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RESEARCH

Research Labs

Research and creative work at the Media Arts and Technology Program spans a wide range of topics, projects, and laboratories. Areas of interest include the following:

  • Electronic music and sound design - Computer music and algorithmic composition; computer generated music; human-computer cooperation in music; design and synthesis of new sounds; sonic diffusion; 3D spatial sound.
  • Interactive art - Interactive art installations; generative and algorithmic art; immersive art environments; computational photography. Aesthetic research through the implementation of complex technologies for new forms of content, narratives, experiences and analysis.
  • Visualization - Scientific, information, and algorithmic visualization of complex, high-dimensional data; immersive visualization environments; applications in science, design, entertainment, and art.
  • Transarchitectures, transvergence, worldmaking, immersive cinema, spatial narrative, digital performance algorithmic fabrication, objective beauty, myth and media, philosophy of media arts and architectures, THEMAS ( (research and pedagogy framework advancing beyond STEM/STEAM model, to include Technologies/Humanities, Engineering/Mathematics, Arts/Sciences).
  • Multimedia signal processing.
  • Human-computer interaction.
  • Multimedia systems.
  • Robotics.

The AlloSphere

JoAnn Kuchera-Morin

Research in a fully immersive, spherical visualization environment with applications in science, engineering, and the arts.
AlloSphere
The AlloSphere

CREATE

Center for Research in Electronic Art Technology

JoAnn Kuchera-Morin, Curtis Roads.

Research and development of a new generation of software and hardware tools to aid in media-based composition, sound spatialization, sound synthesis, and notation of electronic music.
CREATE
CREATE

Experimental Visualization Lab

George Legrady

The Experimental Visualization Lab is dedicated to research, experimentation and projects in optical-computational, and multi-media based visual and spatial data visualization.
VisLab
ExpVisLab

Expressive Computation Lab

Jennifer Jacobs

Human-centered programming languages, creative systems engineering, computational fabrication. Creating flexible hardware and software platforms that allow artists, designers, and engineers to combine computational abstraction, automation, and generativity with direct-manipulation, manual control, and physical materials.
VisLab
Expressive Computation Lab

Four Eyes Lab

Matthew Turk, Tobias Hollerer

Research in imaging, interaction, and innovative interfaces - a mix of computer vision, augmented reality, mobile and wearable computing, and human computer interaction.
Four Eyes Lab
Four Eyes Lab

RE Touch Lab

Yon Visell

Haptics, Robotics, and VR. Investigating fundamental mechanisms of touch perception. Creating new technologies to enable people or robots to interact via the sense of touch.
RE Touch Lab
RE Touch Lab

Systemics Lab

Marko Peljhan

The Systemics Lab is devoted to the creative exploration of the edges of art, science and technology research with a special focus on robotics, interface design, signal processing, embedded systems, sensors and sensor networks, communications, applied aerospace systems, biological computing paradigms, sustainable computing paradigms, cybernetics and systems theory in general. The lab is equipped with multiple computer workstations, hardware prototyping facilities, and several exploratory micro-ecologies.
Systemics Lab
Systemics Lab

transLAB

Marcos Novak

Research in Worldmaking + Social VR, future cinema, transvergence, transarchitectures and algorithmic morphogenesis, archimusic, immersive, performative, interactive arts, digital humanities, THEMAS (research and pedagogy framework advancing beyond STEM/STEAM model, to include Technologies/Humanities, Engineering/Mathematics, Arts/Sciences).
transLAB
transLAB