JoAnn Kuchera-Morin

[4] Kuchera-Morin initiated and was Chief Scientist of the University of California Digital Media Innovation Program (DiMI) from 1998 to 2003.

[2][5] The culmination of Kuchera-Morin’s creativity and research is the AlloSphere instrument, a 30-foot diameter, 3-story high metal sphere inside an echo-free cube, designed for immersive, interactive scientific and artistic investigation of multi-dimensional data sets.

Scientifically, the AlloSphere is an instrument for gaining insight and developing bodily intuition about environments into which the body cannot venture—abstract higher-dimensional information spaces, the worlds of the very small or very large, and the realms of the very fast or very slow.

Artistically, it is an instrument for the creation and performance of avant-garde new works and the development of new modes and genres of expression and forms of immersion-based entertainment.

[4] Her music features some of the earliest and most extensive use of phase vocoder transformations (stretching 30 seconds into 3 minutes, spectral glissandi, etc.).