Jacquelyn Ford Morie

Who is Jacquelyn Ford Morie?

Jacquelyn Ford Morie is an artist, scientist and educator working in the areas of immersive worlds, games and social networks. Until 2013 she was a Senior Research Scientist at the Institute for Creative Technologies. In 2013 she started a spin off company called All These Worlds, LLC to take her work in virtual worlds and avatars to a broader audience.

Morie was formally trained as an artist and medical illustrator but ultimately decided to pursue fine art. Her Bachelors degree in Fine Art was awarded cum laude by Florida Atlantic University in 1981. She next received a Masters degree in Fine Art from the University of Florida in 1984, studying with noted photographer Jerry Uelsmann.

She studied computer graphics at the University of Florida, under Professor John Staudhammer and received her Masters in Computer Science from University of Florida in 1988.

She then helped develop the Computer Graphic Design and Computer Animation programs at the Ringling College of Art and Design .

Seeking to create new forms of artwork in the emerging field of Virtual Reality, she accepted a researcher position at the Visual System Lab at University of Central Florida in Orlando, FL.