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Sheldon Brown's artwork examines relationships between
information and space which manifests as public artworks and
installations that combine architectural settings with mediated
and computer controlled elements.
His large scale public artworks include: Smoke
and Mirrors, a virtual reality artwork at the Fleet Science
Center; Mi
Casa Es Tu Casa/My House Is Your House, a networked virtual
reality installation for the National Center for the Arts
in Mexico City and the Children's Museum of San Diego; In
the Event, at the Seattle Center Key Arena, Seattle; The
Video Wind Chimes at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts,
San Francisco; and Apparitions, a virtual reality
environment, at the University Art Gallery at UCSD.
Brown has received awards and fellowships from the National
Endowment for the Arts, The Rockefeller Foundation, the Seattle
Arts Commission, the Hellman Foundation, the Asian Cultural
Council and others. He has previously been on the faculty
of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and the Kansas
City Art Institute. He had done consulting on comprehensive approaches for New Media initiatives for entities such as: the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, PersonaLogic Inc., Praja Inc., The Wonderful World of Oz Inc., LegoLand, Decor Magic, Electronic Arts, Positive Video, and others.
Currently, he is developing a series of sculpture, Istoria,that
explore the intersection of the virtual and physical worlds,
created with a variety of computercontrolled processes.
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