Tim Shaw

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, medical 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).

• In 2023/24 Tim was a Senior Fellow at the Collegium Helveticum in Zürich.
• In 2019 Tim was selected for SHAPE (Sound and Heterogeneous Arts Platform Europe).
• Tim is a Lecturer in Digital Media at Newcastle University.
• Tim is the co-curator of the Walking Festival of Sound.
• Tim holds a PhD in Digital Media from Culture Lab, Newcastle University.
• He is an associate artist at Wild Musuem