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Philip van Allen

Professor
Grad Media Design
www.philvanallen.com

Biography

Phil van Allen is an interaction design consultant, researcher, technologist and educator whose work ranges from the practical to the speculative. He is a core faculty member and Professor in the Media Design Practices MFA program. In his research, van Allen is developing animistic design as a new approach to AI that builds productive ecosystems for creative work. He is the creator of the Delft AI Toolkit, an open source toolkit that makes designing and building working prototypes of AI based systems accessible to the designer’s process. van Allen also writes about interaction design and is a consultant for industry with clients such as Jaguar Land Rover, Razorfish, Acura, USC, GPJ and yU+co.

Clients


  • A+D Museum
  • Infiniti
  • Acura
  • George P. Johnson
  • The Huntington Library
  • Interval Research
  • Philips
  • Yahoo/Launch Media
  • USC Rossier School of Education
  • Nestle
  • U2
  • The Germs
  • Razorfish
  • Yoko Ono
  • yU+co

Publications

  • Animistic design: how to reimagine digital interaction between the human and the nonhuman - Digital Creativity 2016

  • AniThings: animism and heterogeneous multiplicity - SIGCHI conference paper 2013

Memberships

  • ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)
  • IXDA (Interaction Design Association)

Awards

  • AIGA 50 Books/50 Covers 2007 - The New Ecology of Things
  • Winner, FITC Design and Technology Festival - Acura Oracles
  • Winner, Communication Arts Interactive Design Annual 12 - Infinite Interactive Mirrors
  • Best Teacher Award, Art Center College of Design
  • Invision Award, Best Interactive Magazine Design - Launch Magazine
  • Patent 6,164,541 Methods and systems for providing human/computer interfaces
  • Patent 6,411,994 Interface system for providing content using context hotspots

Exhibitions

  • Nucleus Gallery, Alhambra CA - Corporate Delicti, 2005,
  • ArtCommotion.com - Yoko Ono - One Woman Show, 1996,
  • SIGGRAPH Interactive Lounge, Los Angeles - Musical World, 1995,
  • Detroit International Auto Show - Infiniti Booth, 2006,
  • Detroit International Auto Show - Acura Booth, 2007/2008,
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