Professor 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 today’s 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 expanded cinema, virtual and augmented reality, immersive visualization environments, navigable cinematic systems and interactive narrative. Shaw’s numerous internationally exhibited and critically acclaimed artworks are milestones of technological and cultural innovation, and they are amongst the most cited in new media literature. Before joining HKBU, Prof. Shaw was the founding director of the ZKM Institute for Visual Media Karlsruhe, Germany (1991-2002), Australian Research Council Federation Fellow at UNSW Sydney from 2003 to 2008, and from 2009 to 2016 was Dean of the School of Creative Media at City University of Hong Kong. Prof. Shaw is currently also a Visiting Professor at the Digital Humanities Institute, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland, and Visiting Professor at the Chinese Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, China.

“The work of Jeffrey Shaw undoubtedly occupies a central position in the electronic media art … his works co-created, co-constructed the genre, gave it its initial contours.” (Peter Weibel, CEO, ZKM Centre for Art and Media Karlsruhe). Prof. Shaw’s research practice encompasses air structures, expanded cinema, expanded photography, performance, new media art, interactive narrative, immersive visualization, virtual reality, augmented reality, mixed reality, digital cultural heritage, experimental museology and curatorship. During his career Prof. Shaw has founded, co-founded and/or directed numerous ground-breaking research centers/labs: Artist Placement Group, London; Evenstructure Research Group, Amsterdam; Institute for Visual Media, ZKM Karlsuhe, Germany; iCinema Center for Interactive Cinema Research, UNSW, Sydney; ACIM Center for Applied Computing and Interactive Media, CityU, Hong Kong; ALiVE Applied Laboratory for Interactive Visualization and Embodiment. Prof, Shaw’s externally funded research projects include:

• Digital Archive of Early Photography of China, Moonchu Foundation (2020)
• CITY IN TIM, Hong Kong Tourism Commission (2019)
• Navigational Deep Mapping - Visualisation and Cognition of Cultural Atlases, GRF (2018)
• Hong Kong and Macao Visual Arts Biennale, LCSD (2016)
• CLIP Collaborative Learning Through Immersion, UGC (2015)
• Interactve Cinema, Australian Research Council Federation Fellowship (2011)

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