AVL
The AVL is a “Renaissance Team”, where each member of the AVL team plays a unique role and contributes a variety of skills to the process, development, and production. Our expertise includes advanced graphics and visualization techniques, artistic design, cinematic choreography, multimedia and video production, and data management and render wrangling. The Advanced Visualization Lab bridges the gap between science and the arts. We create high-resolution data-driven cinematic-quality visualizations for public outreach.
Kalina Borkiewicz
Director
Kalina Borkiewicz
Director & Viz Programmer
Kalina is a programmer in the AVL. She writes software, scripts, and plugins into commercial visual effects software to process and visualize various types of massive scientific data.
Stuart Levy
Viz Programmer
Stuart Levy
Viz Programmer
Stuart Levy is a senior programmer and system administrator in the AVL.
Jeffrey Carpenter
Viz Artist
Jeffrey Carpenter
Viz Artist
Jeff Carpenter is a multimedia specialist and designer in the AVL.
Brad Thompson
Viz Artist
Brad Thompson
Viz Artist
Brad Thompson came to AVL from Spitz Creative Media, where he helped pioneer immersive theater production workflow in the mid/late 1990s at Spitz. His fulldome credits include award-winners and some of the most popular and widely distributed in the world: “Oasis in Space,” “Dynamic Earth,” the “Zula Patrol” series, “Black Holes: the Other Side of Infinity,” and “Solar Superstorms.”
Donna Cox
Founder, Former Director
Donna Cox
Former Director
Professor in the School of Art and Design, Associate Director for Research & Education, Director of the AVL and the eDream Institute, and Theme Lead for Culture and Society at the NCSA at the University of Illinois.
Robert Patterson
Viz Artist, retired
Robert Patterson
Consultant, Viz Artist, retired
Bob Patterson is a senior designer and camera choreographer in the AVL.
The Advanced Visualization Laboratory (AVL) is committed to communicating science and inspiring audiences to learn about scientific concepts through capturing the thrill of scientific discovery and the wonder of complex systems. Working in close collaboration with domain scientists, AVL creates high-resolution, cinematic, data-driven scientific visualizations.