Alan N. Shapiro, Hypermodernism, Hyperreality, Posthumanism

Blog and project archive about media theory, science fiction theory, and creative coding

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“Nature Disappears Beneath Our Words and Images”: Nicola Toffolini interviewed by Alan N. Shapiro

September 7th, 2014 in the categories: The Illusion Beyond Art

I interviewed the Italian artist Nicola Toffolini in Bologna, Italy. I spoke in English, and Nicola spoke in Italian. I have translated his comments into English.
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“I Bring Philosophy and Biotechnology into the Sphere of Art”: Polona Tratnik interviewed by Alan N. Shapiro

September 7th, 2014 in the categories: The Illusion Beyond Art

I interviewed the Slovenian artist and media culture-cultural studies professor Polona Tratnik in Ljubljana, Slovenia.
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How to Take Back Our Freedom in the Surveillance Society, by Alan N. Shapiro

September 3rd, 2014 in the categories: Surveillance

It should have been clear a long time ago that the emerging omnipresence of information technologies would lead to an explosion of surveillance in all areas of our lives. We need to go beyond Foucault-, Orwell- and Huxley-inspired models of how contemporary quasi-totalitarian systems of social control work.
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“Die Software der Zukunft,” new book by Alan Shapiro

September 3rd, 2014 in the categories: Computer Science 2.0, Future Design

Mit seiner "Software der Zukunft" pladiert der Informatiker und Medientheoretiker Alan Shapiro für eine partizipatorisch realisierte Neuausrichtung der Informatik. Dies wäre eine Informatik der "rechten Gehirnhälfte", die zwar auf der bestehenden, technisch ausgerichteten Wissenschaft vom Computer aufbaut, sie aber näher an die Disziplinen Kunst, Soziologie, Philosophie und Kulturtheorie heranrückt.
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Natural Language Processing, by Matthieu Lion

September 3rd, 2014 in the categories: Offenbach Students: Artificial Intelligence Projects

My project consists of research into the area of Natural Language Processing, including developing in Java and the RebeccaAIML platform a conversational flow interaction between a human and a software.
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Sorcerer’s Apprentice Video Game for the Android Smartphone Platform, Programmed in Java, by Sitha Reis

September 3rd, 2014 in the categories: Offenbach Students: Creative Coding Projects

I programmed a Sorcerer's Apprentice Video Game for the Android smartphone platform in Java. I used the Eclipse Java Integrated Development Environment. The video game is very graphics-intensive, and I used the OpenGL toolkit, which is the industry standard for high performance graphics.
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Generating Sound Art from Java Code, by Anna Semykina

September 3rd, 2014 in the categories: Offenbach Students: Generative Art Projects

My generative art project is written in Java code. I want to generate sound from mathematics. I want to read a graphics file pixel by pixel, get the RGB values of each pixel, and generate sound from that.
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AnatoMe Hypermedia System, by Magdalena Fournillier

September 3rd, 2014 in the categories: Offenbach Students: HTML & JavaScript Projects

„AnatoMe“ ist ein Programm / eine Applikation zur illustrativen Darstellung der morphologisch fassbaren, krankhaften Veränderung der menschlichen Organe. Das Programm ist in HTML, CSS und PHP geschrieben.
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Portfolio, by Vanessa Ramster

September 2nd, 2014 in the categories: Offenbach Students: HTML & JavaScript Projects

My project is HTML- and JavaScript-based, and builds upon the OVERFLOW project, a site template designed by AJ for HTML5 UP. It's fully responsive, and built on skelJS.