Rochele Gloor is a research artist, designer, and emerging technologist based in New York whose work explores the intersection of embodiment, metahumanism, and human–technology interaction.

 

She holds a BFA in Fashion Design from the Fashion Institute of Technology (NYC) and has a background in medical imaging (MRI) and computerized knitwear design. After returning to Brazil, Gloor founded her own fashion label as a laboratory for experimentation toward more sustainable futures in fashion. Through this work, she gained recognition as an award-winning sustainability advocate and woman-led entrepreneur. In 2020, she expanded her practice into digital art, embracing 3D applications and immersive technologies. She earned an MS in Creative Technologies with a focus on virtual reality and sound design, and published research on aesthetics in audiovisual VR experiences.

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Gloor has contributed to early generative AI advisory initiatives at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the School of Visual Arts in New York, where she currently serves as Assistant Director for Innovation Technologies in the MFA Computer Arts program. She is also an International Advisory Board member of the VIEW Conference and a collaborator with the ACM SIGGRAPH Education Committee. 

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Her research interests lie in technological embodiment and co-embodiment through real-time motion capture systems, multimodal generative AI, wellness technologies, Nature contemplation, fashion futures, agentic AI for the arts, phenomenological approaches. Experimentation is the core of her work, where process and ambiguity allow the exploration of new possibilities across physical and digital practices while examining Human relationships and co-existence with Nature and Technology in society.