Golden Nica for Jeffrey SHAW - His Oeuvre in the Archive of Digital Art
(ADA)
Since more than 15 years Jeffrey SHAW is documented by ADA with more
than 100 Artworks! In a few days he receives the Golden Nica from Ars
Electronica. We Congratulate!
Check out Jeffrey Shaw in the Archive of Digital Art
https://www.digitalartarchive.at/database/artists/general/artist/shaw.html
Jeffrey SHAW has been a pioneer and leading figure in new media art
since its emergence. In the context of the 1960’s paradigm of
installation he started with expanded cinema, performance and
participatory environments, aiming to change the traditional relation
between object and spectator from a passive examination and
contemplation to an interactive involvement and immersion. New
technologies such as the computer as well as new user interfaces allowed
Shaw a new approach to this aim and had been integrated and developed in
his art works very early. He is internationally renowned for pioneering
virtual and augmented reality, immersive visualization, navigable
cinematic systems and interactive narrative. SHAW’s works The Legible
City (1989), The Virtual Museum (1991), The Golden Calf (1994), Place-A
Users Manual (1995), conFiguring the CAVE (1997) or the Web of Life
(2002) coined the field in the 90’s and are still landmark works in New
Media Art.
SHAW was founding director of the ZKM Institute for Visual Media
Karlsruhe (1991-2002), where he conceived and ran a seminal artistic
research program that included the ArtIntAct series of digital
publications, the MultiMediale series of international media art
exhibitions, and invented new creative platforms such as the EVE
Extended Virtual Environment (1993), PLACE (1995) and the Panoramic
Navigator (1997). In 1995 he was appointed Professor of Media Art at the
State University of Design, Media and Arts (HfG), Karlsruhe, Germany. As
founding Co-Director of the Center for Interactive Cinema Research
(iCinema) at the University of New South Wales in Sydney (2003-2009) he
led a theoretical, aesthetic and technological research program in
immersive interactive post-narrative systems, which produced pioneering
artistic and research works such as Place-Hampi and T_Visionarium, the
latter shown at the Biennale of Seville in 2008. In September 2009 he
joined City University in Hong Kong as Chair Professor of Media Art and
Dean of the School of Creative Media (SCM). Professor SHAW received
numerous awards and fellowships including the prestigious Australian
Research Council Federation Fellowship, Prix Ars Electronica, L’Immagine
Elettronica, the Oribe Prize, Gifu, Japan and an IDEA Gold Medal in
2009. In 2015 SHAW is honored with the Prix Ars Electronica for
Visionary Pioneers of Media Art.
Edward SHANKEN: In SHAW's diverse work since the sixties, the audience
animates the art object, which, […], offers the viewer a transformative
experience of uncommon phenomena and alternate realities.
Oliver GRAU: Experimentation with immersive image spaces is a hallmark
of SHAW’s oeuvre, from his early work in the Expanded Cinema movement to
his Extended Virtual Environment and his installations like ‘Place Ruhr’
2000, which are utilizable in multicultural contexts. (2001)
Jury comment PRIX ARS ELECTRONICA, 2015: Jeffrey SHAW is recognized as
one of the most important pioneers of interactive art. He has powerfully
influenced the creation of virtual environments and new innovative user
interfaces. SHAW’s work spans a period of half a century and still
continues to do so.
ADA: THOUSANDS OF ARTWORKS
Since its foundation in 1999, the ARCHIVE OF DIGITAL ART (former
Database of Virtual Art) has grown to be the most important online
archive for digital art. In cooperation with established media artists,
researchers and institutions it has been documenting the rapidly
evolving world of digital art and its related fields for more than a
decade and contains today a selection of thousands of artworks at the
intersection of art, science and technology.
ARTISTS and SCHOLARS are invited to join the community and set up their
own archive pages.
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COLLABORATIVE ARCHIVING OF DIGITAL ART
The large assortment of information on Jeffrey SHAW and hundreds of
other leading artists and their artworks were carried out by the artists
themselves in assistance with members of the ADA community. The new ADA
web tool allows members to archive artist statements, works
descriptions, literature, information on exhibitions, high resolution
images, blueprints, videos etc. Artists and scholars are invited to
contribute actively to the archive and to work collaboratively on the
documentation and analysis of digital art.
EXPANDED DOCUMENTATION FOR THE NEEDS OF DIGITAL ART
Due to the processual, ephemeral, interactive, technology-based and
fundamentally context-dependent character of digital art, it is at risk
for becoming extinct without an adequate
