Dr. JoAnn Kuchera-Morin, chief designer of the AlloSphere facility, composer, and media artist with over thirty-five (35) years of experience in media systems engineering, outlines the vision for our research.
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.
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.
We ask for your support in achieving our ambitious goal of empowering both our
Santa Barbara community as well as our global community to access the latest technologies developed and inspired by the AlloSphere. We want to thank everyone that visited us this year by continuing our innovative programming reaching all those interested in engaging an exciting future for 2026!
The AlloSphere: An Introduction with Questions
Your Support
A Gift
Please consider donating to the AlloSphere for the goal to democratize research and enable its open access to all. We empower both our Santa Barbara Arts and Science communities as well as our global research networks to access the latest technologies developed and inspired by the AlloSphere.
Our efforts last year yielded record-breaking attendance at the AlloSphere with our research presentation “Sketches of Sensorium” as part of the Getty Foundation’s Pacific Standard Time (PST ART), a satellite location of University of California, Irvine's Beall Center for Art + Technologies “Future Tense: Art, Complexity, and Uncertainty” exhibition.
We are continuing our Santa Barbara community outreach programming with our participation with “Brave New Work: AI and Tech in the Hands of Artists.” Our parallel goal is to connect researchers around the world with the public and to tell the stories and develop new Arts/Science works that accurately represent problems leading to potential collaborative solutions.
Investing Now for the Future
All gifts are welcomed as an investment to inspire action in sharing our open-source software tools and research facilities. Because of community members like you, the AlloSphere Facility will be able to continue leading the way in cutting-edge research that makes a difference. We encourage new collaborative partnerships to realize creative solutions for discovery and innovation.
Your contribution can help maintain the AlloSphere Research Group’s important creative research practice, as well as support Graduate Student Researchers, Postdoctoral Researchers, and much needed equipment within our lab facilities.
Your support will help us continue our important work of building a new community of collaboration to secure a bright new future.
Your commitment will add to our talented AlloSphere research group’s drive for excellence in moving all existing projects forward.
We are here to be of service and to secure a better world. For more information go to our collaboration and support pages. If you have any further questions, please reach out directly to my AlloSphere team or me @ jkm@create.ucsb.edu. We look forward to hearing from you.
Making a Gift
There are numerous philanthropic giving options available to benefit the research and education missions of the AlloSphere. Please share this research movement that is decades in the making with colleagues & friends to help grow the AlloSphere as a unique and important instrument within the UC Santa Barbara research landscape. All one-time, multi-year, and ongoing tax-deductible donations are welcomed.
Guiding a collaborative partnership by making a transformation investment.
Gifting of hardware equipment and/or software.
Investing in scientific & artistic research projects.
If sending a check, please contact Dr. Kuchera-Morin, the director of the AlloSphere Research Facility by email to jkm@create.ucsb.edu and/or at (805) 893-3010.
