Author: Alan N. Shapiro
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The development of New Music theory and philosophy with focus on the American composer John Cage, by Marit Trantel
Cage was one of the most important composers of New Music and helped to revolutionise the concept of traditional classical music entirely. Important for this revolution was also the philosophy that stood behind his music and which is intricately linked to his “compositions“.
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“Nature Disappears Beneath Our Words and Images”: Nicola Toffolini interviewed by Alan N. Shapiro
That makes me think of two different meanings of the word ‘performance’. In the theatre, you are doing the performance. In your artwork, the technical specialists who construct the artefacts that you have designed are performing the artwork, in the sense that they are implementing the design.
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“I Bring Philosophy and Biotechnology into the Sphere of Art”: Polona Tratnik interviewed by Alan N. Shapiro
You use the phrase “engagements in culture” at your website to describe some of what you do. Is this idea a way of connecting together your two careers as an artist and as a professor of media culture and cultural studies?
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How to Take Back Our Freedom in the Surveillance Society, by Alan N. Shapiro
We need to go beyond Foucault-, Orwell-, and Huxley-inspired models of how contemporary quasi-totalitarian systems of social control work. Individual freedom right now is in big trouble. American hyper-reality, hyper-work, hyper-consumerism, hyper-communication, and hyper-eating today strike me in so many aspects as being systems of mutual- and self-surveillance.
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“Die Software der Zukunft,” new book by Alan Shapiro
My new book Die Software der Zukunft was just published by the Walther König Verlag in Cologne. Mit seiner “Software der Zukunft” pladiert der Informatiker und Medientheoretiker Alan Shapiro für eine partizipatorisch realisierte Neuausrichtung der Informatik.
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Natural Language Processing, by Matthieu Lion
My project consists of research into Natural Language Processing, including developing in Java and the RebeccaAIML platform a conversational flow interaction between a human and a software. I will integrate aspects of the SuperObjects paradigm.