In these stressful times, it is often difficult to understand one another’s varying perspectives, languages, and cultures. Is there a way to communicate with compassion, kindness, and sharing? What if there we can create a non-dialectic language that allows us to see, hear, and interact with information to see beauty in a way in which everyone can understand our purpose for working as one community of consciousness. Joy in all of us seems to come from seeing the beauty in nature, art, and music. The expression of creation is a part of us and could be a unifying factor in who and what we are, leading to empathy, compassion, and caring for the world that we live in.
In this talk, Dr. JoAnn Kuchera-Morin will take you on a journey of a composer and media artist who has spent the past 40 years searching for truth in her artistic process that has led to finding the same truths in science, society, and technology, to build an interdisciplinary field that brings together artists, scientists, and engineers searching for the same truth of our purpose in life. This has led to the development of a visual/sonic and interactive language and an immersive instrument, the AlloSphere, that allows anyone to experience and understand the most complex and incomprehensible data that makes up the fabric of this world: the quantum, the galactic, and the planet that we live on.
Dr. JoAnn Kuchera-Morin Composer, Director and Chief Scientist of the AlloSphere Research Facility is Distinguished Professor of Media Arts and Technology and Music at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her research focuses on creative computational systems, multi-modal media content, and facilities design. She created a Digital Media Center in the California NanoSystems Institute and the AlloSphere instrument, a 30-foot diameter, three-story high metal sphere/capsule inside an echo-free cube, designed for immersive, interactive scientific and artistic investigation of multi-dimensional data sets. Professor Kuchera-Morin earned a Ph.D. in composition from the Eastman School of Music, University of Rochester in 1984.
Have questions? Contact CIF Co-Director Jack Eisenhauer at jleisenhauer@gmail.com or John Warnock at johnwwarnock@gmail.com.
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