Sheldon Brown (artist)
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Sheldon Brown is an American
artist
and Professor of Computer Art at the University of California, San Diego. He is the Director of the Center for Research in Computing and the Arts
at UCSD, a founder of the California Institute of Information Technologies and Telecommunications, where he is currently the Artist-in-Residence, and he is director of the Experimental Game Lab.
Brown's work examines the relationships between mediated and physical experiences. This work often exists across a range of public realms.
Examples of this include projects such as "In the Event" at the Key arena in Seattle where nine computers choreographed multiple video streams across 28 monitors in a real time constructive engagement with the spectator's act of envisioning the events of the arena. In "The Video Wind Chimes" - an outdoor video installation/street lighting project – the section of the electromagnetic spectrum used for television broadcast was transformed into the passive illumination of a nocturnal lighting system, articulated by the wind. Projects such as "Smoke and Mirrors" and "Mi Casa es tu Casa", use the contextual apparatus of museums with adjacent mission scopes to the artworld, for bringing avant-garde strategies to engage ranges of social issues to venues that often use more pedantic forms of discourse.
His later projects include "The Scalable City", with exhibitions at Ars Electronica, Shanghai MOCA, India International Center in New Delhi, SIGGRAPH 2007 and the National Academy of Sciences. And a series of sculptures, Istoria, which explore the intersection of the virtual and physical worlds, created with a variety of computer controlled processes, and several interactive environments that utilize a cross-fertilization of virtual reality and game technologies.
Game Theorist Noah-Wardrip Fruin wrote of Brown's Scalable City project that it "may not seem like gameplay at all" and provides the player little structure or agency, but still creates a pleasurable experience of destruction, therefore still asking an important question about people's relationships to their environment.
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and Professor of Computer Art at the University of California, San Diego. He is the Director of the Center for Research in Computing and the Arts
Center for Research in Computing and the Arts
The Center for Research in Computing and the Arts is an interdisciplinary organized research unit of UCSD in San Diego, Califorina. CRCA provides support for numerous projects which intersect with the fields of New Media Art, Software Studies, Game studies, Art/Science collaborations, Mixed...
at UCSD, a founder of the California Institute of Information Technologies and Telecommunications, where he is currently the Artist-in-Residence, and he is director of the Experimental Game Lab.
Brown's work examines the relationships between mediated and physical experiences. This work often exists across a range of public realms.
Works
The artwork of Sheldon Brown is concerned about overlapping and reconfiguring private and public spaces; how new forms of mediation are proliferating co-existing public realms whose geographies and social organizations become ever more diverse. Art that explores schismatic junctions of these zones – the edges of their coherency - allow glimpses into their formative structures and provide a view that suggests transformative modes of being, extending constrained boundaries.Examples of this include projects such as "In the Event" at the Key arena in Seattle where nine computers choreographed multiple video streams across 28 monitors in a real time constructive engagement with the spectator's act of envisioning the events of the arena. In "The Video Wind Chimes" - an outdoor video installation/street lighting project – the section of the electromagnetic spectrum used for television broadcast was transformed into the passive illumination of a nocturnal lighting system, articulated by the wind. Projects such as "Smoke and Mirrors" and "Mi Casa es tu Casa", use the contextual apparatus of museums with adjacent mission scopes to the artworld, for bringing avant-garde strategies to engage ranges of social issues to venues that often use more pedantic forms of discourse.
His later projects include "The Scalable City", with exhibitions at Ars Electronica, Shanghai MOCA, India International Center in New Delhi, SIGGRAPH 2007 and the National Academy of Sciences. And a series of sculptures, Istoria, which explore the intersection of the virtual and physical worlds, created with a variety of computer controlled processes, and several interactive environments that utilize a cross-fertilization of virtual reality and game technologies.
Media and talks
Scalable City was recently featured on the Souvenirs from Earth television show in both Germany and France. The project was also the subject of ACM publications including Accelerating the Scalable City . Brown has given talks around the world including at TEDxDelMarGame Theorist Noah-Wardrip Fruin wrote of Brown's Scalable City project that it "may not seem like gameplay at all" and provides the player little structure or agency, but still creates a pleasurable experience of destruction, therefore still asking an important question about people's relationships to their environment.