Artist Bio

REBECCA ALLEN is director of "Emergence," an Intel-funded research project and Founding Co-director, Center for Digital Arts (CDA). She is an internationally recognized artist, designer, and pioneer of projects involving computer animation, interactive media, and live multimedia performances. Allen has received commissions for work from the city of Barcelona; Taejon World Expo '93; Seville World Expo '92; Rebo High Definition Studios; TVE, TV3, and Animatica and Art Futura in Spain. Clients include CBS, NBC, Fox, PBS/Nova, Warner, Mattel, Phillips, Apple's Vivarium Project, and Island Records.  She was a member of the Architecture Machine Group at MIT, now known as the Media Lab, and of the Computer Graphics Lab at New York Institute of Technology, and was creative director and executive producer at Virgin Interactive Entertainment. Awards include an Emmy for Outstanding Individual Achievement, and Japan's Nicograph Award for Artistic and Technical Excellence. Her work has been published, televised, performed, and exhibited internationally, and is part of the permanent collection of the Whitney Museum of Art in New York, Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, and the Ludwig Museum in Cologne.

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