Jeffrey Shaw has been a leading figure in new media art since its emergence from the performance, expanded cinema and installation paradigms of the 1960’s. In a prolific career of widely exhibited and critically acclaimed work, he has pioneered the creative use of digital media technologies in the fields of virtual and augmented reality, immersive visualization environments, navigable cinematic systems and interactive narrative. Prof. Shaw was the founding director of the ZKM Institute for Visual Media Karlsruhe, Germany (1991-2002), and co-founding director of the University of New South Wales Australia iCinema Centre for Interactive Cinema Research (2003-2009). He was Dean of the School of Creative Media at City University of Hong Kong (2009-2016) and the Director of the Centre for Applied Computing and Interactive Media at CityU (2016-2021). Currently Prof. Shaw is the Chair Professor at the Academy of Visual Art, Hong Kong Baptist University and Founding Director of the HKBU Visualization Research Centre. His numerous awards and honours include the ACM SIGGRAPH Distinguished Artist Award for Lifetime Achievement in Digital Art.
