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    Scalable City
In progress towards the development of a multi-user game environment. Available now - prints, videos and installation versions!.
    Center for Hybrid Multicore Productivity Research
NSF sponsored Center for Hybrid Multicore Productivity Research - CHMPR - with a focus on Next Generation Digital Media.
    Experimental Game Lab
Somewhere between media art, scientific visualization and computer gaming a new territory of expression is emerging.
    Istoria
Sculptures created from a variety of algorithmic processes.
    Smoke and Mirrors
Multi-user, shared virtual environment exploring the cultural dimensions of a lingering social dilemma.
    Mi Casa Es Tu Casa
Bi-national, shared, virtual reality installation.
    Video Wind Chimes
Devices which reveal the ongoing negotiation between the cultural and the natural.
    In The Event
The viewer becomes the apparatus for the final articulation of media event space.
    Metastasis
The ongoing substitution of mediated realities for physical reality is accelerated by this opto-mechanical whirlwind.
Sheldon Brown
Sheldon Brown
+ Urban Research in Berlin, Scalable City screening [link] posted on: 2012-02-07 08:19:15
+ Long lapse in posting activities. Sorry, been busy [link] posted on: 2012-02-07 08:18:24
+ On TV in France and Germany - Scalable City in Souvenirs from Earth [link] posted on: 2011-04-04 15:03:08
+ Featured Presentation at Mexico Moving Forward posted on: 2011-03-30 15:31:39
+ 50th anniversary Innovation Expo Features Work of Sheldon Brown posted on: 2011-03-30 15:31:16
+ Scalable City exhibition at CSUS Gallery [link] posted on: 2011-03-30 15:30:27
+ Scalable City shown in Ukraine Video Art in Global Context [link] posted on: 2011-03-30 14:59:33
+ Scalable City shown at CAA 2012 video exhibition [link] posted on: 2011-03-30 14:58:27
+ NSF/NEA activities continue with forum at EMPAC. I gave one of the keynote talks. [link] posted on: 2011-03-30 14:56:32
+ Been Busy, but have not been updating this list. Will try and catch up posted on: 2011-03-30 14:54:54
+ Intel Labs show on Art and Technology. Scalable City is about 5 minutes to the end. [link] posted on: 2011-01-04 15:00:40
+ Another announcement of Scalable City 3D movie. [link] posted on: 2010-09-28 13:46:41
+ Virtual World overview discussing Second Life and Scalable City [link] posted on: 2010-09-28 13:46:11
+ Scalable City wins first prize in Sony 3D movie competition [link] posted on: 2010-09-27 14:30:28
+ Sheldon speaks on the Varieties of Virtual World Experience via Multicore Computing at the Frontiers of Multicore Computing workshop at UMBC [link] posted on: 2010-09-27 14:26:07
+ Forgot to post - Sheldon hosted the Canadian-California Strategic Innovation Plan on Immersive Digital Media Environments last Spring. Next steps are in the works. posted on: 2010-09-27 14:24:32
+ Sheldon flies to the real Copenhagen to discuss future of virtual worlds. posted on: 2010-09-27 14:22:33
+ Sheldon is at the NEA/NSF summit meeting, helping humanity with art and technology. [link] posted on: 2010-09-27 14:21:30
+ 3D Scalable City Movie plays in Korea posted on: 2010-09-27 14:16:46
+ Featured artist in San Diego Art Fair and panel conversation with Lucia. posted on: 2010-09-27 14:15:05
+ Article on Here not There [link] posted on: 2010-08-04 12:55:14
+ Video for Here not There " target="_blank">[link] posted on: 2010-08-04 12:54:32
+ LA Times Review of Here not There [link] posted on: 2010-07-19 12:19:15
+ Here not there intro [link] posted on: 2010-06-03 14:41:17
+ Referring to the MCASD show [link] posted on: 2010-06-03 14:40:16
+ Sheldon at TED [link] posted on: 2010-06-03 14:39:21
+ Art Speculation Innovation - Sheldon Brown at UCOP [link] posted on: 2010-05-22 21:29:45
+ Galileo event video - you can scrub a low res video of the Galileo event. [link] posted on: 2010-05-13 11:08:04
+ Galileo Between Science, Science Studies and Science Fiction - Sheldon Brown creates 4K cinema with historical and current images of Jupiters moons to frame conversation with Kim Stanley Robinson, Mario Biagioli and Brian Keating [link] posted on: 2010-05-13 10:27:08
+ Suspending Belief - presented at CENIC 2010 [link] posted on: 2010-03-10 11:58:01
+ Experimental Game Lab demonstrations at the Macarthur Foundation Digital Media Learning Conference [link] posted on: 2010-03-10 11:54:59
+ Sheldon Brown co-chairs C5 conference on [link] posted on: 2010-03-10 11:52:31
+ Scalable City 3D Movie is shown at CES [link] posted on: 2010-03-10 11:49:42
+ FILE 4K Adventure is discussed at CineGrid 09 [link] posted on: 2010-03-10 11:47:28
+ Art In Virtual Reality - 3D interactive Scalable City [link] posted on: 2010-03-10 11:46:35
+ 3D film festival in Belgium Features Scalable City 3D trailer [link] posted on: 2010-03-10 11:46:01
+ Supercomputing 2009 opens with a Scalable City Bang! [link] posted on: 2009-11-17 16:45:54
+ Sheldon on Intel Radio - Parallelism in the Artist Studio [link] posted on: 2009-11-03 13:27:29
+ Article on our use of Cell Processing for computing assets in the Scalable City [link] posted on: 2009-10-26 11:21:44
+ NSF awards Center for Hybrid Multicore Productivity Research. Sheldon Brown is UCSD Site Director. [link] posted on: 2009-09-18 11:35:52
+ 4K Cinema streaming from Brazil to Japan and the US, along with teleconference. [link] posted on: 2009-09-18 11:32:31
+ Scalable City latest version is shown in Sao Paulo [link] posted on: 2009-09-18 11:28:38
+ Scalable City video is being shown as a part of "Civic Statues Unfrozen for One Hour: Clothed Women and Unarmed Men" At eighteen-thirty (1830 Sunset Blvd.) LA Sunday, 19 July 2009 - 9pm Doors open 8:30pm posted on: 2009-07-17 13:36:20
+ Sheldon speaks about Making Better Virtual Worlds at Stanford posted on: 2009-07-17 13:35:34
+ Sheldon is speaking in London at Goldsmiths posted on: 2009-07-17 13:34:42
+ Stereo Scalable City movie at FACT in Liverpool posted on: 2009-07-17 11:54:30
+ Video of Scalable City from Rio [link] posted on: 2009-04-21 08:43:58
+ If you can not be in Tokyo, then get over to Paris to see the Scalable City at the Festival Nemo [link] posted on: 2009-03-28 09:19:57
+ Scalable City New Trailer is playing in 4K in Tokyo this weekend [link] posted on: 2009-03-27 08:53:29
+ UC San Diego and IBM Launch Center for Next Generation Digital Media to power new Virtual Worlds [link] posted on: 2009-03-17 11:14:19
+ Rio de Janeiro is the latest stop for the Scalable City Stop by the OI Futuro museum between March 10 and April 19 [link] posted on: 2009-03-07 11:20:50
+ See the Scalable City New Trailer at a CAA related screen in LA. The lobby of Westin Bonaventure Hotel in downtown Los Angeles, Feb 25-26 6-10 pm [link] posted on: 2009-02-28 16:52:36
+ Scalable City 3D movie is show at SPIE SD&A 2009 conference [link] posted on: 2009-01-29 14:04:22
+ Back to UMBC to present research projects for the fledgling Center for Hybrid Multicore Computing [link] posted on: 2009-01-29 13:58:03
+ Beall Center for Art and Technology hosts the latest Scalable City. [link] posted on: 2009-01-11 19:14:04
+ Cinema and Gaming convergences at the Visual Computing Workshop. posted on: 2008-12-13 10:41:31
+ 3D 4K Scalable City Movie Premiers at Cinegrid. Put on your glasses! [link] posted on: 2008-12-13 10:39:25
+ Sheldon Brown, Geoff Ryman and Kim Stanley Robinson throw caution to the wind generated by the Scalable City and mash-up art and literature [link] posted on: 2008-12-03 09:17:30
+ Geoff Ryman joins Sheldon Brown on KPBS [link] posted on: 2008-12-03 09:13:40
+ Culture Lust on the Scalable City [link] posted on: 2008-12-03 09:12:36
+ Review of Scalable City show in the San Diego Union Tribune [link] posted on: 2008-11-20 10:55:48
+ Scalable City is now being featured at Supercomputing 2009 with a brief video. [link] posted on: 2008-11-20 10:52:39
+ The Scalable City New Trailer is being shown this weekend in Nuremberg Germany. [link] posted on: 2008-11-09 09:09:41
+ Another day, another Scalable City Opening! Barnsdall Gallery in LA. [link] posted on: 2008-11-09 09:02:45
+ Celebrate election day at the Krannart Art Museum and watch the Scalable City movie. [link] posted on: 2008-11-04 10:41:13
+ In Montreal meeting with colleagues across Canada and UC about collaborative research program [link] posted on: 2008-10-27 19:13:38
+ The gallery at calit2 becomes the stop for the latest version of Scalable City with the premiere of objects fabricated from the gameplay data [link] posted on: 2008-10-23 16:44:53
+ LA Times listing for Freewaves [link] posted on: 2008-10-12 09:22:58
+ KCET in LA is featuring the Scalable City trailer. One of the comments is that it would be better as a video game. Good Idea! [link] posted on: 2008-10-11 11:27:02
+ The Experimental Prototype City of Tomorrow will be a future home for Scalable City. Meetings these last few days are developing details. [link] posted on: 2008-10-08 17:13:59
+ This is a test [link] posted on: 2008-09-27 08:47:15
+ If you are in Oakland - Check out the "Great Wall of Oakland" for a public art screening of Scalable City [link] posted on: 2008-09-06 19:56:48
+ Featured in a documentary made by Korean Broadcasting, Seeking for the Creativity. First broadcast on KBS on Aug. 20, 24 and 27. [link] posted on: 2008-08-29 12:45:03
+ Giving a talk at UMBC Frontiers of Multicore Computing [link] posted on: 2008-08-22 15:22:42
+ Scalable City Trailer at the Nelson Atkins Museum of Art [link] posted on: 2008-08-22 15:12:34
+ New Video from FILE [link] posted on: 2008-08-19 10:06:30
+ http://msn.onne.com.br/conteudo/5002/milh-es-de-pixels http://agendacult.wordpress.com/2008/07/31/file-symposium/ http://oglobo.globo.com/cultura/mat/2008/08/04/grafite_eletronico_cinema_digital_sao_destaques_da_file_2008-547571629.asp http://www.sesisp.org.br/home/2006/centrocultural/Prog_expo.asp http://superbacana-djs.blogspot.com/2008/08/grafite-eletrnico-e-cinema-digital-so.html posted on: 2008-08-06 19:34:25
+ Video of FILE Exhibit. If your Portuguese is not up to snuff, they introduce by describing the making of a new "Metropolis". [link] posted on: 2008-08-06 06:46:19
+ FILE in Sao Paulo Brazil has a multi-modal Scalable City experience: An installation of the interactive Scalable City; 4K Scalable City Screening; catalog essay, and 2 presentations. [link] posted on: 2008-08-05 11:59:53
+ Delivers keynote talk at 2008 Olympic Digital Arts Summit Forum in Shanghai [link] posted on: 2008-07-31 08:58:35
+ Another Korean radio interview [link] posted on: 2008-06-18 08:17:54
+ Sheldon gives another talk at Intel and learns wonderful new things about the future [link] posted on: 2008-06-10 20:55:11
+ All hands at Calit2 - Sheldon announces Speculative Culture initiative [link] posted on: 2008-06-10 20:51:40
+ see some Scalable City objects here [link] posted on: 2008-05-31 12:11:47
+ Sheldon and Bruce Sterling "Looking Further" at the Future in Review [link] posted on: 2008-05-23 10:25:21
+ Catch Sheldon on Korean Radio [link] posted on: 2008-05-21 14:04:41
+ Zhong Chen, Dean of School of Software at Peking University, and IBM are at CRCA to kick off our collaborative project. [link] posted on: 2008-05-15 07:49:57
+ Sheldon gives a seminar at Intel [link] posted on: 2008-05-15 07:47:22
+ Couple of recent blogs on Scalable City http://npirl.blogspot.com/ and http://blog.ucsd.edu/clarion/2008/05/07/movement-in-virtual-reality-spaces/ [link] posted on: 2008-05-07 13:38:46
+ Scalable City exhibition at the Exploratorium is extended through June [link] posted on: 2008-04-07 20:46:54
+ Talk on China and the Enviornment at UC Berkeley [link] posted on: 2007-12-06 06:44:19
+ Cinegrid workship panel on Art and new cinema [link] posted on: 2007-12-05 13:16:12
+ Keeping track of Sheldon at UC Press and then Washington DC - details to follow [link] posted on: 2007-12-01 11:02:46
+ UC- CHINA 10+ 10 with Digital Media and Arts is discussed at UCOP posted on: 2007-11-12 11:33:08
+ Supercomputing 07 is the latest stop for Scalable City - Featured in the IBM Booth [link] posted on: 2007-11-12 11:31:11
+ Sheldon lectures at UC Santa Barbara [link] posted on: 2007-11-03 17:08:02
+ some blogs on Scalable City [link] posted on: 2007-10-16 07:19:46
+ Scalable City opens at The Exploratorium [link] posted on: 2007-09-11 15:56:04
+ Scalable City at the INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF NEW FILM IN SPLIT, CROATIA [link] posted on: 2007-09-06 11:22:16
+ Siggraph Catalog - Scalable City [link] posted on: 2007-09-03 06:38:43
+ YouTube Siggraph Scalable City [link] posted on: 2007-09-03 06:38:13
+ Sheldon speaks to the Clarion Science Fiction workshop [link] posted on: 2007-08-22 07:31:06
+ Scalable City - 4K cinema premiered at Calit2 for SIGGRAPH [link] posted on: 2007-08-17 08:05:14
+ Local Concerns - Global Art: Panel chaired by Sheldon Brown [link] posted on: 2007-08-17 08:04:18
+ Scalable City is at the SIGGRAPH Art Gallery [link] posted on: 2007-08-17 08:02:17
+ Sheldon is discussing the future of scholarship via the affordances of the digital. [link] posted on: 2007-07-09 19:27:32
+ Sheldon is Lecturing at 7 univerisities in China [link] posted on: 2007-06-15 13:54:57
+ Scalable City Opens at National Academy of Science [link] posted on: 2007-06-04 10:49:41
+ National Academy of Sciences exhibits works from the Scalable City by Sheldon Brown [link] posted on: 2007-05-28 18:25:47
+ Experimental GameLab and CRCA host IBM Cell Processor Workshop [link] posted on: 2007-05-25 10:46:19
+ Lectures at TAMU [link] posted on: 2007-05-15 08:13:25
+ Sheldon Brown presents the work of the Experimental Game Lab to the University of California Advisory Board [link] posted on: 2007-05-15 08:12:47
+ Scalable City 4K Movie Preview is show at: CES 2007 [link] posted on: 2007-04-19 20:47:27
+ Scalable City 4K Movie Preview is shown at: CEATEC Japan 2007 Japan [link] posted on: 2007-04-19 20:46:24
+ Scalable City 4K Movie Previes is shown at: Inter BEE2007 [link] posted on: 2007-04-19 20:45:35
+ Scalable City 4K movie preview is shown at: FPD International 2007 Japan [link] posted on: 2007-04-19 20:44:40
+ Scalable City 4K movie preview is shown at: SID International Symposium, Seminar and Exhibition [link] posted on: 2007-04-19 20:43:33
+ Experimental Game Lab shows The Scalable City at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco [link] posted on: 2007-03-08 14:47:07
+ Sheldon presents at symposium at MOCA Shanghai on Interactive Art [link] posted on: 2007-03-08 14:46:15
+ Shanghai MOCA presents Scalable City 1.6.5 [link] posted on: 2007-02-22 17:37:56
+ Scalable City 1.5 at India International Center [link] posted on: 2007-02-22 17:36:38
+ Lecture at Sarai in New Dehli [link] posted on: 2007-02-07 00:00:37
+ Scalable City 4K Cinema scenes shown on 8 Megapixel display at the Waag Society in Amsterdam. [link] posted on: 2007-01-18 15:33:16
+ IBM announces winners.... [link] posted on: 2006-12-12 08:42:53
+ At Shanghai University this week for wide ranging talks on collaboration [link] posted on: 2006-11-06 04:01:32
+ I don't really know what this is but it looks good! [link] posted on: 2006-10-20 20:12:50
+ Third Millennium Problem Solving - Sheldon and David speak at Google [link] posted on: 2006-10-18 10:05:09
+ Sheldon and David meet with Will Wright [link] posted on: 2006-10-18 10:04:04
+ Sheldon and David Brin present on visulization and crisis to the Caltech alumni [link] posted on: 2006-10-13 13:50:54
+ Sheldon presents Scalable City at Intel [link] posted on: 2006-10-13 13:48:46
+ David Brin writes on a world bereft of BASIC, for which I provide an anecdote of artistic anachronism. [link] posted on: 2006-09-15 09:49:56
+ 米テクノロジー哲学者、コンピュータの過信に警鐘 [link] posted on: 2006-09-14 19:12:10
+ مدينة كومبيوترية لتطوير العاب الفيديو وتصميم المدن [link] posted on: 2006-09-14 19:10:13
+ [사진]신도시 계획「스케일러블 시티」에 맡겨봐 [link] posted on: 2006-09-14 19:08:43
+ A quicktime VR of the Scalable City at Ars Electronica [link] posted on: 2006-09-14 19:08:11
+ another scalable blurb [link] posted on: 2006-09-14 08:34:43
+ scalable city blurb [link] posted on: 2006-09-11 12:39:57
+ physics and the scalable city... [link] posted on: 2006-09-11 12:38:34
+ Scalable City opens at the Ars Electronica Center in Linz, Austria. On exhibit for a year, a 3 screen stereo version. [link] posted on: 2006-08-29 02:08:17
+ Scalable City shown in the Calit2 Gallery [link] posted on: 2006-06-25 18:20:33
+ Panel at the Society for Art & Technology in Montreal [link] posted on: 2006-06-20 08:41:14
+ Scalable City story picked up in India [link] posted on: 2006-06-06 10:58:01
+ CNET takes a look at The Scalable City [link] posted on: 2006-06-05 16:03:59
+ Scalable City is installed in the Calit2 Gallery - Providing an art infusion to the US - India Technology Summit [link] posted on: 2006-06-03 21:08:48
+ Sheldon delivers keynote address to the annual meeting of the Institute for Software Research [link] posted on: 2006-05-17 16:52:02
+ Future in Review visits the GameLab [link] posted on: 2006-05-15 14:40:19
+ Sheldon discusses "Digital Art" on KPBS [link] posted on: 2006-05-11 11:30:11
+ Sheldon Brown named first Artist-In-Residence for Calit2. [link] posted on: 2006-05-01 11:04:06
+ Sheldon speaks on the benefits of acadmic/industry relationships for experimental art making and digital culture at the MASSIVE conference. [link] posted on: 2006-05-01 11:02:57
+ Sheldon is in London and Cambridge, giving talks and taking meetings - Goldsmiths, Cambridge and the Junction [link] posted on: 2006-04-16 13:50:39
+ Breaking the Game Symposium [link] posted on: 2006-03-12 08:27:50
+ In the future, all computers will be video game machines - Cell processor workshop at IBM [link] posted on: 2006-03-03 21:52:37
+ Sheldon speaks on panel of Art and Computer Games at UCLA [link] posted on: 2006-03-03 21:47:34
+ A Post-Digital Artistic practice, Visiting Artist at SDSU [link] posted on: 2006-03-03 21:44:17
+ Sheldon Remembers to post things here [link] posted on: 2006-03-03 21:40:45
+ Sheldon Brown speaks to the people of Poland. Check it out on Monday 10/17 from 10 a.m. - Noon. [link] posted on: 2005-10-14 11:37:23
+ The Scalable City regenerates in Warsaw at the Zacheta National Art Gallery [link] posted on: 2005-10-08 21:09:50
+ Sheldon Brown provides "A Prescription for Cultural Practice" at the Salk Institute on June 2. posted on: 2005-06-03 14:37:12
+ Scalable City video installation commissoned by Red Bull for E3 2005 [link] posted on: 2005-06-03 14:35:45
+ What is the fate of "the medium" in digital culture, and how does it effect artmaking? All is answered. [link] posted on: 2005-03-30 08:32:12
+ Criterion Software sponsors Game Lab research through donation of Renderware Graphics Game Engine. [link] posted on: 2005-02-24 16:49:06
+ Lecture at UCLA - Design | Media Arts Dept. on ArtGameCulture [link] posted on: 2005-02-09 15:21:11
+ Brown lectures at Computational Science Research Center, SDSU on Art via Games and Computing [link] posted on: 2005-02-09 15:18:35
+ NY Arts covers the Video Wind Chimes [link] posted on: 2004-12-21 12:59:13
+ Seattle combo - Microsoft Research and Windows gaming and Graphics group meetings. Also HDTV project with UW - see their research channel show on old me. [link] posted on: 2004-12-17 16:14:38
+ Another interview [link] posted on: 2004-12-13 10:19:03
+ recent interview about the Experimental Game Lab [link] posted on: 2004-12-13 10:17:40
+ Brown discusses games, culture and art on KPBS radio 12-8-2004 [link] posted on: 2004-12-07 15:38:45
+ Sammy Studio's provides key funding for the Experimental Game Lab [link] posted on: 2004-11-12 16:20:31
+ In Japan in November. Talks with EGL sponsors Sammy Corp. Presentations at IAMAS and at VSMM. posted on: 2004-11-11 17:30:52
+ Out of the Experimental Game Lab and on to the Macy Gallery of Columbia University in New York - The Scalable City 0.7a opens Sept. 29 as a part of the show "DIGITAL BOUNDARIES: Multiculturalism, Identity, and Awareness". [link] posted on: 2004-09-23 11:02:50
+ The real meaning and importance of virtual reality is revealed as Brown gives a workshop on Immersion, Innovation and Social Agency at the Interactive Institute in Sweden. posted on: 2004-08-28 09:55:59
+ In The Event makeover in the works? This week in Seattle the possiblities are being explored [link] posted on: 2004-06-25 14:48:03
+ Through the StudioLAB, art recontextualizes intellectual property [link] posted on: 2004-06-13 12:09:47
+ New website launched. Dragulescu brings dynamic re-collage to Brown's repertoire. [link] posted on: 2004-05-30 17:45:12
+ Workshop on Public/Digital Space Sheldon is conducting a workshop at The Kitchen in NYC that examines the intersection of public space and digital space for responsive art [link] posted on: 2004-05-25 20:16:20