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  • A city counsil street light repair vehicle was completely covered in tartan printed plastic. It drove nightly through Edinburgh broadcasting traditional bagpipe music and projecting tartan patterns onto the city's buildings. Also presented at
  • Waterwalk -
    The Waterwalk was a 3-metre-high tetrahedron shaped balloon made from transparent (and sometimes coloured) plastic. A watertight zip allowed people to enter and be sealed inside. When this lightweight structure was inflated with air, one or more
  • ... image showing the composite of the four language characters the persons atop the tall structures are manipulating. © Jeffrey Shaw
  • ... remediated as a narrative sequence that focuses on their spatial, formal and pictorially associative qualities. © Jeffrey Shaw
  • Martin Rieser and Andrea Zapp, ed. Movies after Film - The Digitally Expanded Cinema. London: British Film Institute, 2002.
  • Diadrama
    The Diadrama was an audio-visual performance with over 2000 slides being projected onto a large wide screen by three pairs of synchronised slide projectors. The main themes explored in this work were panoramic methods of representation, the collage
  • Sandquake -
    ... This tubing was then slowly inflated so that it gradually rose up and erupted out of the sand. (source: http://www.jeffrey-shaw.net/html_main/show_work.php3?record_id=27)
  • An interactive sculpture that is directly controlled by the visitors to this public swimming pool. A transparent plastic wall is composed of thirteen panels filled with pale blue liquid. Each panel has an electro-magnetic air valve which can release
  • Striptease films were projected onto a woman doing a striptease. She struggled to remove her clothes while tightly encapsulated inside an inflatable balloon-costume. When she was naked a masked figure inserted the nozzle of a fire extinguisher and
  • ...Huhtamo, Erkki. Media Art in the Third Dimension: Stereoscopic Imaging and Contemporary Art In Future Cinema, edited by Jeffrey Shaw and Peter Weibel, 466-473. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2003.