Biography
Shaw was born in Melbourne, Australia and studied at the University of Melbourne, sculpture at Brera Academy, Milan and St. Martins School, London. He was the co-founder the Artist Placement Group in London (1966–1989), of the Eventstructure Research Group in Amsterdam (1969–1979), and founding director (1991–2003) of the ZKM Institute for Visual Media in Karlsruhe. in 1976, he designed the inflatable pig, flown over Battersea Power Station, and used by Pink Floyd on the cover of their Animals album and subsequent tour. At the ZKM, he initiated and led a seminal artistic research, production and exhibition program that included residencies and the creation of new works by many of the most notable media artists of our time. In 1995, Shaw was appointed Professor of Media Art at the Staatlichen Hochschule für Gestaltung, Karlsruhe.
Shaw’s career is also distinguished by his collaborations with fellow artists including Tjebbe van Tijen, Theo Botschuijver, Dirk Goeneveld, Peter Gabriel, Agnes Hegedues, David Pledger, The Wooster Group, William Forsyth, Dennis Del Favero, Peter Weibel, Jean Michel Bruyere, Bernd Lintermann, and Sarah Kenderdine.
Shaw was awarded an Australian Research Council Federation Fellowship in 2003, and returned to Australia to co-found and direct the UNSW iCinema Centre’s research program in immersive interactive narrative systems for distributed and situated intercommunication, where world leading aesthetic and technical research into immersive interactive post-narrative systems is being undertaken.
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