Alan N. Shapiro
media theory,
science fiction theory,
future design research
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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.
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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?
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Radical skepticism and the logic of Shakespeare’s artistry, by Robert Schneider
Robert Schneider is the author of a book-length reinterpretation of Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice called Shylock, The Roman. This book is important as a basis for investigating the relationship between Shakespeare and Star Trek as twin canonical texts of what universities call “Western Civ.”
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The Best of All Possible Worlds: Modal Metaphysics and Possibilia, by James Shapiro
A brilliant intellectual whose work spanned many fields—mathematics, geometry, physics, etc., in addition to his philosophical contributions—Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz remains best known for his rather unique version of “theodicy.” This term refers to an argument defending the benevolence of God and His methods, despite the worldly suffering and injustice that has and always will occur.
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Media theory: beyond the dualities of form and content, critical and enthusiastic, real and fake, by Alan N. Shapiro
On January 26, 2012, I gave a lecture in the Speakers’ Series of the Centre for the Study of Theory, Culture and Politics at Trent University in Peterborough, Ontario, Canada. My topic was: “Media theory: beyond the dualities of form and content, critical and enthusiastic, real and fake.”
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Introduction to Polona Tratnik, by Anja Wiesinger
In a biological sense, being part of the human skin, hair regulates the body temperature. It is home to millions of bacteria that interchange with the environment and help build the body’s resistance to harmful organisms. Hair is not able to grow or continue to live when departed from the human body and cut off…
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From The Technological Herbarium, by Gianna Maria Gatti: Artworks of Nicola Toffolini (translated by Alan N. Shapiro)
Nicola Toffolini works on the nature-technology marriage by elaborating singular ecosystems enclosed in glass and aluminium cases of marked formal elegance. Inside plants have been placed which, in order to live, depend on sophisticated electronic mechanisms, which visitors operate from the outside interactively.
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Impressionist Paintings by Florence Morrison, Installment 3
My mother was a realist and slightly impressionist painter of natural and nautical scenes who paradoxically studied with the abstract master Mark Rothko.
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Anticipating the Future through Knowledge of the Fiction in Social Reality, by Alan N. Shapiro
I was the keynote speaker at the conference on “Das Wissen der Zukunft” (“Knowledge of the Future”) that took place at the University of Vienna on November 4-5, 2011.
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The Jig She Saw: Reflections on Creating Relational Encounters in Participatory Theatre, by Regan O’Brien
I will be reflecting on the theories and practice of creating and performing The Jig She Saw: Reflections on You, a small scale immersive, interactive performance installation. The project is rooted in Relational Aesthetics as discussed by Erin Manning in Relationscapes, and in social choreography in relation to William Forsythe’s research on the ‘choreographic object’.
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