Place: Buchanan 1940
Abstract:
Sheldon Brown will discuss the concepts, aesthetics and development
methods of his current project "The Scalable City" - real-time,
multi-user, 3D computer graphic environment, which extends contemporary
computer game methods. With this work as an example, Brown will describe
the ways in which the nature of the artwork and of art practice are
transformed via the undertaking of extensive software development as the
primary artistic methodology.
The "Scalable City" has been exhibited in various versions around the
world in the past two years, from pre-visualization alpha versions to
multi-screen, multi-user game environments. Works have been shown in
places such as the Shanghai Museum of Contemporary Art, Ars Electronica
Museum, The Kitchen in NYC, the National Center for the Arts in Mexico
City, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco, and many others.
He has received grants, awards and commissions from numerous
foundations, corporations, and national agencies in the US, Japan,
China, Mexico and Europe.
The project is developed by Brown's Experimental Game Lab at UCSD and is
supported by grants from IBM, Intel, Sun, Vicon and others. The UC
Discovery Grant is with IBM: Cell Processing Methods for Resolving
Computational Constraints in Real-time Graphic Environments, IBM Corp.
SHELDON BROWN is professor of Art at UCSD, taking over the senior
position as head of Digital Media developed by Harold Cohen. During his
tenure, student enrollment increased from a few to over 500 undergrads
through the ICAM (Arts-Music-Computing) program:
http://digitalarts.ucsd.edu/icam/default.htm
He is director of the internationally known Center for Research in
Computing and the Arts (CRCA http://www-crca.ucsd.edu/). He has been the
co-leader in the arts for the Cal IT(2) sector at UCSD, and has been
nominated as the first Artist-in-Residence in the CalIT(2) -
http://www.calit2.net/newsroom/release.php?id=832. His personal website
documenting his work can be seen at: http://www.sheldon-brown.net/
Host: Prof. George Legrady, Media Arts and Technology