Culture Lab Newcastle

Staff Profile

Tim Shaw

Lecturer in Digital Media and Sound Art

Background

Artist and researcher Tim Shaw works with sound, light, and communication media to create performances, installations, and site-responsive interventions. His practice spans environmental sound art, digital media, media archaeology, walking, and installation making.


Previously, Tim has developed artistic mechanisms to listen into the sound-worlds of insects, created augmented soundwalks, designed performances for high voltage devices, broadcast radio through trees, listened to network latency through time stretched bells, and extracted musical material from rocks. He frequently presents his work at festivals, in forests, caves, warehouses, up mountains, and in museums and art galleries all over the world.


Collaboration is central to his approach and he has engaged in interdisciplinary partnerships with medieval musicologists, data scientists, anthropologists, geologists, architects and astrophysicists. He has been lucky enough to make artistic work with Chris Watson, Phill Niblock, John Bowers, John Richards (Dirty Electronics), Tetsuya Umeda, Jacek Smolicki and Sébastien Piquemal (among many others).


His artworks, recordings and writings have been featured in The GuardianArte TracksNeuralBBC Radio 3Resonance FMWe Make Money Not ArtTouch RadioThe British Music CollectionThe Field Recording ShowAlphrIts Nice ThatSHAPE and The Space.

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