Position:	Dean and Chair Professor of Media Art
E-mail:	J.SHAW@cityu.edu.hk
Bldg Rm:	AC-Y2651

Jeffrey Shaw (1944 Melbourne) 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 career of widely exhibited and critically acclaimed work he has pioneered the creative use of digital media technologies in the fields of virtual and augmented reality, immersive visualization environments, navigable cinematic systems and interactive narrative. Professor Shaw 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 EVE Extended Virtual Environment (1993) PLACE (1995) and the Panoramic Navigator (1997). In 1995 Shaw was appointed Professor of Media Art at the State University of Design, Media and Arts (HfG), Karlsruhe, Germany. Professor 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. Shaw’s career is further distinguished by his collaborations with fellow artists including Peter Gabriel, David Pledger, Agnes Hegedues, The Wooster Group, William Forsyth, Harry de Wit, Theo Botschuijer, Dennis del Favero, Peter Weibel, Bernd Lintermann, Dirk Goeneveld, Leslie Stuck, Paul Doornbusch, Jean Michel Bruyere, Saburo Teshigawara, Ulf Langheinrich and Sarah Kenderdine. Shaw has been the recipient of numerous awards including Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria, L’Immagine Elettronica, Ferrara, Italy, the Oribe Prize, Gifu, Japan and an IDEA Gold Medal in 2009. In 2003 Professor Shaw was awarded an Australian Research Council Federation Fellowship and returned to Australia to co-found and direct the iCinema Centre for Interactive Cinema Research at the University of New South Wales in Sydney. At iCinema he led a theoretical, aesthetic and technological research program in immersive interactive post-narrative systems, and continued his illustrious career of pioneering artistic productions with works such as Cupola, Place-Hampi and T_Visionarium, the latter shown at the Biennale of Seville in 2008. In September 2009 Shaw joined City University in Hong Kong as Chair Professor of Media Art and Dean of the School of Creative Media (SCM). Professor Shaw has a continuing position at UNSW as co-director of the iCinema Research Centre for the purposes of academic and research co-operation with CityU. He will establish a new SCM research facility at the Hong Kong Science Park in 2010. www.icinema.unsw.edu.au www.jeffrey-shaw.net www.zkm.de

Recent Selected Exhibitions

• Shaw, J., et al., (2009) reConfiguring the CAVE, Place-Ruhr, EVE, Panoramic Navigator, Disappearance, PRODUCED@, ZKM Karlsruhe, Germany

• Shaw, J., Kenderdine S., (2009) UNMAKEABLELOVE, The Golden Calf, Le Volcan Numerique, Espace Oscar Niemeyer, Le Havre France

• Shaw, J., Kenderdine, S., (2009) Place-Hampi. Immigration Museum, Melbourne, Australia
  

• Shaw, J., Del Favero, D., Brown, N., McGinity, M., Weibel, P., (2008) T’Visionarium, Biennal of Seville, Granada, Spain

• Shaw, J., Kenderdine S., (2008) UNMAKEABLELOVE, eARTS Festival, Shanghai, China

• Shaw, J., Kenderdine, S., (2006) Place-Hampi. Lille 3000, Opera Lille, France

• Shaw, J., Lintermann, B., (2005) Look Up Kyoto. Kyoto Saga University of the Arts, Kyoto, Japan

• Shaw, J., Pledger, D., (2004) Eavesdrop. Brisbane Festival. The Block, QUT, Brisbane, Australia; Melbourne Festival, ACMI, Melbourne, Australia

• Shaw, J., Weibel, P., (2003) Future Cinema. ZKM Centre for Art and Media, Karlsruhe, Germany; InterCommunication Centre, Tokyo, Japan; KIASMA, Helsinki, Finland

• Shaw, J., (2003) Cupola. European Cultural Capital of Europe 2004. Eurolille, Lille, France

• Shaw, J., Gleich, M., (2002) The Web of Life. Multimedia Art Asia Pacific Festival. Art Museum of China Millenium Monument, Beijing, China

• Shaw, J., Lintermann, B., Hegedus, A., (2001) reConfiguring the CAVE. Vision and Reality.Louisiana Museum for Modern Art, Humlebaeck, Denmark

• Shaw, J., (2000) Place-Ruhr. Vision Ruhr. Industrial Museum, WIM, Dortmund, Germany.

Recent Selected Books and Chapters

• Del Favero, D., Brown, N., Shaw, J., Weibel, P., (2005) “T_Visionarium, Towards a Dialogic Concept of Digital Narrative”, Disappearing Architecture: From Real to Virual to Quantum, Flachbart, G., and Weibel, P., (eds). Birkhauser, Basel,144-151

• Shaw, J., (2004). Cinemas of the Future, Richard Castelli (ed), Lille 2004 Capitale Europeenne de la Culture, 2004, (pages 50-53, 56, 57, 78, 79)

• Gleich, M., Shaw, J., (2004). The Web of Life Project: Linking Art and Science. ZKM Karlsruhe.

• Shaw, J., Weibel, P., (2003) Future Cinema. The Cinematic Imaginary after Film, MIT Press, Cambridge

• Shaw, J., (2002). "Movies after Film – The Digitally Expanded Cinema", New Screen Media. Cinema. Art, Narrative, Eds Martin Rieser and Andrea Zapp, British Film Institute, London  (pages 268-275)

• Shaw, J., (2000). "Media Art and Interactive Cinema"  Eds. A. W. Balkema and H. Slager, Lier en Boog, Amsterdam

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