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The research in our lab uses advanced data science techniques to understand how water, plants, geology and climate interact in a tightly coupled system – and how humans are changing this system.
Research topics
- Computer Science
- Telecommunications
- Art
- Human–computer interaction
- Architectural engineering
- Aesthetics
- Visual arts
- Computer graphics (images)
- Engineering
Selected publications
Mediating Public Space: Art and Technology That Goes Beyond the Frame Art Gallery
Leonardo · 2020
- Computer Science
- Visual arts
- Art
Algotecton (from algorithm and tecton-carpentry, articulation) is a site-specific generative sculpture inspired by the Weaire-Phelan structure, a mathematical construct that approximates the geometry of foam. It comprises 16 interlocking polyhedra fabricated using advanced parametric modeling and computer numerical control (CNC) technologies. Evocative of different natural formations-a crystalline structure, a kelp forest, a molecular compound-the sculpture responds to Kendall Buster's Parabiosis II piece at the street level of the Washington Convention Center in Washington, D.C. Algotecton harnesses state-of-theart computational design and fabrication techniques to give material expression to mathematical concepts, invite discovery and playfully transform people's perception of space and form.
2020 · 1 citations
- Computer Science
- Computer Science
- Human–computer interaction
What would it be like to have a shared VR experience and to be present---to really feel presence together---in immersive worlds unimagined, from the atomic to the cosmic?
Frequent coauthors
- 3 shared
Andrés Cabrera
University of California, Santa Barbara
- 3 shared
JoAnn Kuchera-Morin
University of California, Santa Barbara
- 2 shared
Gustavo Rincon
University of California, Santa Barbara
- 2 shared
Timothy Wood
University of California, San Diego
- 2 shared
Hannah E. Wolfe
Colby College
- 1 shared
Joseph Tilbian
- 1 shared
Alex Bundy
Adler Planetarium
- 1 shared
Daniel Cardoso Llach
Carnegie Mellon University
Education
- 2021
Ph.D., Media Arts and Technology
University of California, Santa Barbara
- 2016
M.S., Media Arts and Technology
University of California, Santa Barbara
- 2008
B.S., ECE
Cornell University
Awards & honors
- John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship in Visual Arts (2016)
- Making Visible the Invisible (permanent installation at Seat…
- Creative Capital Foundation support
- Daniel Langlois Foundation for the Arts, Science and Technol…
- Canada Council for the Arts support
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