Sheldon Brown is an artist and computer science researcher working in new forms of culture that arise out of the developments of computing technology. He is a Co-PI of Calit2 (California Institute of Information Technologies and Telecommunications) where he founded the New Media Arts layer and is currently the Artist-in-Residence at Calit2. Sheldon is also the founding director of the new Center for Next Generation Digital Media and The Experimental Game Lab

His artwork emerges from computer science and cultural research. His projects extend and intersect the fields of computer gaming and scientific visualization.  Areas such as multicore computing and computer cloud systems design provide the technological frameworks to support new types of experiences arising from the emergence of multi-user virtual worlds and increasingly complex computer gaming environments

His large scale virtual reality artworks have been exhibited around the world, including Shanghai, San Francisco, Ars Electronica and New York