Brett Stalbaum

Brett Stalbaum, a C5 research theorist, specializes in network aesthetics, algorithm development, and critical theory. Stalbaum is a teaching associate and graduate student at the CADRE Institute, San Jose State University. As a network artist, he has developed a number of network-based conceptual projects, including the "Joint Tactical Disinformation Distribution System" and "net.art Sketch" (a geographical scale drawing tool); he also has collaborated as the Java programmer for the Electronic Disturbance Theater. He has written numerous critical essays on net.art for Switch, CADRE's on-line magazine, and is contributing to a book by the Electronic Disturbance Theater to be published by Autonomedia in 1999. Currently, he is researching the problems and potential of using autopoietic computing models in fine art.