Author: Alan N. Shapiro
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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.
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Time-Memory-Experience (part 2 of 4), by Anja Wiesinger
The object of analysis is a digital image archive. I chose ARTstor, the biggest online image library for research and education. ARTstor collaborates worldwide with other institutions to include as many collections as possible. The non-profit organization was founded in 2003, out of the urgency to make image material available by the Internet.
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Time, Memory, Experience (part 1 of 4), by Anja Wiesinger
In my Master’s Thesis in Art History, done at the Technical University of Berlin in 2011, I attempted to revise the theories and concepts that arose in the advent of the Internet in the early 1990s, when the Internet emerged from a blank canvas and served as a projection for dreams about utopian cyberspace.
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The Car of the Future, by Alan N. Shapiro and Alan Cholodenko
In November 2008, Alan N. Shapiro was invited by Volkswagen in Wolfsburg, Germany to speak about his ideas about “the car of the future.” He spoke in front of an audience of people from the Human-Machine Interface Dept. and and the Infotainment Dept.
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A New Computer Science is Underway: Alan N. Shapiro interviewed by Anja Wiesinger
Published in the Berlin fashion print magazine, Fall 2010 (in German and English). American philosopher and veteran software engineer Alan Shapiro reflects on computer science in relation to the history of ideas it originated from.
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On the Sociology of Music, by Alan N. Shapiro and Chris Williams
Here we make the first presentation of our ideas about the reality of popular music in contemporary society. But what is reality? What is the relationship between reality and mediality? Between reality and virtuality? Between reality and simulations? What is music in the context of our social system of consumer culture?