Alan N. Shapiro, Hypermodernism, Hyperreality, Posthumanism

Blog and project archive about media theory, science fiction theory, and creative coding

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Virtual and Physical Geometric Objects with Processing, by Christos Voutichtis

March 12th, 2014 in the categories: Offenbach Students: Creative Coding Projects

I want to use the creative coding environment Processing to experiment with and understand the crossover between virtual geometric objects on the screen and physical geometric objects to be generated by 3D printers and other material production devices for trans-architectural art projects.
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Material Grove 3-D Modeling with Rhinocerus and Grasshopper, by Johannes Wöhrlin

March 12th, 2014 in the categories: Offenbach Students: Creative Coding Projects

Using the Rhinocerus 3-D modeling tool for designers and the Grasshopper graphical algorithm editor add-on, I created new form generators. I wanted to write code in Python to gain parameterized control over generative algorithms and shape creation.
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Zaneta’s Welt, by Zaneta Kern

March 11th, 2014 in the categories: Offenbach Students: Wordpress Projects

Ich hatte schon lange vor eine Webseite zu Gestalten, beziehungsweise lernen wie man überhaupt gestalterische Idee bei programmieren umsetzen kann. Weil ich im Programmieren erst Anfänger war und immer noch bin, habe ich mich für Gestaltung eines Blogs statt einer Webseite entschieden.
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Start Here, by Sarah Mohr

March 10th, 2014 in the categories: Offenbach Students: HTML & JavaScript Projects

Bestand meine Aufgabe darin, mit Dreamweaver eine simple Website-­‐Basis zu bauen, auf deren Konzept eine Portfolio-­‐Internet-­‐Präsenz konstruiert werden kann. Die Basis-­‐Webseite enthält zwei Kategorien, welche jeweils auf die gestalterischen Rubriken weiterleiten.
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Cool Lab, by Marvin Kirchner

March 10th, 2014 in the categories: Offenbach Students: Wordpress Projects

Auf der Seite „Cool Lab“ zeige ich bisher Illustrationen und eine kurze Animation. Ich möchte die Seite dazu benutzen, um meine Künstlerischen Projekte und Ideen vorzustellen. Unter anderem kann die Seite auch ein Portfolio sein.
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Hypertext Story, by Patrick Brockmann

March 10th, 2014 in the categories: Offenbach Students: Hypertext Projects

Das Projekt »Hypertextstory« ist eine Internetseite welche aus verschiedenen Geschichten besteht, die alle den gleichen Ursprung haben, jedoch unterschiedlich enden. Je nachdem für welchen Link sich der User entscheidet, gelangt er zu einem anderen Ende. CLICK BUTTON BELOW FOR MORE STUDENT PROJECTS!
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How Does the Changed Media Environment Influence Young People’s Attention and Education?, by Lena Neumann

November 28th, 2013 in the categories: Architecture

The modern world is not coming up with a plethora of new media which we are faced with everyday. The notion of a change in modes of attention is a question that N. Katherine Hayles discussed in her essay “Hyper and Deep Attention: The Generational Divide in Cognitive Modes”, which was published in 2007.
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Der Stellenwert von Simulationen im Berufsleben, von Melike Iskender

September 3rd, 2013 in the categories: Sherry Turkle

Technik und Medien sind heutzutage Bestandteil des alltäglichen Lebens. Einerseits machen sie das Leben des Menschen einfacher; andererseits üben sie einen großen Einfluss auf uns aus. Technik ist längt kein Instrument mehr, über das wir verfügen, um Dinge fertigzustellen; wie dies in früheren Zeiten der Fall war.
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The Paradigm of Object Spaces: Better Software is Coming, by Bernhard Angerer and Alan N. Shapiro

February 12th, 2013 in the categories: Computer Science 2.0

Object Spaces is the start of the road towards making a qualitative revolution in computer science: a major upgrade in how software is made, and in the power of what it can do. Object Spaces takes on infrastructural challenges with an application-centered unified programming paradigm.
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How can we redefine information in the age of social media?, by Alan N. Shapiro

February 12th, 2013 in the categories: Information Society, Social Media

On January 24, 2012, I was a keynote speaker at the BOBCATSSS conference on Information Management in Amsterdam. The conference was organised by students from 3 universities of applied sciences, namely Hogeschool van Amsterdam (NL), Hanze Hogeschool Groningen (NL), and Stuttgart Media University (GER).
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A Proposal for Developing Quantum Computing in Software, by Alan N. Shapiro

February 12th, 2013 in the categories: Alexis Clancy, Humanities Informatics, Mathematics

The goal of quantum computing has been clearly and explicitly defined by computer scientists, but the mathematics of how to implement qubits and superposition states does not yet exist. It should be noted right away that most efforts to realize quantum computing are, in my view, too one-sidedly hardware-centric.
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Rules and Patterns System for Design Process Support Software, by Alan N. Shapiro

February 12th, 2013 in the categories: Computer Science 2.0

It is necessary, in building towards a Design Process Support Software Application, to design and program a Rules and Pattern System as an extreme form of bottom-up object-oriented intelligence (pragmatic AI) that has a direct relationship between perception and action without a guiding top-down intelligence.
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Improving the Information Society Through Awareness of Languages, by Alan N. Shapiro

February 12th, 2013 in the categories: Information Society, Language

This is the text of a paper that I presented at the ISEA2011 festival of new media, electronic and digital arts in Istanbul, Turkey on September 21, 2011.
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Design for a Working Quantum Computer in Software, by Alan N. Shapiro

February 12th, 2013 in the categories: Computer Science 2.0

A Quantum/Real World Software System with Similarity-Based Dynamic Objects
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Transforming Computer Science into a Humanities Subject, by Alan N. Shapiro

February 12th, 2013 in the categories: Humanities Informatics

Despite its name, Computer Science is so far only an engineering discipline. Computer Science excluded art and sociology at its foundation, making itself into a strictly technical engineering practice, the tweaking of bits and bytes. We need a New Computer Science that integrates art and sociology at a fundamental level.
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