., Bell, B., Kleban, J. Sturm, B., Kuchera-Morin, J. 2009 A Multimodal System For Gesture Recognition in Interactive Music Performance, Computer Music Journal, September 4, 2009 19:15.
Interactive Composition, timeandagain, for live flutist and multi-modal music stand, a multi-modal interface that receives
audio/visual/e-field-sensing data in real-time from the live performer, 2007.
Turk, M., Höllerer, T., Arisona, S. M., Kuchera-Morin, J., Putnam, L., Coffin, C., Hoetzlein, R., Overholt, D. 2007 Creative Collaborative Exploration in Multiple Environments Copyright © 2007, Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (www.aaai.org).
DiVerdi, S., I. Rakkolainen, T. Höllerer, A. Olwal., January 15.18, 2006, A Novel Walk-through 3D Display. SPIE Electronic Imaging, Stereoscopic Displays and Applications XVII, San Jose, CA, USA, Vol. 6055, 605519, pp. 1.10.
DiVerdi, S., and T. Höllerer, 2007 GroundCam: A Tracking Modality for Mobile Mixed Reality. In: Proc. IEEE VR 2007 (9th Int.l Conference on Virtual Reality), Charlotte, NC.
Gibson, J., Kuchera-Morin, J., and Norman, A. Experiential Signal Processing (ESP) and Experiential Telecommunications (ET). 2007 Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers. IEEE.
Höllerer, T., Kuchera-Morin, J., and Amatriain, X., 2007 The Allosphere: a large-scale immersive surround-view instrument. In EDT .07: Proceedings of the 2007 workshop on Emerging Displays Technologies, page 3, New York, NY, USA, 2007. ACM Press.
Amatrian, X., Höllerer, T., Kuchera-Morin, J., Pope S., 2007, Immersive Audio and Music in the AlloSphere, ICMC 2007 (International Computer Music Conference), Copenhagen Denmark, 27 August 2007.

Press

Please Inquire with Dr. Kuchera-Morin for a full updated list including from 2013 - 2020.
The Intersection of Arts, Science and Engineering - An article in International Innovation North America, May 2013.
The AlloSphere Offers an Interactive Experience of Nano-sized Worlds - An article featured on the National Science Foundation's website.
Big Data's People-Changing Machine - An article by Quentin Hardy, Forbes magazine, July, 2011.
Marriage of Science and Art - An article by Lauren Griffin, CoastLines magazine, summer issue, 2011.
Living Data - An article by Tom Simonite, MIT Technology Review, September/October issue, 2010.
Sensory Overloader: 3-D Tower Lets Researchers Climb Inside Their Data - An article by Vince Beiser, Wired magazine, May 24, 2010.
A 360-Degree Virtual Reality Chamber Brings Researchers Face to Face with Their Data - An article by Julian Smith that appeared in the online edition of Scientific American, September 15, 2009.
Enter the AlloSphere - A front-page article by D.J. Palladino that appeared in the Santa Barbara Independent weekly newspaper (Vol. 22, No. 147) November 6-13, 2008.
Spherical Lab Unveiled at UCSB Turns Science Into Sights, Sounds - An article by Allison Bruce that appeared in the Ventura County Star daily newspaper on March 6, 2008.