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Prof. Jeffrey Shaw

PGDip St. Martins School of the Arts


Position:
Co-Director; iCinema Centre

School/Department:
School of Media Arts

Contact Details:
Room: F102
Phone: +61 2 93850801
Fax: +61 2 93850808
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Jeffrey Shaw is regarded as one of the key international researchers in the field of interactive cinema. He is a foundation Professor for Media Art at the University of Art and Media, Karlsruhe and the foundation Director for the Research Institute for Visual Media at ZKM, Centre for Art and Media, Karlsruhe. Jeffrey has initiated and supervised some of the most important international research projects in interactive narrative forms including: the European Union’s eRENA, 1998, eSCAPE, 1999, the Skoda/Volkswagen Pavilion 2000 as well as commissioning a number of ground breaking research projects in the field such as Bill Viola’s Tree of Knowledge, 1998 and Sonomorphosis by Bernd Lintermann. Jeffrey is currently engaged in iCinema research that involves the hybridisation of photography, video and computer generated data conjoining factual and fictional constructs that focus on interactive narrative and the future of the non-linear cinematic experience.