1. Jeffrey Shaw Regina Banayad Photography 11

2. Pioneering new media artist and researcher. He has been a leading figure in new media art since its emergence from the performance, expanded cinema and installation paradigms of 1960s.

3. What themes, ideas or points of view come across in his work? O Panoramic methods of representation, collage of visual and temporal events, and the articulation of various stimulated and expanded cinema situations.

4. How and why does this artist use digital media to express their point of view? O To create an immerse panoramic image for the audience O Exhibit and critically acclaim work he has pioneered the creative use of digital technologies in the fields of virtual and augmented reality, immersive visualisation environments, navigable cinematic systems and interactive narrative.

5. What is the artist’s method of producing work? O Made by rotating a camera in three positions to capture a 270-degree field of view O Computer Indigo 2 which has been commercially unavailable since 1997 O Interactive laserdisk- based, viewer has to push a protruding steel bar to rotate a columnmounted monitor, which in turn animates the images on its screen.

6. How is the artist affected by cultural context? O In 1990’s, The Legible City is one of his major works and a milestone. It was influenced by the principles of Expanded Cinema, a movement in the 1960s and 1970s which opened up the work to the spectator’s participation O Continues to focus on devices and systems that are centred on the viewer of the artwork

7. What influences can you find that have been important to the artist? O iCinema that he formed was being conducted in an academic research practices, as well as benefit from its economic frameworks O He led a theoretical, aesthetic and technological research program in immersive interactive post-narrative systems

8. Furthermore… O He internationally distinguished for pioneering the creative use of digital media in the fields of virtual and greater reality, immersive visualisation, navigable cinematic system and interactive narrative. His work includes performance, sculpture, video and many interactive installations.

9. PLACE was invented by Shaw, now uses stereoscopic 3D projection EVE was designed by Shaw, viewers choose what they want to see a movie in which they are immersed. The Virtual Museum Sitting in front of the screen in an armchair, visitors can navigate their way through four further virtual spaces by using the weight of their body to tip or swivel the chair. Spaces includes; gallery of pictures, accumulation of sculptures consisting of letters of alphabet, characters from the kanji, floating letters that become a source of light