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ABSTRACT
The latest version of the Scalable City project is an installation as a stereographic display in the CAVE environment. This project is a look at increasing levels of algorithmicization that characterize our actions and perceptions of the self and the world. The Scalable City - a globe of cities, initiated with data from the real world - is increasingly transformed into a more patterned world, under the spreading cultural influence of networks of roads, cyclones of automobiles and self-assembling architecture. This project utilizes a variety of media modalities as it explores the visuality of these issues. This latest incarnation, in the visually immersive CAVE environment, completes a collapse between the realm of mediation and that of a supposed reality. However, from the Scalable City project, we understand that it isn't a simple proposition to distinguish between the mediated and the real. Our worldview is a continuous negotiation between how we see, what we think and how we represent. Our current condition is one that is increasingly dominated by the affordances of the algorithm, offering powerful new methodologies for seeing, organizing and understanding. The Scalable City is both an indulgence in these qualities, as well as an extrapolation of these tendencies, to allow us to consider its
outcomes.
Created by Sheldon Brown, Director of the Experimental Game Lab at CRCA, UCSD.
Assistance of: Erik Hill, Daniel Tracy, Robert Twomey, Kristen Kho, Chris Head, Prakhar Jain, Todd Margolis, Alex Dragulescu, Mike Caloud, Carl Burton.
Support from IBM, Intel, NSF, Vicon, Intellectual Ventures, High Moon Studios.
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BIOGRAPHY
Sheldon Brown is the director of the Center for Research in Computing and Arts at the University of California in San Diego, where he teaches visual arts and is the founder of the new media arts area at the California Institute of Information Technologies and Telecommunications. His work in computer games, virtual reality, media art installation and public art is exhibited in several countries.
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