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Jeffrey Shaw
http://www.jeffrey-shaw.net
http://www.icinema.unsw.edu.au
In 1995 Shaw was appointed Professor of Media Art at the Staatlichen Hochschule für Gestaltung, Karlsruhe. In 2003 he was awarded a Australian Research Council Federation Fellowship and returned to Australia to direct the iCinema Centre for Interactive Cinema Research at the University of New South Wales in Sydney.
He has been a leading figure in new media art since its emergence from the performance, expanded cinema and installation paradigms of the 1960s to its present day technology-informed and virtualized forms. In a prolific oeuvre of widely exhibited and critically acclaimed work he has pioneered and set benchmarks for the creative use of digital media technologies in the fields of virtual and augmented reality, immersive visualization environments, navigable cinematic systems and interactive narrative.
He was co-founder of the Eventstructure Research Group in Amsterdam (1969-1979), and founding director of the ZKM Institute for Visual Media Karlsruhe (1991-2002). At the ZKM he conceived and ran a seminal artistic research program that included the ArtIntAct series of digital publications, the MultiMediale series of international media art exhibitions, over one hundred artist-in-residence projects, and the invention of new creative platforms such as the Extended Virtual Environment (1993) PLACE (1995) and the Panoramic Navigator (1997).
Shaw’s landmark art works include The Legible City (1989), The Virtual Museum (1991), The Golden Calf (1994), Place-A Users Manual (1995), conFiguring the CAVE (1997) and the Web of Life (2002).
He co-curated the seminal FUTURE CINEMA exhibition at the ZKM Karlsruhe, the catalogue of which was published by MIT Press.
In iCinema he leads a theoretical, aesthetic and technological research program in immersive interactive post-narrative systems, and continues his illustrious career of pioneering artistic productions with works such as Cupola, Place-Hampi, AVIE, T_Visionarium and UnMakeableLove.
