Rebecca Allen 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.
Education
Allen received her Bachelor of Fine Arts at Rhode Island School of Design in 1975 and her Mississippi in architecture machine group (predecessor to Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Laboratory) from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1980.
Career
A pioneer in the field of computer art, her work addresses humanizing technology. She is currently professor at, and was founding chair of, the University of California, Los Angeles Department of Design, Media Arts. 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.
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. 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.
Her artwork is part of the permanent collection of Centre Georges Pompidou, the Whitney Museum and Museum of Modern Artist