[3] Squat won the Pauline Palmer Prize at the Art Institute of Chicago that year in a show juried by James Speyer and Walter Hopps.

[4] In 1969, Squat would be included in the landmark exhibition, The Machine as Seen at the End of the Mechanical Age at New York's Museum of Modern Art.

[5]Though science and technology highly influence Shannon's practice, his work profoundly reveals a deeper connection to hidden beauty within universal themes.

By designing a system of permanent magnets Shannon's sculptures evoke a sense of weightlessness as seemingly heavy materials, such as metal and wood, effortlessly float above their base.

The  seven-meter magnetic piece was acquired by The Musee d'Art Moderne de Paris after its inclusion in their 1983 exhibit titled, ALEA[S].

With the participation of R. Buckminster Fuller and Shoji Sadao, Shannon patented and produced Synchronous World Clock, 1983 (edition of 20).

[12][13] Shannon was commissioned by the Grand Palais in Paris to make a movie of his Airlands project (aka Outlands) for a major millennial show covering ten thousand years titled,Visions of the Future.

For example, Shannon's sculpture, Ray, 1986, exhibits the Sun and Earth in proportion with the cone of energy, gravity, electromagnetic, and luminosity which collectively connect the two spheres.

[15] This method has additionally been implemented in his "Array" works where a series of suspended magnetic spheres fill an entire room of three-dimensional crystalline arrangements.

The sculpture's internal mechanisms consist of axles, ball-bearings, universal joints, ball & sockets, fulcrums and massive counterweights.

The sculpture's interior grant the ability to interact with Shannon's work allowing the pieces to spin, tilt, rise/fall and glide horizontally while eventually returning to equilibrium.

Composed of five rotating stainless steel shapes, the sculpture stands at 25-ft while interacting with both the outdoor elements along with visitor participation.

At first he used traditional brush and ink, watercolor, or oil to create paintings reflecting concepts of three-dimensional projects and their settings such as sculptures in a landscape.

Shannon designed a LED-covered spherical blimp with cameras that could land at school campuses and other public locations to deliver education and at night host rave dances.