“In societies where modern conditions of production prevail, life is presented as an immense accumulation of spectacles. The specialization of images of the world has culminated in a world of autonomized images where even the deceivers are deceived. The spectacle serves as a total justification of the conditions and goals of the existing system.” — Guy Debord

Alan N. Shapiro
media theory,
science fiction theory,
future design research

Virtual and Physical Geometric Objects with Processing, by Christos Voutichtis

I want to use the creative coding environment Processing to experiment with and understand the crossover between virtual geometric objects on the screen and physical geometric objects to be generated by 3D printers and other material production devices for trans-architectural art projects.

March 12, 2014
Material Grove 3-D Modeling with Rhinocerus and Grasshopper, by Johannes Wöhrlin

Using the Rhinocerus 3-D modeling tool for designers and the Grasshopper graphical algorithm editor add-on, I created new form generators. I wanted to write code in Python to gain parameterized control over generative algorithms and shape creation.

March 12, 2014
Zaneta’s Welt, by Zaneta Kern

Ich hatte schon lange vor eine Webseite zu Gestalten, beziehungsweise lernen wie man überhaupt gestalterische Idee bei programmieren umsetzen kann. Weil ich im Programmieren erst Anfänger war und immer noch bin, habe ich mich für Gestaltung eines Blogs statt einer Webseite entschieden.

March 11, 2014
Start Here, by Sarah Mohr

Digital Publishing Programmierung und Gestaltung einer Website Mit Grundkenntnissen zu HTML und CSS bestand meine Aufgabe darin, mit Dreamweaver eine simple Website-‐Basis zu bauen, auf deren Konzept eine Portfolio-‐ Internet-‐Präsenz konstruiert werden kann. Die Basis-‐Webseite enthält zwei Kategorien, welche jeweils auf die gestalterischen Rubriken weiterleiten.

March 10, 2014
Cool Lab, by Marvin Kirchner

Das Projekt ist eine Website, die ich mit WordPress erstellt habe. Als Theme habe ich „Twenty Fourteen“ ausgewählt. Auf der Seite „Cool Lab“ zeige ich bisher Illustrationen und eine kurze Animation. Ich möchte die Seite dazu benutzen, um meine Künstlerischen Projekte und Ideen vorzustellen.

March 10, 2014
Hypertext Story, by Patrick Brockmann

Das Projekt »Hypertextstory« ist eine Internetseite welche aus verschiedenen Geschichten besteht, die alle den gleichen Ursprung haben, jedoch unterschiedlich enden. Je nachdem für welchen Link sich der User entscheidet, gelangt er zu einem anderen Ende. Von diesen gelangt man zu jeweils verschiedenen Arbeiten von mir.

March 10, 2014
How Does the Changed Media Environment Influence Young People’s Attention and Education?, by Lena Neumann

The modern world is coming up with a plethora of new media which we all find ourselves faced with everyday. The notion of a change in modes of attention is a question that N. Katherine Hayles discussed in her essay “Hyper and Deep Attention: The Generational Divide in Cognitive Modes.”

November 28, 2013
Der Stellenwert von Simulationen im Berufsleben, von Melike Iskender

Technik und Medien sind heutzutage Bestandteil des alltäglichen Lebens. Einerseits machen sie das Leben des Menschen einfacher; andererseits üben sie einen großen Einfluss auf uns aus. Technik ist längt kein Instrument mehr, über das wir verfügen, um Dinge fertigzustellen; wie dies in früheren Zeiten der Fall war.

September 3, 2013
The Paradigm of Object Spaces: Better Software is Coming, by Bernhard Angerer and Alan N. Shapiro

The hypothetical time traveler whom Michael Stal wrote about in his 2006 article “From the Future” would be disappointed to learn that “prehistoric computer science,” as the temporal traveler termed it, has not changed much as of 2011, five years down the road.

February 12, 2013
How can we redefine information in the age of social media?, by Alan N. Shapiro

On January 24, 2012, I was a keynote speaker at the BOBCATSSS conference on Information Management of the organization of European university libraries in Amsterdam. On the occasion of its 20th anniversary, BOBCATSSS 2012 was organised by students from three universities of applied sciences.

February 12, 2013
A Proposal for Developing Quantum Computing in Software, by Alan N. Shapiro

I believe that the invention of a new computer science, one more powerful than that which presently exists, is possible; a more powerful computer science that often goes by the name of Artificial Intelligence.

February 12, 2013
Rules and Patterns System for Design Process Support Software, by Alan N. Shapiro

It is necessary, in building towards a Design Process Support Software Application, to design and program a Rules and Pattern System as an extreme form of bottom-up object-oriented intelligence (pragmatic AI) that has a direct relationship between perception and action without a guiding top-down intelligence.

February 12, 2013
Improving the Information Society Through Awareness of Languages, by Alan N. Shapiro

On January 24, 2012, I was a keynote speaker at the BOBCATSSS conference on Information Management of the organization of European university libraries in Amsterdam. On the occasion of its 20th anniversary, BOBCATSSS 2012 was organised by students from three universities of applied sciences.

February 12, 2013
Design for a Working Quantum Computer in Software, by Alan N. Shapiro

In Reflections on a Theory of Organisms: Holism in Biology, Walter M. Elsasser argues that the task of elaborating a truly scientific biology still lies ahead of us. Physics and chemistry, in their current states of knowledge, are truly scientific, according to Elsasser.

February 12, 2013
Transforming Computer Science into a Humanities Subject, by Alan N. Shapiro

In his book What Science Offers the Humanities: Integrating Body and Culture, Slingerland argues persuasively that the “French theory” which has dominated university humanities studies in recent decades has serious flaws – like disembodiment and cultural relativism – that need to be corrected by infusions from the cognitive and natural sciences.

February 12, 2013

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