<== HONORARY PROFESSORSHIP FOR JEFFREY SHAW: CEREMONY SEPTEMBER 8th, DANUBE UNIVERSITY ==> Danube University awards Prof. Jeffrey Shaw a honorary professorship on the merit of his long-time achievements in the fields of artistic and technological development, and for the scientific dissemination of media art. Through his work as an artist, researcher, curator and instructor at highly regarded universities, Shaw has contributed significantly to the development and research of immersive visualization environments, innovative user interfaces and interactive narration systems, and imparting of knowledge in media art. With his special artistic and technical competences, Shaw is a pioneer in the investigation and enhancement of creative and interactive possibilities with new technologies. Already in the 1960s Jeffrey Shaw co-founded artist groups that realized progressive participatory projects. Later, Shaw expanded his architectural and dynamic models using computer technology. JEFFREY SHAW's benchmarking and pioneering oeuvre is documented on ADA with over 140 media art works from his earliest 'happenings' like "Corpocinema" (1967) to his most recent site-specific immersions like "Look Up Bombay" (2015). An extensive quantity of images from concept drawings to exhibition photographs record his artistic process from inception to installation. In addition to these still images, and the art history of the digital age to which they are witness, an extended documentation enables ADA community members to more deeply explore SHAW'S body of work. Digital videos document his interactive and multi-media works. And textual material that includes artists statements, press releases, scholarly articles, and technical schematics, offer qualitative information on the multifarious iterations of SHAW'S artworks, exhibitions around the world, and collaborations with specialists such as those in the computer sciences. Further, a transhistorical keyword index, the Media Art Research Thesaurus, interconnects these contemporary media artworks by SHAW with their art historical predecessors on other digital databases, so that users of ADA are able to comparatively investigate his works through the very terms central to his practice–'acoustic,' 'expanded cinema,' 'panorama,' 'virtual,' and beyond! Jeffrey Shaw's work on ADA: https://www.digitalartarchive.at/database/artists/general/artist/shaw.html Comparative analysis on „Panorama“: http://mediaartresearch.org/search/key-liste.html?tx_vaindex_pi1%5Bkeywordui... Shaw worked as the founding director at the Institute for Image Media at ZKM in Karlsruhe from 1991 to 2003. Among other major exhibitions, he curated with Peter Weibel “Future Cinema” in 2002/2003. Shaw led his self-founded iCinema Centre for Interactive Cinema Research at the University of New South Wales in Sydney from 2003 to 2009. And since 2009, he is chair professor for Media Art and dean of the School of Creative Media at City University Hong Kong. A decisive factor for distinguishing Shaw with this award in addition to his artistic and scientific achievements, is his long relation and contribution to the Department of Image Science at Danube University. He teaches in courses that include the MediaArtHistories master’s program. And, as (former) dean and professor of the School of Creative Media at City University Hong Kong, Shaw functions as an important partner in the new Erasmus+ program Media Arts Cultures, developed by a consortium of Danube University, Aalborg University, Univerisity of Łódz, and City University Hong Kong, and led by Professor Grau, Chair of the Department of Image Science at Danube University. The solemn ceremony will take place on Thursday, September 8th 2016, 6 p.m. at Danube University. Department for Image Science DANUBE UNIVERSITY AUSTRIA www.donau-uni.ac.at/dbw