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[AlloSphere @ UCSB] Sr. Design Researcher + Curator || [DigitalFUTURES World] Steering Cmte. Mem. || [ACM SIGGRAPH Digital Arts Community] Cmte. Mem. || [New Media Architecture(s)] Founder
NMA (Research) NMA (Futures) NMA (Exhibitions)
Gustavo Alfonso Rincon (Ph.D., M.Arch., M.F.A, B.Sc., B.A.) received a Doctorate of Philosophy from the Media Arts & Technology Program (MAT) working for the AlloSphere Research Group in the California NanoSystems Institute at University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB).
Rincon is educated as a design architect | media arts researcher. Rincon also holds Masters Degrees in Architecture and Urban Design (Architecture and Urban Design) from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) as well as a Masters in Fine Arts from the California Institute of the Arts School of Art (CalArts).He holds Bachelor's degrees of Science in Architecture from the School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation and of Arts from the Art Department at University of Maryland, College Park (UMD).
AlloSphere - Research as a Human Right
Rincon worked as an Architectural Designer with architectural firms in Los Angeles, CA serving clients in the U.S., Europe, United Arab Emirates, and China. Simultaneously, he worked as an Industrial & Interactive Designer, creating events & theatrical set designs in which he combined media arts, computational design, and engineering into new multisensorial manufactured environments.
Rincon served as Director of the Foundation for Art Resources (F.A.R.) in Los Angeles for 4 years and created events collaborating with the Japanese American National Museum (JANM), Los Angeles Municipal Gallery (LAMAG) & Theatre, and Campus at Barnsdall Art Park, MAK Center for Art and Architecture (MAK) and Museum of Contemporary Arts, Los Angeles (MOCA).
AlloSphere @ PST Art 2024 - Sketches of Sensorium
His collaborative projects with the AlloSphere Research Group were exhibited at various conferencesfor the ACM including the ACMMM 2017 Conference at the Computer History Museum in Palo Alto, California, SIGGRAPH 2020 Washington Convention Center in the D.C. (Virtual). Conference at the Los Angeles Convention Center in LA, CA - USA, SIGGRAPH 2023 Washington Convention Center in the D.C. (Virtual). Along with Conferences for ISEA including the ISEA 2017 Conference at Museo de Arte de Caldas in Manizales, Colombia, the ISEA 2019 Conference at the Asia Culture Center in Gwaungju, Republic of Korea. The premiere opening exhibition of the Quantum Composition Research Series at the The Wolf Museum of Exploration + Innovation (MOXI), Santa Barbara, CA.
Also exhibited collaborative works and demos with the translab including the Synaptic Time Tunnel at ACM SIGGRAPH 5OTH, LA and published with the Four Eyes Lab at UCSB.
Recently a few projects have been realized in collaboration with Visions 2030, TED 2024 Vancouver, & Pacific Standard Time (PST) Art. Sketches of Sensorium will debut at the AlloSphere as a satellite of the BEALL, UCI opening August 2024.
SIGGRAPH Conference 50th Anniversay 2023 - Synaptic Time Tunnel Team @ UCSB
Rincon's Art/Design/Media events planning experiences have continued with the development of new exhibition experiments within AlloSphere instrument and the Media Arts and Technology Program at CNSI @ UCSB -- developed in collaboration with Dr. JoAnn Kuchera-Morin and the AlloSphere Research Group. Recently much of the curatorial online and physical exhibitions
His event works has spanned Industry, Research Universities, Colleges (Private & Public), & NonProfit Institutions (National & International) -- online & physical sites.
Leonardo/ISAST | SciArt Santa Fe - Laser Talks " The Information Commons: Telluride 2024 The Nature of Information" - LASER #10 - 2024
ACM SIGGRAPH DAC & Art Gallery 2023 - SPARKS
His current academic service role is facilitating the Digital Futures World/International programs of summer festivals & weekly online panels programs Online - WorldWide starting historically from Tongji University (Shanghai, China), as an Steering Committee Member, Curator, & Regional Manager (Western U.S.A.). Currently is working as a committee member - curator for ACM SIGGRAPH DAC creating panels & exhibitions.
Finally, Rincon has served as a peer reviewer for SIGGRAPH &SIGGRAPH-Asia - Arts Papers Track + Art Gallery, a peer reviewer for the Leonardo | MIT Press Journal, America, and serves as an Editorial Board Member of Design International Series at Franco Angeli, Milan. He was recently selected to be a Juror for the Eric and Wendy Schmidt Awards for Excellence in Science Communications, for the National Academies of Sciences(NAS), Engineering (NAE), & Medicine (NAM).
DigitalFUTURES - Education as a Human Right
DigitalFUTURES 2023 International Festival Closing Ceremony - 2023
DigitalFUTURES 2023 International Festival Closing Ceremony - 2024
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NMA critically explores a vision of the unification of information as space, focusing on the intersection of the arts, architecture and sciences. Everything is information. Space is information. Complex systems are information. Our world outside of our understanding is information. All movement around that links all of humanity together, commerce, the internet, and telecommunications is information. All of knowledge, and the imaginary potential of speculative futures is information.
Today, information is organized and shaped by algorithms, the abstract nature that forms our physical reality of mass and scale plus time. The algo-computational paradigm that controls our world uses information as data; has changed our societal evolutionary trajectory. This research practice is an exploration of shaping space and the existing underlying structure of movements of complex systems that create our world.
NMA is investigating the hidden potentials of informational structures as opportunities in the creation of a new field of research for the creation of new equitable worlds.
SENSORIUM @ DASER Wonder Workshop October 2022: Exhibition, Community Outreach, with JoAnn Kuchera-Morin
SIGGRAPH Conference 50th Anniversay 2023 - Synaptic Time Tunnel Team @ UCSB
SIGGRAPH 2023: Autodesk's Jocelyn Moffatt @ SIGGRAPH Conference 50th Anniversay 2023 - Synaptic Time Tunnel Team @ UCSB
SIGGRAPH Conference 50th Anniversay 2023 - Synaptic Time Tunnel Team @ UCSB
Shaping Space as Information: A Conceptual Framework for New Media Architectures
New Media Architectures (NMA) will be introduced as a new field of research. In a series of designs, exhibitions, and studies, a New Media Architectural methodology is presented as a conceptual framework that will draw upon the strengths of the disciplines of art, architecture, media arts, and the sciences to form a new hybrid discipline. From those fields, three subareas of research form the field of NMA: Algorithms, Worldmaking, and Instrument Design.
Starting from the notion that every material object/structure embodies the information that enables its use, the computational platform facilitates exploring generative information constructs as ever-changing dynamic structures, comparable to the self-organizing systems found in nature. Everything is information. Space is information. Complex Systems are information. Our world outside of our understanding is information; all movement around information links all of humanity together, commerce, the internet, and telecommunications. The use of self-organizing systems as a research challenge is a true reflection of how our world functions through our contemporary understanding of the sciences.
The problems that are engaged within the computational platform as a tool, the formal computational mathematical languages and structures are not used as a new spatial sensory paradigm for discovery. One question: at the dawn of a new era of Artificial Intelligence and Quantum computing, how will we shift the paradigm from the current limitations in domain specificity of the software, accommodating this new field of NMA? Additionally, how will we accommodate the spatial environment encompassing multi-dimensionality of dynamically varying data as information in the various sensory modalities (sight, sound, and the other senses). Each of the arts research areas has its own unique problems to solve, but focusing on how each one produces patterns and space in time reveals opportunities to explore and make new discoveries benefiting humanity as a whole.
A study of forms, patterns, and spaces has been undertaken for creating generative media artworks designed for amplifying the reciprocal relationship between an environment that shapes its content and content that shapes its environment. As part of my practice in the media arts, I used the domain knowledge of architecture to tackle problems of art, engineering, and science to reveal form and shape.
The primary focus of this research is the generation of unique forms of architecture using agent-based behaviors controlled by self-organizing systems. These unique forms of architecture determine, and are, in turn, determined by, the shape of virtual worlds/environments. This dissertation draws from the concept of complex systems to investigate relationships between the systems’ parts and their whole and how the systems’ parts give rise to its collective behavior. This notion of complex systems theory will be applied to the making of this new field. While the computational platform that controls our world uses information as data and has changed our societal progress, currently, the algorithm is the tool that generates the content and the model and makes the world and the information that resides within it. Complexity becomes an essential key for shaping space as information.
Another important focus of this research is the investigation of software platforms that provide the fundamental instruments that produce the content, and that help make and shape the virtual worlds/environments.
Revealing these manmade and natural systems requires a new conceptual framework for an emergent research field, an evolution of a series of investigations that combines artistic and lab investigations creating experimental works and prototypes. The challenges of each artistic immersive work or scientific visualization problem build on each other to probe questions of composition, narrative, and computational system logic. My independent experiments leveraging projects from the Four Eyes Lab and TransLab will be highlighted. The work with Dr. Kuchera-Morin and the AlloSphere Research Team will be cited as part of my contributions are:
1. Creation of a new conceptual framework for the Media Arts: New Media Architectures
2. Advancing a research practice based on New Media Architectures
3. Creation of a historical foundational timeline tracing New Media Architectures
New Media Architectures - CAA 2021
DF Talk - New Media Architecture(s) - 2021
ACM SIGGRAPH DAC - SESSION - 2022
ACM SIGGRAPH DAC - SESSION - 2024
Leonardo/ISAST | SciArt Santa Fe - Laser Talks " The Information Commons: A Dialogue - Telluride 2024 The Nature of Information" - LASER #12 - 2024
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Rincon while simultaneously working as a Architectural Designer, Entrepreneur, & Researcher, has priorized teaching as an experimental laboratory and think tank space to mentor students in speculative futures in the Arts/Architecture/Design/Media disciplines. Rincon has served as a Professor without Tenure, Adjunct Professor, Teaching Assistant,Technical Assistant & Workshop Instructor at Research Universities, & Colleges - Private (Art + Design) & Community.
Currently, I am focused on fundamental research into media analysis through the medium of instrument and tool creation (Hardware & Software) and cultural production.
At UCSB Rincon simultaneously worked as a teaching assistant for both the Media Arts & Technology Program (MAT) and the Technology Management Program (TMP) for the College of Engineering. He also worked for the Computer Science Department (CS), the UC Institute for Research in the Arts (UCIRA), and MAT on special program projects.
DF Talk - Young: Metaverse & Architecture
DF - Conversations on Inclusivity Series (Day 1 of 5) - Open Access and Participatory Design Education
DF - Conversations on Inclusivity Series (Day 3 of 5) - Critical Computation
DF - Young : Theory of AI & Creativity
Legends : Denise Scott Brown
Legends : John Frazer
The constant in all of my experiential stages is the desire to do something new and if teaching simultaneously lead my students through the journey of mediating history, practice, and theory together as a method for problem solving.
The curiosity of researching the boundaries of what is possible in a combined Art, Design and Science research-practice encourages students to foster their own curiosity and questioning of existing norms and theoretical cultural paradigms.
I have managed throughout my career to take what is possible and to quickly synthesize tangible steps of action to accomplish abstract goals. The outcomes for my students have ranged from creating Art & Design practice (Exhibitions), creating business/startups (entrepreneurial practice), and/or working for larger corporations (Apple Inc.).
The design process has been an invaluable tool for investigating all forms of ideas, utilizing the art of creating and communicating concepts. My steps include:
Monuments to the Pluriverse: anticolonial, artisanal, utilitarian new media art production || A Presentation by Gustavo Alfonso Rincon & Joshua Dickinson @ SIGGRAPH 2024
Sensorium Research @ AlloSphere funded by Qualcomm Founder: Architecture & Explainer
Sensorium Research @ AlloSphere funded by Qualcomm Founder: Architecture & Concept Design "Vision"
Sensorium Research @ AlloSphere funded by Qualcomm Founder: Architecture & Immersive Virtual Environemnts (I.V.E.)
AlloPortal @ CNSI - Prototyping Research Lab for the AlloSphere Facility
I believe in community empowerment and unity through participation in content creation (Art, Events & Lectures).
I have prioritized a practice to facilitate learning outcomes enabling project implementation and knowledge creation.
White Noise Exhibition Catalog | Editors: Jing Yan · Alexis Story Crawshaw · Gustavo Alfonso Rincon
EoYS "White Noise" -- Keynote Lecure Zhang Ga (PART 01)
EoYS "White Noise" -- Keynote Lecure Zhang Ga (PART 02)
EoYS "White Noise" -- MAT Faculty Panel (PART 01)
EoYS "White Noise" -- MAT Faculty Panel (PART 02)
George Legrady, Marko Peljhan, Marcos Novak, Yon Vissel, JoAnn Kuchera-Morin, & Matthew Turk along with Zhang Ga
My role is to inspire young minds of all ages, challenge authority,
& facilitate innovation leading to new research visions for worldchanging.
ACM SIGGRAPH DAC - SESSION - June 2023
Decolonial SPARKS talk - New Media Architectures and Decoloniality - 2022
Lumens Prize 2020 / Leonardo/ISAST - Online Exhibition
Leonardo/ISAST + Arts/Sci UCLA 2020 @ Ars Electronica Online Talk
