Jeffrey Shaw

Jeffrey Shaw (born 1944) is a pioneering new media artist and researcher. From 1965 to 2002 he lived in Milan, London, Amsterdam and Karlsruhe, and returned to Australia in 2003 to assume the Directorship of the iCinema Research Centre at the University of New South Wales. Starting from September 2009, Shaw is the Dean of School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong.

Shaw has been a leading figure in new media art since its emergence from the performance, expanded cinema and installation paradigms of the 1960s. He is internationally renowned for pioneering the creative use of digital media in the fields of virtual and augmented reality, immersive visualisation, navigable cinematic systems and interactive narrative. His work includes performance, sculpture, video and many interactive installations.

Shaw was born in 1944 in Melbourne and studied at the University of Melbourne, sculpture at Brera Academy, Milan and St. Martins School, London.

He was the co-founder the Artist Placement Group in London (1966–1989), of the Eventstructure Research Group in Amsterdam (1969–1979), and founding director (1991–2003) of the Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe (ZKM) in Karlsruhe.

In 1976, he designed the inflatable pig, flown over Battersea Power Station, and used by Pink Floyd on the cover of their Animals album and subsequent tour. At the ZKM, he initiated and led a seminal artistic research, production and exhibition program that included residencies and the creation of new works by many of the most notable media artists of our time. In 1995, Shaw was appointed Professor of Media Art at the Staatlichen Hochschule für Gestaltung, Karlsruhe.

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