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).

His collaborative projects were exhibited at the ACMMM 2017 Conference at the Computer History Museum in Palo Alto, California, 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, and SIGGRAPH 2020 Washington Convention Center in the D.C. (Virtual). The premiere opening exhibition of the Quantum Composition Research Series at the The Wolf Museum of Exploration + Innovation (MOXI), Santa Barbara, CA. Also exibited collaborative works with the translab and published with the Four Eyes Lab at UCSB.

EDUCATION
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).

During his tenure at UCSB he 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 projects.

PROFESSIONAL
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).

Rincon's arts + design works have been exhibited nationally and internationally, while simultaneously acting as an educator/research practioner in the fields of art, design, entrepreneurship, media arts, and history/theory. His architectural works includes projects in which he served as an Architectural Designer, Computational Designer/Fabricator, and Design Director/Project Manager, for clients in the Americas, China, Europe, Korea, and the United Arab Emirates. Rincon's motivations is the creation of a new field of inquiry (Shaping Space as Information), integrating the Arts, Architecture, and the Sciences.

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