Author: Alan N. Shapiro
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Towards a New Green Politics, by Alan N. Shapiro
On October 11, 2012, I gave a lecture called “Towards a New Green Politics” at the Digital Art department of the University of Applied Arts in Vienna. Here is the Abstract of the talk, and some of my lecture notes.
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The Plane of the Future, by Alan N. Shapiro, and Congetture minime sullo spazi-tempo, by Pier Luigi Capucci
In airports as they are today, the passengers experience the terrible inconvenience of going through the security check of their carry-on luggage. This security system – the purpose of which is, of course, absolutely vital to the prevention of terrorist incidents and hijackings – is designed like an assembly line in a factory.
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What’s the Use of Unrequited Love?, by Vesela Mihaylova
The subject of this thesis has its roots in a personal experience. I fell in love, but I was not loved in return and I had to ask myself what was the use or the sense of this love. The affair ended, and I decided to apply my emotions and feelings into an artistic project.
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Inter-disciplinary or Trans-disciplinary? by Nolan Bazinet
The discourse of reconciling two epistemologically disparate cultures (the humanities and the natural sciences) has come a long way. From the unfortunate decade of the 1990s when such a discourse – or rather, emotionally-charged debate – was dubbed ‘The Science Wars’ to today’s debates, intellectuals from both camps are finally attempting to bridge a divide.
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Time-Memory-Experience (part 4 of 4), by Anja Wiesinger and Alan N. Shapiro
We would like to look into the timeliness of the computer, the rhythm created by the machine and by the user, and the perception of time produced in the interaction between user and machine. Computers don’t have a concept of time as we know it.
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Time-Memory-Experience (part 3 of 4), by Anja Wiesinger
The Optical Unconscious in Walter Benjamin’s writing appears first in „A little history of photography“ (1931). Benjamin describes how photography evolved from the portrait photography of the middle of the 19th century to the Paris recordings by Eugene Agdet’s in the 1920s to the applications of the mass media.