Contents
1.
1 Life and work
1.
1.1 Artist
2.
1.2 Software Career
3.
1.3 Photographer
4.
1.4 Novelist
2.
2 References
3.
3 Selected works
4.
4 External links
Life and work
Mark Richard Beaulieu was born in Camp Gordon, Georgia, son of an Army Signal Corps officer, and grew
up in the US and Germany. After studying drawing and painting at UT Austin, he developed a Photorealist style making large-scale airbrush
paintings while at Trinity
University. There he minored in computer science learning APL to make computer generated film. He studied with and worked for pop
artist Wayne Thiebaud while getting his MFA at UC Davis. After a career as a senior software engineer in Silicon Valley he
emerged as a telecommunications director at Qualcomm and at Novatel
Wireless. He
is known for his wireless internet and multimedia technical books as well as
his 12th century historical fiction novels.
Artist
Beginning
an art career as a painter, Beaulieu received awards from The Art Museum of
South Texas, Corpus Christi[1], the 17th Annual Delta Art
Exhibition[2]. After placing at the 1975 Artists
Biennial at the New Orleans
Museum of Art, his work was reviewed in La Revue Moderne.[3] Giving two one-man shows at Laurie Auditorium Gallery in San Antonio
collectors took note, among them Joe Nicholson, industrialist Marshall Steves
Jr., and Dr. Donald Rubel. Moving to Northern California in 1976, Beaulieu
exhibited and received awards at wide range of state and local galleries.[4] Stylistically, Mark’s
art works have connections to Pop Art, and Photorealism. His pieces are often of urban
landscapes, gardens, sandscapes and waterscapes, featuring complex painterly
color spaces.
Software Career
Beaulieu
transitioned to software first creating digital paintings in 1976 at the Xerox
Palo Alto Research Center (Xerox PARC) with SuperPaint, "the first complete digital
paint system". In 1980 he entered the pHD program for software at UC
Irvine, but left to cofound Metatext Computers in Irvine, California inventing
its markup language, parsers, and system software for batch processing for
phototypesetters. He began a professional career as a software engineer in 1993
for Silicon Valley startups including Metaphor
Computers, General Magic, and Forethought which later sold its PowerPoint
software to Microsoft.[5]
As a
software consultant for his company Digital Lantern, Beaulieu developed
proprietary algorithms for naming services,[6] producing trade terminology for General Magic and a number of
companies. For Go Systems he generated PenPoint as the name of their operating
system. In 1993 he created the Digital Cities Restaurant Guide, one of the
first computer restaurant guides.[7] The software featured geocoded and
deep content for the 3,200 San Francisco restaurants[8] and eventually all 14,000 restaurants in the SF Bay Area. The interface
was designed by Nathan Shedroff[9]. Designed for Powerbooks, the
software was sold by Apple Computer and affiliate stores, the content updated
every season. The product was widely reviewed in the Bay Area.[10] Terry
Winograd
asked him to present the salient concepts of his innovative interfaces,
predictions for emerging consumer deep personal content at an HCI seminar at
Stanford University[11]. Many of the Digital Lantern
concepts and user interface are seen on Yelp.com.
Beaulieu
coauthored Demystifying Multimedia for Apple Computer in 1993, retitled as
Multimedia Demystified in 1995[12]. Research interviews for the book
showed that top designers were interested in understanding multimedia
principles. He taught the core of these findings as an instructor for the SFSU
Multimedia Studies Program[13] in the first and third quarter of
1996 in the course "Understanding Media: The Individual and Society with
Marshall McLuhan”, and invited Eric
McLuhan to
lecture at the SFSU program. Beaulieu programmed a multimedia kiosk for Apple
Computer that presented the ideas of Marshal McLuhan.[14] The kiosk was exhibited at special events such as Siggraph 1995 LA for
the opening of the Blue Man Group.[15]
In 1996
he transferred Digital Cities assets to Vivid Travel Network and worked as
their director of product development helping to develop a 25 language
web-based international travel guide. [16][17] Branded as Digital Cities the name was sold to AOL. When VTN dissolved,
Beaulieu created the United States Restaurant Guide which featured over 550,000
US restaurants. Content was licensed by many companies. USRG.COM was later
sold.
Beaulieu
began writing the book Wireless Internet Applications and Architecture[18] while at ICRAS, a subdivision of General
Magic. Cell phone inventor Martin Cooper wrote a significant forward and FCC chairman Tom Wheeler contributed promotional text[18]. The book became an international teaching
text for the design and development of mobile applications. Beaulieu focused on
a telecommunications career working as a software director at Qualcomm and Novatel
Wireless.
Photographer
Beaulieu
returned to his art career in 2008, focusing on digital photography and
printing. "Three Doors of the Petroveil" was awarded first place by
Arthur Ollman, Director of the San Diego Museum of Photographic Arts in the “Beyond the
Lens” exhibition that opened the Municipal Gallery in Escondido, CA.[19] Beaulieu collaborates with digital artist David Em photographing California freeways.
They exhibited their prints in The Secret Life of Freeways[20] in 2009. He is developing a “sand mirage” series which
suggest a wide range of compositional spaces.
Novelist
In 2012,
Beaulieu began writing a six-volume historical fiction series based on twelve
years of detailed research on the medieval life of Eleanor of
Aquitaine. The series builds on revised views of historians and feature detailed
reconstructed 12th century maps.[21] His research
will be presented to the Historical Novel Society in June 2015.
He and
his wife wrote The Artists Cookbook in 2014, focusing on art-oriented
cooking.
Reference Paintings
The
following large-scale photorealist acrylic airbrush on canvas paintings made in
1973-1979 exist in collections in the United States. Ten are available from the
artist.
References
1.
^ Jane Livingston, "Corpus
Christi Art Foundation Annual Exhibition", catalogue, 1975.
2.
^ "17th Annual Delta Art
Exhibition", Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock Arkansas, brochure 1974.
3.
^ Montoya, "Festival Annuel
D'Arkansas City," La Revue Moderne, Paris, December 1975/January 1976,
p30.
4.
^
”2nd place for painting”, Lodi 16th Art Annual, catalog.
5.
^
"COMPANY NEWS; Microsoft Buys Software Unit". New York Times.
1987-07-31. Retrieved November 17, 2014.
6.
^
“Mark Esserlieu (Beaulieu), marketing product manager, creative consultant”,
APDA-Worth Its Weight in Code, Apple brochure,1990, p 4.
8.
^ "The Traveling Mac",
MacUser, December 1993, p134.
10. ^
Gary Wolf, "Mac Attack", SF Weekly, March 9, 1994.
17.
^ "Regional Web Sites in Vivid Detail", San Francisco Examiner,
October 2, 1996, pp D1-D3 1993.
18. ^ a b "Wireless Internet Applications and Architecture:
Building Professional Wireless Applications Worldwide". Informit.com.
20. ^ "Secret Life of Freeways: Part One Art
exhibition: 9/12/2009, Gallery 262/EAP Escondido CA". Markbeaulieu.com.
21. ^ "Eleanor of Aquitaine: The Generation (The
Eleanor Code, Book 4) by Mark Richard Beaulieu". Historicalnovelsociety.org.
Selected Books
•
Multimedia Demystified
(co-author, originally Demystifying Multimedia) New York: Random House for
Apple Computer, 1995 ISBN
978-0679756033
•
Wireless Internet Applications and
Architecture New York: Addison-Wesley Professional, c2001 ISBN
978-0-201-73354-9
Eleanor Code
Novels
1.
Eleanor of Aquitaine: The Young Life - Alienor, Charleston:
CreateSpace, 2012 ISBN 978-1480147362
2.
Eleanor of Aquitaine: The Journey East - Helienordis, Charleston:
CreateSpace, 2012 ISBN 978-1480051577
3.
Eleanor of Aquitaine: The Voyage West - Al'nor, Charleston:
CreateSpace, 2013 ISBN 978-1484875087
External links
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