It’s
a variation of the man who came
to dinner and stayed. Professor Sheldon Brown’s Scalable
City generated so much excitement when it was featured
at the Ars Electronica Festival, in Linz, Austria, in July 2005
that
the internationally known Ars Electronica Museum kept it on display
for a full year.
With Scalable City, Brown and his
team of designers and engineers, created a set of projects exploring
algorithmic approaches to urban
design. The installation involves animation, immersion, interactivity
and visualization
to explore a dynamic landscape. “The goal of this project is
to get people to move into a more self-aware way of
participating in the environment,” says Brown.
The techniques they developed show
how work previously requiring dozens of specialists can be achieved
by
a small group with an advanced understanding of the creative process.
Brown, a USCD visual arts professor,
is also director of the Center for Research in Computing and the
Arts
(CRCA) and head of New Media Arts for the California Institute
of Telecommunications and Information Technologies (Calit2) at
UCSD.
Contributors to Making Waves: Mario Aguilera, '89, Marnette Federis, '06, Beverly Gallagher, '98, Raymond Hardie and Inga Kiderra. |
