Jeffrey Shaw
Born in Melbourne in 1944.
Jeffrey Shaw 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 works (www.jeffrey-shaw.net) 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, algorithmic software techniques, and interactive narrative.
He was co-founder of the Eventstructure Research Group in Amsterdam (1969-1979), and founding director (1991-2003) of the ZKM | Institute for Visual Media Karlsruhe, where he initiated, supervised and curated a seminal artistic research program that included the artintact series of CD/DVD-ROM publications, the European eSCAPE and eRENA projects, the MultiMediale series of exhibitions, over one hundred artist-in-residence productions, and the invention of new creative technologies such as EVE and the Panoramic/Linear Navigators. He recently co-curated the FUTURE CINEMA exhibition at the ZKM Karlsruhe, ICC Tokyo and KIASMA Helsinki, the catalogue of which has been published by MIT Press.
Jeffrey Shaw is currently the executive director of the iCinema Centre for Interactive Cinema Research at UNSW in Sydney (www.icinema.unsw.edu.au) and was awarded the prestigious Australian Research Council Federation Fellowship.