Jeffrey Shaw's Pioneering Journey Through New Media Art
Jeffrey Shaw, an Australian-born artist, has traversed the key milestones of new media art history. Starting as an architect in Australia, then a sculptor in Milan studying at the Accademia di Brera and creating large transparent inflated plastic volumes, Shaw later made cinema a recurring theme linked to digital explorations. His works often feature immersive environments with projection domes and spatialized sound, drawing on cinema as the historical precursor to digital multimedia. Notable projects include Legible City, which treats architectural space as literary space, and Web of Life, a participatory web piece that combines hand scanning, historical machine videos, and new communication forms. Shaw's 360-degree research earned him recognition at Ars Electronica in the I Visionari series, dedicated to digital experimenters. He has also been active in the East, with projects in India and China. The article, written by Lorenzo Taiuti, appears in Artribune Magazine #36.
Key facts
- Jeffrey Shaw is an Australian-born new media artist.
- He began as an architect in Australia, then a sculptor in Milan at Accademia di Brera.
- His early works included large transparent inflated plastic volumes.
- Cinema is a recurring theme linked to digital media in his work.
- His works often use immersive projection domes with image and sound.
- Legible City treats architectural space as literary space.
- Web of Life is a participatory web work combining hand scanning, historical videos, and new communication forms.
- Shaw was recognized at Ars Electronica in the I Visionari series.
Entities
Artists
- Jeffrey Shaw
- Lev Manovich
- Lorenzo Taiuti
Institutions
- Accademia di Brera
- Ars Electronica
- Artribune Magazine
Locations
- Australia
- Milan
- Italy
- India
- China