Current research interests include: algorithmic counterpoint, robotic drawing, biofeedback visualization and aurilization, ambient music, ecological simulation, neural networks, recursive sentence generation, pink noise and complexity.

Basak Alper is a designer/engineer working on computer graphics and visualization for the past five years. She holds two MS degrees in multimedia engineering and computer graphics and a BA degree in interaction design.She is part of the Allosphere team since January 2008. Her recent research efforts are in human centered aspects of multimodal visualizations in virtual reality environments. She was awarded with many scholarships including Fulbright. 

Ivana is interested in acoustics, electronic instruments, perception and neuronal responses to sound, vibration and music. Primarily engineer and scientist, with great passion for music because of its power to communicate and improve physiological and psychological states, she strives to understand the underlying mechanisms of such phenomena. Her goal is to use the scientific knowledge of neuronal responses to sound in harmonizing acoustic environment.

BS, MS in Computer Science

Researching all permutations of robots and cinema.

Research Interests: Interactivity; Multimedia Theater Design; Gesture Analysis and Multimodal Sensing; Text-based Composition.

Artistic Interests: Public (Trans-spatial/"Guerilla") Performance; Narrative and Ritual; Found Sounds and Objects; Human Interaction in Absurd/Altered Environments.

Recent Work:

• Sound Design, Pericles by William Shakespeare, Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival (New York), 2009.
• Computer Vision architect, MODE Studios' large-scale interactive artwork, Microsoft E&D Buildings, Redmond WA, 2009.
• Interactive Programming consultant, Marie Sester's BE[AM] (gallery installation), 2008.
• Lucius McKeon Bell, Male Human Child, Sept 2008.
• Interactive audio/visual installations, NIGHTS series, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, 2006-2008.

• Sound Design, Richard III by William Shakespeare, Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival (New York), 2007
• Computer Vision Consultant, Marie Sester's "Threatbox.us" at Centro de Arte y Creacion Industrial, Gijon, Spain, March-June 2007.

Burbano, originally from Colombia, explores the interactions of science, art and technology in various capacities: as a researcher, as an individual artist and in collaborations with other artists and designers. Burbano's work ranges from documentary video (in both science and art), sound and telecommunication art to the exploration of algorithmic cinematic narratives. The broad spectrum of his work illustrates the importance, indeed, the prevalence, of interdisciplinary collaborative work in the field of digital art.

Andres Burbano is currently a PhD candidate of Media Arts and Technology at the University of California Santa Barbara.

Research in conformal geometric algebra and hyperbolic transformations.

John Delaney is a UC Berkeley graduate and former Civil Engineering Designer who has always had a passion for art and music.  He is studying computer graphics design, with an emphasis on manifold modeling, fluid dynamics, and real-time raytracing.

Solen is an architect, researcher and media artist. Her work primarily concerns with the intersections of new media processes and spatial practices. She holds a BSc in Architecture from Istanbul Technical University and an MArch from University of Southern California.

Research Interests

Spatial Computing, Algorithmic Architectures, Real-Time Graphics, Generative Processes, Data Visualization, New media tools for DJing/VJing, BioInspired Processes & Technologies, Emergence, Complex Systems, Symmetries, Self Organization

I am a researcher, designer and media artist with a diverse background ranging from fashion and automotive design to architecture and live visuals. I hold a Bachelor of Science in Design from University of Cincinnati, Department of Design, Architecture, Art and Planning, and MFA from Design Media Arts, UCLA.

Drawing upon cultural anthropology, my research is focused on the evolution of the symbiotic relationship of technology and the human with the aim of creating crossover points into dimensions and ecologies referred to as ‘utopia’, whether technological, architectural or social. My interest lies in questions that debunk prescriptions within either of these categories, and to instead offer neolexia for our future hybrid bodies.

My latest work looks at the merger of architecture with the human body.

Yoon Chung Han was born in Seoul, South Korea in 1983 and lives and works in Los Angeles and Santa Barbara. She received BFA and MFA from Seoul National University with specialty in graphic design and interactive media design and achieved her second MFA in Design | Media Arts department in UCLA in 2010. Her major interest is an interactive art, especially focusing on sound. She made new kinds of musical instruments, experimental sound interface and interactive sound installations. Her works were introduced in major media art festivals internationally such as Siggraph Art Gallery 2009 in USA, 13th Japan Media Arts Festival in Tokyo, 4th Take Away Festival of DIY Media in London Science Museum, Videotage in Hong Kong, and Collider in University of Akron. Currently, she is pursuing her Ph.D course at MAT program in UCSB.

Michael Hetrick is a musician specializing in real-time electro-acoustic performance.

Guitarist, programmer, and expert pillow fighter.

Research interests include machine learning aided algorithmic composition and visualization.

Bachelors degree in Digital Media Arts and Technology. Current research interests are Human Computer Interaction, 3D animation, and computer graphics.

MS Media Arts and Technology, UCSB

BSEE, UT Dallas

Interests: Musique concrete, Sonification, Visual Music, Spatial Audio, Biofeedback as a means to music compostion.

Casey Mongoven is a composer who works exclusively with Fibonacci-related mathematics. He is currently working on his dissertation The Style of Music Characterized by Mathematical Objects Fundamentally Related to the Fibonacci Sequence. He holds a B.M. in Classical Composition from New England Conservatory of Music and a Zertifikat Ergänzungsstudium in Electro-Acoustic Composition from the Hochschule für Musik FRANZ LISZT in Weimar, Germany.

Developing works exploring the juxtaposition and interaction between physical kinetic form and visualization technology.

Gustavo Alfonso Rincon (M.Arch., MFA, B.Sc., BA) is educated as an architect, visual artist and currently is a Ph.D. student in the Graduate Program in the Media Arts and Technology (MAT) in the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB).  He holds Masters Degrees in Architecture and Urban Design from University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) as well as a Masters in Fine Arts from the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts).  Currently, he works with the AlloSphere Group as a researcher with JoAnn Kuchera-Morin at the California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI) in UCSB. 

My main interest is tools and interfaces for live electronic music performance.

F.Myles Sciotto is an architect interested in empirical space, the ways in which structure imposes affect and the dialogue between the visceral and theoretical experience.  F.Myles explores "Alternity", an experiential translation of the mind/body and how the subconscious is able to inform its surroundings. The goal is to develop intelligent architectures created from bio-data and pattern processing, synthesized within new spatial interfaces.

Wesley Smith is researching systems of spatial computation through spatial algebras, topology, and computational models of molecular biology such as artificial chemistry and ecosystems in the Allosphere Research Group and TransLab. Wesley is a co-developer of the LuaAV real-time audiovisual composition environment for large scale immersive spaces as well as a developer for the Max/MSP/Jitter audiovisual composition system by Cycling '74 in San Francisco.

Frederico Fialho Teixeira is pursuing his PhD degree with the research focus in the area of Visual and Spatial Arts. Currently his studies fall into the area of Biological Dimensions of Evolutionary Machines. In this field of research, he explores systems with emergent/evergent spatial characteristics able to embody multi-dimensional properties. This processes is established through elemental modularities which carry multiple algorithmic stratums. These machines develop within ubiquitous ecologies instigating multiple behaviors - both physical and virtual - and functioning immanently towards the evolution of a multi-dimensional space.

He holds a BArch in Architecture and Urbanism, a MA in History of Architecture from the Faculty of Architecture University of Porto, and recently a MArch from the Design Research Lab at the Architectural Association School of Architecture. He worked at architectural offices, including Alvaro Siza Vieira Architects, and Zaha Hadid Architects and he is the co-founder of [f]Flat research group.

Javier is an electrical engineer from the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana in Bogota Colombia and M.Sc in electrical and computer engineer from Los Andes university. His research interest is focused in multimedia signal processing. Currently working in analysis / synthesis approaches to video processing.

Exploring the creation of digital music, motion graphics and virtual worlds through the computational embodiment of complexity, systems biology and bio-inspired philosophy. Recent work: Artificial Nature, with fellow MAT Ph.D. student Haru Ji.

Co-developing an open-source multimedia framework (LuaAV) with fellow MAT Ph.D. student Wes Smith, within the context of the CNSI Allosphere, and working also a software developer for Cycling '74.

M.S. Media Arts & Technology, UCSB, USA.
M.Mus Composition: Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK.
B.A. Philosophy: University of Warwick, UK.