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Jeffrey Shaw
b. 1944 in Melbourne, Australia.
Studied Architecture (1963) and Art History (1964) at the University of Melbourne, and Sculpture (1965) at the Brera Academy of Art, in Milan. In 1966 did his postgraduate studies in Sculpture at St Martin's School of Art, London. Between 1970-80, founding member of The Eventstructure Research Group. In 1989, he was Guest Professor at the Academy of Art, in Rotterdam (The Netherlands), and in 1990 at the Rietveld Academy, Amsterdam. Since 1991, he has been Director of the Institute for Visual Media at the Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie (ZKM), and since 1995, Professor at the Hochschule für Gestaltung, both in Karlsruhe, Germany.
Since the late 1960's, Jeffrey Shaw has pioneered the use of interactivity and virtuality in his numerous art installations. His works have been exhibited worldwide at major museums and festivals. Probably best known is his Legible City (1989), where the spectator can bicycle in a computer-generated virtual urban landscape of words and sentences. This work received the Prix Ars Electronica in Linz, Austria, and the L`Imagine Elettronica Prize in Ferrara, Italy.
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Selected works/exhibitions
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| 1967 |
| Corpocinema, Sigma projects, Museumplein, Amsterdam |
| 1968 |
| Moviemovie, 4th International Experimental Film Festival, Knokke le Zoute, Belgium |
| 1970 |
| Cloud, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam |
| | Waterwalk, Brighton Festival, Brighton, Anglia |
| 1974 |
| Diadrama, Lantaren Theater, Rotterdam, The Netherlands |
| 1975 |
| Viewpoint: 6th Paris Biennial, Musee d`Art Moderne, Paris |
| 1980 |
| Neon Wind Sculpture, Koopwaardersplantsoen, Amsterdam |
| 1983-84 |
| Points of View, Mickery Theater, Amsterdam |
| 1985 |
| The Narrative Landscape (with Dirk Groeneveld), Amsterdam |
| 1986 |
| Inventeur la Terre, La Villette, Paris |
| 1987 |
| Heaven's Gate (with H. de Wit), Shaffy Theater, Amsterdam |
| 1988 |
| The Legible City, Bonnefanten Museum, Maastricht, The Netherlands |
| 1989 |
| The Imagery Museum of Revolutions (with Tjebbe van Tijen), Brucknerhaus, Linz, Austria
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| | Alice's Room, International Art & Science Exhibition, Kawasaki, Japan |
| 1990 |
| Revolution, Imago, KunstRai, Amsterdam |
| 1991 |
| The Virtual Museum, Das Belebte Bild, Art Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany |
| 1992 |
| Disappearance, The Binary Era, Musee d'Ixelles, Brussels |
| 1993 |
| Eve, Multimediale 3, ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany |
| 1994 |
| The Golden Calf, Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria |
| 1995 |
| Place - A Users Manual, Neue Galerie, Graz, Austria |
| 1996 |
| Configuring the Cave, NTT Intercommunication Center, Tokyo |
| 1997 |
| Aussenkennung, ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany |
| | Panoramic Navigator, ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany |
Prizes
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| 1990 |
| L'Imagine Elettronica, Ferrara, Italy |
| | Prix Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria |
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