Jeffrey Shaw (b.1944)
Read MoreJeffrey Shaw has been a leading figure in New Media Art since the 1960s. In a prolific body of widely exhibited and critically acclaimed works, 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, digital cultural heritage and interactive narrative. Prof. Shaw was the founding director of the ZKM Institute for Visual Media Karlsruhe, Germany (1991-2002) and from 2009 to 2016 was Dean of the School of Creative Media at CityU. He is currently Yeung Kin Man Chair Professor of Media Art at CityU, and his numerous awards include the Australian Research Council Federation Fellowship, the Ars Electronica Golden Nica for Visionary Pioneer of Media Art, Linz, Austria, and the ACM Siggraph Distinguished Artist Award for Lifetime Achievement in Digital Art.
Sarah Kenderdine (b.1966)
Sarah Kenderdine is a widely published researcher at the forefront of interactive and immersive experiences for galleries, libraries, archives and museums. In her practice she has amalgamated cultural heritage with new media art practice, especially in the realms of interactive cinema, augmented reality and embodied narrative. In 2017, Kenderdine was appointed Professor of Digital Museology at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland where she has founded a new laboratory for experimental museology that explores the convergence of aesthetic practice, visual analytics and cultural data (eM+). She is also director and lead curator of EPFl's new art/science museum, Art Lab.
