Brett Stalbaum is full time lecturer (with equivalent to tenure) in the Department of Visual Arts at the University of California, San Diego, where he coordinates the Interdisciplinary Computing in the Arts Major. He teaches the history of computing in the arts and computer programming as a primary medium of artistic expression. He is among the founding members of the Electronic Disturbance Theater (1997-) with Ricardo Dominguez, as well his collaborations with the Art/IT/Theory group C5 corporation (1997-2009), Paintersflat.net (2003-2007) and walkingtools.net (2007-). His work in these collaborations included software development and theory. His current research interests lie at the intersections of cognitive science, neuroscience, artificial intelligence and the archeology of walking, with a specific concern with the application of the above to the unexplored aesthetic possibilities and activist applications of both human and robotic navigation. He is a graduate of San Francisco State University (Film Studies, 1991) and the CADRE Laboratory for New Media ( SJSU, 1999.)

He wrote the Electronic_Disturbance_Theater FloodNet code for EDT in 1997 with Carmin Karasic, and the Transborder Immigrant Tool for EDT in 2007, an example of locative media. The Transborder Immigrant Tool was included in a number of art exhibitions including Here, Not There at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego and the 2010 California Biennial at the Orange County Museum of Art.

He edits a number of wiki pages on the geography of the Anza-Borrego Desert State Park where he lives.