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Jeffrey Shaw

*) Biography

Born 23 October 1944, Melbourne, Australia.

1963 Architecture at the University of Melbourne

1964 Art History at the University of Melbourne

1965 Sculpture at the Brera Academy of Art, Milan

1966 Sculpture at St Martins School of Art, London

1970-1980 Founding member of THE EVENTSTRUCTURE RESEARCH GROUP

1989 Guest professor at the Academy of Art, Rotterdam

1990 Guest professor at the Rietveld Academy, Amsterdam

since

1991 Director of the INSTITUT FÜR BILDMEDIEN, at the ZKM / ZENTRUM

FÜR KUNST UND MEDIENTECHNOLOGIE Karlsruhe.

since

1995 Professor at the HOCHSCHULE FÜR GESTALTUNG Karlsruhe

*) works by Jeffrey Shaw

He has been making interactive media events, installations and sculptures

since the mid 60s. He has been awarded the Ars Electronica Prize (Linz) and

the L'Immagine Elettronica Prize (Ferrara) among others. His works have been shown

at major museums and festivals worldwide.

Some of the selected works are:

-Viewpoint, '6.Biennale de Paris',

Paris, 1957

-The Narrative Landscape (with Dirk Groeneveld), Aorta,

Amsterdam 1985

-Going to the heart of the center of the garden of delights, Vleeshal,

Middelburg, Netherlands 1986

-Inventer la terre, La Villette,

Paris 1986

-Heavens Gate, (with Harry de Wit), 'Stipendia 85-86',

Amsterdam 1987

-The Legible City (with Dirk Groeneveld), Bonnefanten Museum,

Maastricht 1988

-Revolution, travelling exhibition through

Europe, USA, Asia, 1990

-The Virtual Museum 'Das Belebte Bild', Art Frankfurt,

Frankfurt 1991

-Disappearance, The Digital Era, Musee d'Ixelles,

Bruxelles 1992

-Place - a users manual, Neue Galerie,

Graz 1995

sources:

internet

http://www.iamas.ac.jp/prj/i95/jeffrey_e.html

http://www.kah-bonn.de/1/17/0e.htm

book

'PRISMA Art Galerie-Internationale Computerkunst' by Harald Neidhardt