💫AMC Creative Synergy Seminar Series 01 💫

The Division of Arts and Machine Creativity (AMC) is launching its first instalment of the AMC Creative Synergy Seminar Series, aiming to foster dialogue and innovation across disciplines through inspiring talks from renowned experts at the forefront of art and technology.

🗓️ Date & Venue
Nov 20, 2025, 2:30 - 3:30pm @Room 4621 (Lift 31/32)

🔗 ZOOM link
https://hkust.zoom.us/j/93304207666?pwd=rkSwxXMt1A9yqYdJSORZPvFUbaMYgT.1

🎭 Title
The Art of art+tech – then, now and to come

📑 Abstract
Prof. Jeffrey SHAW will present a survey of new media art seen through the lens of his singular pioneering practice. In over 50 years of ground-breaking research, first principles are discovered and elaborated in conjunction with emergent technologies so that an aesthetic and conceptual grammar evolves, which despite an increasingly noisy technological landscape, seeks to position art at the heart of what really matters as we shape the future.

👤 Speaker bio
Jeffrey Shaw has been a leading figure in new media art since its emergence from the performance, expanded cinema and installation paradigms of the 1960’s. In a prolific career of widely exhibited and critically acclaimed work, he has pioneered the creative use of digital media technologies in the fields of virtual and augmented reality, immersive visualization environments, navigable cinematic systems and interactive narrative. Prof. Shaw was the founding director of the ZKM Institute for Visual Media Karlsruhe, Germany (1991-2002), and co-founding director of the University of New South Wales Australia iCinema Centre for Interactive Cinema Research (2003-2009). He was Dean of the School of Creative Media at City University of Hong Kong (2009-2016) and the Director of the Centre for Applied Computing and Interactive Media at CityU (2016-2021). His numerous awards and honours include the ACM SIGGRAPH Distinguished Artist Award for Lifetime Achievement in Digital Art.