Rebecca Allen (artist)
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Rebecca Allen | |
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Born | 1954 |
Nationality | American |
Education | Rhode Island School of Design, Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
Known for | computer art |
Rebecca Allen (born 1954) is an international artist inspired by a variety of media to create work from 3-D computer graphics, animation, music videos, video games, performance works, artificial life systems, multisensory interfaces, interactive installations, virtual and mixed reality.[1] A pioneer in the field of computer art, her work addresses humanizing technology.[2][3]
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Biography
Allen received her BFA at Rhode Island School of Design in 1975[4] and her MS in architecture machine group (predecessor to MIT Media Lab) from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1980.[5] She is currently professor at, and was founding chair of, the UCLA Department of Design, Media Arts.[6] She worked at New York Institute of Technology's Computer Graphics Laboratory.
Fast Company named Allen one of the Most Creative People in Business for 2010.[7] She helped pioneer computer art by creating one of the first music videos to use 3D graphics, for the 1986 Musique Non Stop by Kraftwerk.[2][4] Allen has collaborated with music and performing artists such as Mark Mothersbaugh (Devo), John Paul Jones (Led Zeppelin), Peter Gabriel, Carter Burwell, Joffrey Ballet and Twyla Tharp.[citation needed]
Her artwork is part of the permanent collection of Centre Georges Pompidou, the Whitney Museum and Museum of Modern Art.[8] Awards include a 1981-82 Emmy for outstanding achievement in design for the title sequence for CBS Walter Cronkite's Universe.[citation needed]
Work
This is a list of selected design work by Allen.
2002 The Brain Stripped Bare
The installation and performance considers a future where we live simultaneously in multiple realities, where the boundaries between physical and virtual reality are blurred and thoughts are expressed telepathically. Commissioned as part of the rhein.tanzmedia.net-Prize Partially funded by the Intel Research Council.[9][10]
2001 Coexistence
An Interactive Art Installation that blurs the boundaries between physical and virtual realities. People experience a shared world of mixed reality through a unique sensory interface using breathing and haptics. Funded by IDII Interaction Design Institute Ivrea, Italy.[11]
1997-2001 The Bush Soul
A series of three interactive art installations involving artificial life, behavior, tactile interfaces and 3D virtual environment. Exhibited internationally this work utilizes a PC based software system called Emergence. Music by Mark Mothersbaugh-Devo / Mutato Muzika[12][13][14]
Art exhibitions & performances
- 2003 - Women in Science (Genomically Yours) (The Bush Soul #3) Universal Concepts Unlimited Gallery, New York, NY[14]
- 2003 - Sound & Vision - The Music Video (Musique Non-Stop) Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Curator: Tomoe Moriyama, December 2002-February 2003, Tokyo, Japan
- 2002 - The Brain Stripped Bare Installation and Performance. Tanzhaus NRW, Düsseldorf, Germany.[10]
- 2001 - Mixed Realities Exhibition, (Coexistence) Interaction Design Institute Ivrea Gallery, Ivrea, Italy
- 2000 - Computer, Games and Art Exhibition, (The Bush Soul #3) Beall Center for Art and Technology, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA
References
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External links
- Rebecca Allen's website
- Interview with Rebecca Allen from June 11, 2015
- Articles with hCards
- Articles with unsourced statements from August 2015
- Articles with unsourced statements from December 2015
- American multimedia artists
- American women installation artists
- American women video artists
- New media artists
- 20th-century American artists
- 21st-century American artists
- Rhode Island School of Design alumni
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni
- University of California, Los Angeles faculty
- Living people
- Place of birth missing (living people)
- 20th-century women artists
- 21st-century women artists
- New York Institute of Technology faculty
- American designers
- 1954 births