Mark Allen
PO Box 26900
Los Angeles, CA 90026
213.483.8761
markallen@markallen.com

Education

California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
Master of Fine Arts, 1999

Core Fellowship, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
Artist in Residence, 1993-1995

Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY
Bachelor of Fine Arts, Magna Cum Laude, 1993

Yale University Summer School of Art, Norfolk, CT, 1992

Teaching

Assistant Professor of Art, Pomona College, Claremont CA
Digital Art, Electronics for Artists. 2005 – present

Artist in Residence - Center for Integrated Media, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
2005 – present

Machine Project and C-level, Los Angeles, CA
Developed and taught curriculum in electronics and programming for artists. 2002 – present

Visiting Faculty, University of California San Diego, San Diego, CA
Computer programming, web design, electrical engineering and electronic media theory . 2001 – 2005

Teaching Assistant, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
Multimedia Programming. 1999

Teaching Assistant, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY
Printmaking 1992-1993

Related Work Experience

Freelance Electrical Engineer, Los Angeles, CA
development and construction of custom hardware for numerous artists and commercial clients including Verizon and the American Dental Association. 2003 - Present

Electrical Engineer, Concept Overdrive, Los Angeles, CA
development and implementation of animatronics hardware and software for major motion pictures. 2004-present

Software Engineer, Kick Media, Los Angeles, CA
Coded, maintained or managed development of server side software for 70+ employee internet firm using Perl, PHP, and MySQL in a Linux/Apache environment. 2000-2001

Director of Game Development, Carbon14, Los Angeles, CA
Designed and coded all front end and server side game applications using Lingo, mod Perl, and MySql. 1999-2001

Selected Projects

Founder and Director, Machine Project, Los Angeles, CA
Started alternative space for exhibition, promotion and teaching of technology and installation based art, 2004 - present

Founder, Los Angeles Art and Technology Hackers Club, Los Angeles, CA
Created a community based collective for experimenting with technology, 2003 – present

Co-founder and Member, C-level Media Lab, Los Angeles, CA
Created Los Angeles art and technology co-operative lab and performance space, 2001 - present

Curator, Aurora Picture Show, Houston, TX
Organized annual series by Los Angeles filmmakers, 1997-2005

Founder and Director, LAX Art Space, Houston, TX
Started commercially successful art gallery showing Los Angeles artists in Texas, 1998

Co-Founder, Society for Aesthetic Liberation, Houston, TX
Created lecture and propaganda series with Shaila Dewan, 1998

Founder and Director, Revolution Summer Art Space, Houston, TX
Started alternative art space based upon time as medium of exchange, 1997

Co-editor, Art Lies Magazine, Houston TX
Edited art journal with Don Carroll, 1994-1996

Selected Exhibitions

Waco Resurrection, Grand Arts Kansas City, MO 2004
Waco Resurrection, BananaRAM Festival Ancona, Mole Vanvitelliana, Italy 2004
Waco Resurrection, Next Wave FestivalMelbourne, Australia 2004
Waco Resurrection, Game Developers Convention (GDC) in San Jose, CA. 2004
Waco Resurrection, Rotterdam Film Festival Rotterdam, Netherlands 2004
Waco Resurrection, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA 2004

Waco Resurrection, The Kitchen New York City, NY 2003
Cockfight Arena/Tekken Torture Tournament, Adelaide Film Festival, Adelaide Australia 2003
Cockfight Arena, Mixture Gallery, Houston, TX. 2003
California Amateur Superstars (curator) Aurora Picture Show, Houston, TX. 2003

Summer Drawings, Mixture Gallery, Houston, TX. 2002

Ultimate Cockfight Arena, C-level media lab, Los Angeles, CA. 2001
Platinum Oasis, Los Angeles, CA. 2001
Violate Nature, Morongo Valley, CA. 2001
Tekken Torture Tournament, C-level media lab, Los Angeles, CA. 2001

Ars Moralis, Barbra Claasen-Schmal, Bremen, Germany. 2000
Bibli-lo-tech, Kerry Inman Gallery, Houston, TX. 2000
C level, video screening, C-level media lab, Los Angeles, CA. 2000

The Closet Show, Council Street Gallery, Los Angeles, CA. 1999
LA Freeways, video screening, Los Angeles, CA. 1999

Cal Arts Postal, Studio 9, London, England. 1998
California Special, video screening, Aurora Picture Show, Houston, TX. 1998
Earthquake and Afterlife, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA (solo). 1998

Self Portraits, Sally Sprout Gallery, Houston, TX (solo). 1997
Minor Superpowers, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA (solo). 1997
The Texas Show, ABC No Rio, New York, NY. 1997

The Fall Collection, Sally Sprout Gallery, Houston, TX (solo). 1996
Monstrous Double, Lawndale, Houston TX (with Mark Flood). 1996

Mark Allen and Sean Thornton, Museum of Contemporary Art, Las Vegas, NV. 1995
Sight Unseen, School of the Fine Arts, Grenoble, France. 1995

Lectures/Panels

Visiting artist lecture, Claremont Graduate School, Los Angeles, CA 2004
Visiting artist lecture, USC, Los Angeles, CA 2004
“C-level”, Visiting artist lecture, Cal Arts, Valencia California 2003
“The Future of Gaming”, Panel, Adelaide Film Festival, Adelaide Australia 2003
“New Directions in Interactive Art”, Panel, Adelaide Film Festival, Adelaide Australia 2003
“New California Filmmakers”, Lecture, Aurora Picture Show, Houston Texas 2003

Bibliography

Graddy, Sarah, “Survival Capsule for Culture”, RES Magazine, August 2004
Glentzer, Molly, “Come be a part of the Video Gong Show” Houston Chronicle, July 16, 2004
Plocek, Keith, “Gong Hits”, Houston Press, July 22, 2004
Hundley, Jessica, “The Ungallery”, Los Angeles Times, March 4, 2004
Pham, Alex, “Clash of the Featherweights”, Los Angeles Times, September 30, 2002
Guzik, Jon, “L.A. Artifacts”, Fine Magazine, Summer 2002
Alimirung, Gendy, “Art Happens”, LA Weekly, Nov 16 2001
Schwartz, Mara, “A Case of the Chickens Coming Home to Joust”, Los Angeles Times Magazine, Nov 4 2001
Voss, Karen, “C-level”, Res Magazine, September 2001
Klaasmeyer, Kelly, “Office Max,” Houston Press, March 29 2001
Colpitt, Frances, “Space City Takes Off,” Art in America, October 2000
Halverson, Meg, “Cleared for Landing”, MSN Sidewalk, July 1998
Anspon, Catherine, “Mark Allen: Self Portraits” Public News, July 1998
Nissimov, Ron, “Levitating lawn chair goes awry”, Houston Chronicle July 1997
Anspon, Catherine, “Monstrous Double” Public News, August 1997
Hummel, Bill, “Revolution Summer,” Art Lies, fall 1997