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For over thirty years Rebecca Allen has investigated a variety of technological forms of expression including 3D computer animation films, music videos, large-scale performance works, interactive art installations, video games, artificial life systems and virtual reality. Allen is not interested in technology for its own sake, however. Rather, she is interested in a technoculture which humanizes technology even while maintaining a critical stance towards it. Or perhaps one can even say that it is her critical approach towards technology that helps humanize it.

Allen demonstrates this critical approach with her concern with artistic quality and the conceptual integrity of her work—a conceptual integrity that stresses the effect on the mind of the viewer. Indeed her main concern appears to be the investigation of the perceptual and cognitive processes of the viewer. Thus she approaches technology from an almost expressionistic angle, where human feeling and emotional reaction predominate the art. (Text by Frank Popper)
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source: rebeccaallen

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. 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. Awards include an Emmy award in Design.