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  • ...Jeffrey SHAW has been a pioneer and leading figure in new media art since its emergence. In the context of the 1960’s paradigm of installation he started with expanded cinema, performance and participatory environments, aiming to change the traditional relation between...
  • ... Interactive installations dramatizing historical subjects since mid eighties: Imaginary Museum of Revolution with Jeffrey Shaw (1988-1989), Orbis Pictus Revised with Milos Vojtechovsky (1994-1996) and Neo-Shamanism with Fred Gales (1997-1998), Digital...
  • Continuous Sound and Image Moments is a hand-drawn black-and-white animated film loop with no beginning or end. Conceived as a cinematic expansion of pictorial means, the process of making thousands of drawings (rather than any individual picture)
  • The Dante Cupboard -
    This mixed-media sculpture extended over the gallery floor so that the viewers had to walk over it.
  • Slides of Clovis Trouille's paintings were projected over the buttocks of a replica of the leading lady in "Mes funérailles" (1940) and also onto a paper projection screen which was torn open by inflatable tubing during the performance. At the
  • Emergences of Continuous Forms was one of a series of performances and installations in this period which explored various methods of extending the cinematic image into the space of the viewers and of provoking the viewer's physical
  • Disillusion of a Fish Pond was one of three performances during the exhibition This is no Thing - This is a Situation of Opportunity at the Kingly Street Gallery in London. In this work a naked woman swathed in bandages of cotton-wool was sitting at
  • Glove Screen -
    This work was one of three performances during the exhibition This is no Thing - This is a Situation of Opportunity at the Kingly Street Gallery in London. Viewers could interactively control the inflation and deflation of transculent white surgical
  • 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
  • Corpocinema -
    The Corpocinema ('corporeal cinema') was an expanded cinema environment presented in a series of open-air performances in Rotterdam and Amsterdam in 1967. The basic structure was a large air-inflated transparent PVC dome onto which film