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Biography
Rebecca Allen is an internationally recognized artist and researcher inspired by the potential of advanced technology, the aesthetics of motion and the study of behavior. Over the past three decades, Allen has worked extensively in Europe and the US producing commissioned works that define new forms of art and technology. Her interactive art installations, films and large-scale performance works have received outstanding recognition from the worlds of fine art, performing arts, media entertainment and technology research.
Rebecca holds a Professorship at the Department of Design | Media Arts at UCLA and was founding Chair of her department. Over the past two years she has worked with One Laptop per Child (OLPC), a global-scale education project known as the $100 Laptop. She served as Design Manager for industrial design of the laptop and is creating animated on-screen graphics.
From 2003-2005, Rebecca was Senior Research Scientist and founding director of the Liminal Devices research group at Media Lab Europe in Dublin, Ireland. From 1996-2002 she directed the Emergence Project at UCLA, an Intel funded research effort involving artificial life, 3D virtual environments, augmented reality and unique interfaces. As is typical for Allen, the research was applied to artistic works as well.
Previously, Allen was Creative Director/Executive Producer and 3D Visionary at video game company, Virgin Interactive Entertainment; she was a member of the world-renowned NYIT Computer Graphics Laboratory and MIT's Architecture Machine Group (predecessor of MIT Media Lab). Rebecca received a BFA from Rhode Island School of Design and MS from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Allen has worked extensively in Europe and the US, producing commissioned works that define new forms of art and technology. She has collaborated with artists such as Kraftwerk, Mark Mothersbough from Devo, John Paul Jones from Led Zeppelin, Peter Gabriel, Carter Burwell, Twyla Tharp, Joffrey Ballet and La Fura dels Baus. Her artwork is exhibited internationally and is part of the permanent collection of the Whitney Museum in New York and Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris.
Rebecca has also designed and directed cutting-edge projects for numerous clients including TimeWarner, Island, Mattel, Philips, Nintendo, CBS, NBC, FOX, PBS, Seville World Expo '92, Apple and DARPA. Awards include an Emmy award for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Design.
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