Category: Future Design
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An Interdisciplinary Approach to Building Robots, by Alan N. Shapiro
These are my “lecture notes” for my lecture at the Art University in Linz, Austria on June 21, 2011. In the first part, I presented the idea of beginning a multidisciplinary and “humanities informatics” approach to the development of robots-slash-androids, going beyond the mechanical engineering approach to ASIMO that Honda has taken so far.
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Towards a Unified Existential Science of Humans and Androids, by Alan N. Shapiro
Presented with the reality, which is at the same time still half-fictional, of bringing robots or androids into our social world, I believe that we are being offered the gift of an opportunity for humanity to grow and develop, to untangle the knots binding us to our current stagnation, to improve our lives.
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Art and Design in the Age of New Media and New Technologies, by Alan N. Shapiro
On January 16th, 2013, I gave a lecture at the Bath Spa University, Bath School of Art and Design, in Bath, UK. What are the main trends in the history of New Media Art? How have artworks evolved through the application of digital technologies, computer graphics, virtual reality environments, robotics and biotechnology?
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“Software of the Future” on Tour, by Alan N. Shapiro
I leave on Saturday for an 8-day tour in Berlin and Potsdam. These events are about “the software of the future,” a software that will be made by artists and designers, not by techies and engineers. It is about a new kind of programming by artists.
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Twenty Basic Principles of a New Green Politics, by Alan N. Shapiro
The disasters that we are facing in the areas of ecology, energy and the environment are well-known and they are truly horrific. However, the fact that everyone knows about these disasters is more a factor contributing to nothing constructive been done about them than it is a factor contributing to something being done about them.
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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.