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AlloSphere Featured @ Visions 2030 EcoFestival, California Institute of the Arts

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Collaborative Research Practice

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2023

MAT Program Students Including members of the AlloSphere Research Group

at SIGGRAPH 50th @ Los Angeles, CA -- 2023

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

2022

Dr. JoAnn Kuchera-Morin Presenting "Sensorium"

DASER Wonder Workshop October 2022: Exhibition, Community Outreach

News - Selected

08/24/2020

SIGGRAPH 2020 - Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics and Interactive techniques

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

ISEA 2019 – International Symposium of Electronic Arts

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

ACM-SIGMM 25 Anniversary Conference

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

ISEA 2017 – International Symposium of Electronic Arts

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

Creation and Implementation of an Immersive Media Theater Space

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

The McPherson Eye Research Institute hosts a presentation by Dr. JoAnn Kuchera-Morin

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 partners with MOXI

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

MAT End of Year Show and AlloSphere Open House

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

Kuchera-Morin Keynote at IMERSA Summit

Dr. JoAnn Kuchera-Morin presents the Keynote address at the IMERSA (Immersive Media Research, Science and Arts) Summit 2016.

2/18/2016

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.

5/30/2015

The AlloSphere, DP High School and the Mosher Foundation partner for STEAM education

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

Kuchera-Morin Keynote at Big Data Symposium

Dr. JoAnn Kuchera-Morin presents the Keynote address at the Big Data Symposium hosted by the UTSA College of Business.

6/6/2014

MAT End of Year Show and AlloSphere Open House

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 speaks at the IX Symposium

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

Pablo Colapinto speaks at C++ Now

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

Dr. Matt Wright speaks at the CalArts Digital Arts Expo

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

UCSB is now a CUDA Research Center

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 speaks at 2014 NVIDIA GPU Technology Conference

Dr. Kuchera-Morin was a featured speaker on the potential for large scale, immersive visualizations and sonifications to drive data discovery.



2/21/2014

Two new journal publications for the ARG

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

UCSB press release on the ARG

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.

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