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Media
Artist
Professor, Department of Design | Media Arts University of California Los Angeles Telephone:
310.825.6392
Rebecca
Allen is an internationally recognized media artist, inspired by the potential
of advanced technology and the aesthetics of motion. She has produced a
number of commissioned works in Europe and the US including interactive
installations, computer animated films and live multimedia performance. Most
recently, Allen has been creating and exhibiting a series of interactive
art installations that explore concepts of human presence, artificial life
and behavior. One interacts through innovative sensory interfaces while
immersed in a projected three-dimensional virtual environment. This work
utilizes a PC-based software system called Emergence developed by
Allen's research team with a grant from Intel Corporation. She is now experimenting
with the integration of virtual and physical environments to create a unique
experience of simultaneous realities. Rebecca
was founding co-director of the Center for Digital Arts at University of
California Los Angeles (UCLA) and founding chair of the newly formed UCLA
Department of Design | Media Arts, where she is currently a professor. Allen
received a BFA from Rhode Island School of Design and MS from Massachusetts
Institute of Technology. She was a member of the Architecture Machine Group
at MIT (now known as MIT Media Lab) followed by six years at the NYIT Computer
Graphics Laboratory, a world renowned computer animation research center.
From 1993-95 she was Creative Director and 3D Visionary at Virgin Interactive
Entertainment where she produced games and investigated the creative potential
of future interactive game technology. Awards
include an Emmy award for "Outstanding Individual Achievement" and Japan's
Nicograph award for "Artistic and Technical Excellence". Her work has been
exhibited, published, televised and performed internationally, and is part
of the permanent collection of the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris and
the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York. She was recently nominated
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