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Professor Jeffrey Shaw
Professor Jeffrey Shaw is regarded as one of the key international
researchers in the field of interactive digital cinema. Professor
Shaw is a foundation Professor for Media Art at the University
of Art and Media Karlsruhe, the foundation Director for the
Research Institute for Visual Media at ZKM, Centre for Art and
Media Karlsruhe, and former ARC Federation Fellow. Under his direction
the Research Institute for Visual Media has become, alongside the
MIT Lab, USA, the GMD, National Research Centre for Information
Technology, Germany and KTH, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden,
one of the world's premier research institutes in the field of
interactive digital cinema. In both roles Pofessor Shaw has initiated
and supervised some of the most important international research
projects in interactive narrative forms including: the European
Union's eRENA,
1998, and eSCAPE, 1999,
projects and the Skoda/Volkswagon Pavilion, 2000. In addition he
has commissioned a number of ground breaking research projects
in the field for example, The Tree of Knowledge, 1998,
by Bill Viola (the world's leading video art researcher) and Sonomorphosis
by Bernd Lintermann.
Current Research Projects:
T-Visionarium (with Dr Dennis Del Favero, Professor Neil
Brown, and Professor Peter Weibel). This project is an extended
virtual environment which delivers spatialization of an algorithmically
organised database of forty global satellite television stations. Funded
by the ARC, a prototype was exhibited at European Cultural Capital
Lille, Euralille, Lille during 2004.
240 x 360 Degree Digital Video Camera for Interactive Immersive
Visualization Research Applications. This project sees the
development of the world's first panoramic 360 degree video camera
recording directly to hard disk. Funded by the ARC.
Advanced Visualisation and Interaction facility, Scientia facility,
UNSW (with Dr Dennis Del Favero) This project sees the development
of the world's first 360 degree panoramic stereoscopic projection
environment, providing a visually seamless interrelationship of
real and virtual space, shared by both machine agents and humans,
deploying a multi-viewpoint stereoscopic projection over the entire
circumference of a cylindrical screen twelve metres in diameter
and four metres high. Funded by UNSW.
Current Research Publications:
Brown, N., Del Favero, D., Shaw, J., Weibel, P. (2003) "Interactive
Narrative as a Multi-Temporal Agency", Future Cinema: The cinematic
imaginary after film, Ed. Jeffrey Shaw and Peter Weibel. MIT
Press, Massachusetts.
Current Research Grants:
ARC Discovery Grant, Australian Research Council, The Reformulation
of Narrative in Digital Cinema through Integration of Three Models
of Interactivity, 2002-2004.
ARC Discovery Grant, Australian Research Council, Interactive
Narrative as a Form of Recombinatory Search in Cinematic Transcription
of Televisual Information, 2003-2005.
ARC Project Linkage Grant, Australian Research Council, Reformulating
museological narrative using three models of cinematic interactivity,
2004-2005.
ARC Federation Fellowship, Australian Research Council, Navigable
cinematic systems. The reformulation of cinematic narrative
and the development of next generation interactive technology in
new media, 2003-2007.
ARC Research Network Seed Funding, Interactive Digital Media
Matrix. 2004.
ARC Linkage Infrastructure Grant, Australian Research Council, 240
x 360 Degree Digital Video Camera for Interactive Immersive Visualization
Research Applications, 2004.
Further details: www.jeffrey-shaw.net
Research Expertise
Professor Shaw is currently Director
of the iCinema Centre for Interactive Cinema Research at UNSW.
His research has set benchmarks for the use of digital media technologies
particularly in developing the multi-modal agency of interactive
narrative in the fields of: Navigable Cinematic Systems; Virtual
Reality and Augmented Reality; Immersive Visualisation Environments;
Interactive and Intelligent Interface Design; Algorithmic and
Reactive Software. His experimental research to date has focused
on the demonstration of the participant's ability to influence
events in a cinematic narrative by variations in patterns of spatial
navigation. This has been undertaken in demonstrators such as ReconFIGURING the
CAVE (2001) and Eavesdrop (2004). The former delivers
animation of real-time agent formations, articulated to their interaction
with participants, by means of algorithmically defined behavioural
matrices which locate the agents within the stereographical environment.
The latter delivers the navigation of complex video narratives by
the participant's engagement with the interactive environment.
Professor Shaw has provided world leadership in the field through
his founding Directorship of the ZKM Institute for Visual Media,
the largest institution of its kind dedicated to the research, production,
and presentation of creative work in the domain of immersive digital
interactivity. Shaw's research outcomes range across technological
and creative innovation. These include: a history of milestone software
and hardware design, such as the patented interactive orientation device
The Panoramic Navigator (International Patent
PCT/EP99/08078); the curation of cutting-edge international research
projects utilising interactive narrative forms such as the European
Union's IST long-term research projects eRENA (1998), and
eSCAPE (1999) (with Professors Benford and Sunblad), the
ArtIntAct and ZKM Digital Arts series, and Future
Cinema: the Cinematic Imaginary After Film, the most comprehensive
survey exhibition (ZKM) and book publication (MIT Press) to date
of international interactive cinema research; and research and development
of advanced distribution multi-user interactive artistic demonstrators
such as Web of Life (2003) commissioned by the Aventis
Corporation.
Qualifications
Postgraduate Diploma (Visual Arts) St Martin's School of Art, United
Kingdom, 1966
Current Appointment
Director, iCinema Centre for Interactive Cinema Research, The University
of New South Wales, 2003. ARC Federation Fellow, appointed 2003
Employment History
2001-2002 Adjunct Professor and Co-Director, Centre for Interactive
Cinema Research, The University of New South Wales
1992-2002 Foundation Director and Professor, Institute for Visual
Media, the ZKM, Centre for Art and Media Karlsruhe
1992-2002 Professor, HfG, University of Design, Karlsruhe
Publications
Significant Publications (1999-2004)
Exhibitions, New Media and Interactive Cinema Projects
1. Place-Ruhr 2000. Vision Ruhr. Industrial Museum, WIM,
Dortmund, Germany.
2. Reconfiguring the Cave 2001. Vision and Reality. Louisiana
Museum for Modern Art, Humlebaeck, Denmark.
3. The Web of Life 2002. Multimedia Art Asia Pacific Festival.
Art Museum of China Millenium Monument, Beijing, China.
4. Cupola 2003. Cultural Capital of Europe 2004. Eurolille,
Lille, France,
5. Eavesdrop 2004. Brisbane Festival. The Block, QUT, Brisbane,
Australia; Melbourne Festival, ACMI, Melbourne, Australia.
Exhibition and Book
6. Future Cinema 2003. ZKM Centre for Art and Media, Karlsruhe,
Germany; InterCommunication Centre, Tokyo, Japan; KIASMA, Helsinki,
Finland.
Shaw, J. Ed. Future Cinema. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2003.
Career-best Publications
Exhibitions, New Media and Interactive Cinema Projects
1. The Legible City 1989. ARTEC 8. World Design Expo, Nagoya,
Japan.
2. The Virtual Museum 1991. Ars Electronica. Lendesmuseum,
Linz, Austria.
3. EVE (Extended Virtual Environment) 1993. MultiMedial
4. ZKM Centre for Art and Media, Karlsruhe, Germany.
4. PLACE- A Users Manual 1995. Trigon-Personale
95. Neue Galerie, Graz, Austria.
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