Marcos Novak Liquid Architecture | SCI-Arc Media Archive. CITU. Marcos Novak. Institute for the Unstable Media — V2_ Institute for the Unstable Media. Mapping terrain in space and time: Exclusive interview with JoAnn Kuchera-Morin of the AlloSphere. Dr. JoAnn Kuchera-Morin works on the AlloSphere, one of the largest scientific and artistic instruments in the world. Based at UC Santa Barbara, the AlloSphere maps complex data in time and space. Dr. Kuchera-Morin, a composer, demoed the AlloSphere at TED2009 in February, showing five films of scientific data mapped visually and sonically into compelling art. Last week I talked with Dr. Kuchera-Morin about the AlloSphere — what it does, how it works, who uses it, and how you turn raw data into sound.
From the interview: Some of my mathematician colleagues are working with 6-dimensional figures. There are scientists who have lost the ability to perceive their data. Read the full interview >> More: If you’re around Santa Barbara next week, hear JoAnn Kuchera-Morin’s work at the Primavera Festival More: For a celebration of boundary-breaking science research, read “In search of the black swans,” Physicsworld April 2009So what’s going on at the AlloSphere?
Constructs? You don’t sit.