JoAnn Kuchera-Morin



Most Recent Affiliation(s):

AlloSphere Research Facility, _Director

Other Affiliation(s):

  • University of California at Santa Barbara

ISEA Bio(s) Available:

ISEA2019

Lead Artist: Composer, Dr. JoAnn Kuchera-Morin, creator of Etherial, is Director and Chief Scientist of the AlloSphere Research Facility and Professor of Media Arts and Technology and Music, in the California NanoSystems Institute at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB). Her research focuses on creative computational systems, content, and facilities design. Her 35 years of experience in digital media research led to the creation of a multi-million dollar sponsored research program for the University of California—the Digital Media Innovation Program. She was Chief Scientist of the Program from 1998 to 2003. The culmination of her creativity and research is the AlloSphere, a 30-foot diameter, 3-story high metal cylinder inside an echo-free cube, designed for immersive/interactive scientific/artistic investigation of multi-dimensional data sets.

ISEA2017

Joann Kuchera-Morin, USA

Last Known Location:

Santa Barbara, California, United States of America

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