Talks

Experiments on Embodiment in Real-Time Future

The New Age of Creativity and Technology Convergence!

Rochele Gloor is a designer, researcher, and emergent technologies artist in New York, NY. She received a BFA from the Fashion Institute of Technology, working for designers like Oscar de La Renta and Calvin Klein Collection. Upon returning to her home country of Brazil, Rochele founded her label as a laboratory of experimentation for the fashion future, where she gained recognition as an award-winning social activist and strong advocate for sustainability as a woman-led entrepreneur. In 2020, she transitioned her practice to digital art and embraced 3D animation applications and immersive technologies. She received a Master of Science in Creative Technologies with a focus on VR and Sound Design and has published research on aesthetics in audio-visual VR experience. She is an advisory member of generative AI at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and at the School of Visual Arts, in New York, where she works as Assistant Director for Innovation Technologies in the MFA Computer Arts Program. Her research is centered on sound design for wellness and experiments with artificial embodiment and avatars in real-time motion capture and AI.