Presenter: Professor Jeffrey Shaw
Australian Research Council Federation Fellow
Executive Director iCinema Centre for Interactive Cinema Research
University of New South Wales,
Title: MOVIES AFTER FILM -THE DIGITALLY EXPANDED CIINEMA
Abstract:
Despite cinema’s heritage of technological and creative diversity, it
is Hollywood that has come to define its technological apparatus, its
dominant forms of production and distribution, and its narrative forms.
This hegemony of the Hollywood model of movie making is now being
challenged by the radical new potentialities of the digital media
technologies. Though it is still early in the process, one can identify
certain focal features of this emergent domain of the digitally
expanded cinema. The technologies of virtual reality point to a cinema
that is an immersive interactive narrative space wherein the
viewer/user assumes the role of both camera-person and editor. The
technologies of video games and the Internet point to a cinema of
distributed virtual environments that can also be social spaces where
the tele-present people become protagonists in a set of narrative
dislocations. In his presentation Jeffrey Shaw will discuss these
salient aspects of the digitally expanded cinema, and show numerous
examples of his world renowned and pioneering interactive installations
to illustrate this topic.
Short bio:
Born in Melbourne, Jeffrey Shaw has been a leading figure in new media
art since its emergence from the performance, expanded cinema and installation
paradigms of the 1960s to its present day technology-informed and virtualized
forms.
In a prolific oeuvre of widely exhibited and critically acclaimed works
(www.jeffrey-shaw.net) he has pioneered and set benchmarks for the creative use
of digital media technologies in the fields of virtual and augmented reality,
immersive visualization environments, navigable cinematic systems, algorithmic
software techniques, and interactive narrative.
He was the founding director (1991-2003) of the ZKM | Institute for Visual Media
Karlsruhe, where he initiated, supervised and curated a seminal international
art-science research program. He recently curated the FUTURE CINEMA exhibition
at the ZKM Karlsruhe, ICC Tokyo and KIASMA Helsinki, the catalogue of which has
been published by MIT Press.
Jeffrey Shaw is the founding executive director of the iCinema Centre for
Interactive Cinema Research at UNSW (www.icinema.unsw.edu.au) and was awarded
an Australian Research Council Federation Fellowship in 2003. He is also
director of international projects at the ZKM | Institute for Visual Media and
visiting professor at the University of Art and Media, Karlsruhe.
