Alan N. Shapiro, Hypermodernism, Hyperreality, Posthumanism

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

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Star Trek: Technologien des Verschwindens, von Alan N. Shapiro

June 19th, 2015 in the categories: Star Trek

Star Trek is die verbreiteste "Ikone" der technologischen Kultur. Zu den größten Fans gehören Physiker, Ingenieure, Informatiker, Grafikkünstler und Medienschaffende. Doch die ursprüngliche Kreativät von Star Trek wird von der Star Trek-Industrie neutralisiert.
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Towards the Internet of Creators, by Alan N. Shapiro

April 25th, 2015 in the categories: Art and Economics

The Berlin-based art-media-technology startup company Ascribe GmbH brings to our attention the fact that the Internet that we have is missing a crucial ownership layer for creators. We don’t yet have an Internet where the creator of a photograph, a video, a piece of music, a segment of software code, a digital artwork, or a writerly composition is identified by a special authentication signature or a certificate of ownership.
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Transdisciplinary Code and Objects, by Alan N. Shapiro

April 18th, 2015 in the categories: Software Studies

In their book Code/Space: Software and Everyday Life, Rob Kitchin and Martin Dodge examine the explosive invasion of information about ourselves into our everyday lives, and the increasingly ubiquitous availability of this information to institutions and strangers through many standalone, networked, peripheral, handheld and mobile devices.
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The development of New Music theory and philosophy with focus on the American composer John Cage, by Marit Trantel

March 9th, 2015 in the categories: The Illusion Beyond Art

I will explore how John Cage’s music and his philosophy relate with other theories of New Media philosophy. Cage was one of the most important composers of New Music and helped to revolutionise the concept of traditional classical music entirely.
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“Nature Disappears Beneath Our Words and Images”: Nicola Toffolini interviewed by Alan N. Shapiro

September 7th, 2014 in the categories: The Illusion Beyond Art

I interviewed the Italian artist Nicola Toffolini in Bologna, Italy. I spoke in English, and Nicola spoke in Italian. I have translated his comments into English.
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“I Bring Philosophy and Biotechnology into the Sphere of Art”: Polona Tratnik interviewed by Alan N. Shapiro

September 7th, 2014 in the categories: The Illusion Beyond Art

I interviewed the Slovenian artist and media culture-cultural studies professor Polona Tratnik in Ljubljana, Slovenia.
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How to Take Back Our Freedom in the Surveillance Society, by Alan N. Shapiro

September 3rd, 2014 in the categories: Surveillance

It should have been clear a long time ago that the emerging omnipresence of information technologies would lead to an explosion of surveillance in all areas of our lives. We need to go beyond Foucault-, Orwell- and Huxley-inspired models of how contemporary quasi-totalitarian systems of social control work.
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“Die Software der Zukunft,” new book by Alan Shapiro

September 3rd, 2014 in the categories: Computer Science 2.0, Future Design

Mit seiner "Software der Zukunft" pladiert der Informatiker und Medientheoretiker Alan Shapiro für eine partizipatorisch realisierte Neuausrichtung der Informatik. Dies wäre eine Informatik der "rechten Gehirnhälfte", die zwar auf der bestehenden, technisch ausgerichteten Wissenschaft vom Computer aufbaut, sie aber näher an die Disziplinen Kunst, Soziologie, Philosophie und Kulturtheorie heranrückt.
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Natural Language Processing, by Matthieu Lion

September 3rd, 2014 in the categories: Offenbach Students: Artificial Intelligence Projects

My project consists of research into the area of Natural Language Processing, including developing in Java and the RebeccaAIML platform a conversational flow interaction between a human and a software.
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Sorcerer’s Apprentice Video Game for the Android Smartphone Platform, Programmed in Java, by Sitha Reis

September 3rd, 2014 in the categories: Offenbach Students: Creative Coding Projects

I programmed a Sorcerer's Apprentice Video Game for the Android smartphone platform in Java. I used the Eclipse Java Integrated Development Environment. The video game is very graphics-intensive, and I used the OpenGL toolkit, which is the industry standard for high performance graphics.
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Generating Sound Art from Java Code, by Anna Semykina

September 3rd, 2014 in the categories: Offenbach Students: Generative Art Projects

My generative art project is written in Java code. I want to generate sound from mathematics. I want to read a graphics file pixel by pixel, get the RGB values of each pixel, and generate sound from that.
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AnatoMe Hypermedia System, by Magdalena Fournillier

September 3rd, 2014 in the categories: Offenbach Students: HTML & JavaScript Projects

„AnatoMe“ ist ein Programm / eine Applikation zur illustrativen Darstellung der morphologisch fassbaren, krankhaften Veränderung der menschlichen Organe. Das Programm ist in HTML, CSS und PHP geschrieben.
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Portfolio, by Vanessa Ramster

September 2nd, 2014 in the categories: Offenbach Students: HTML & JavaScript Projects

My project is HTML- and JavaScript-based, and builds upon the OVERFLOW project, a site template designed by AJ for HTML5 UP. It's fully responsive, and built on skelJS.
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Software Code as Expanded Narration, by Alan N. Shapiro

May 17th, 2014 in the categories: Computer Science 2.0

Computer programming is about algorithms, formal logic, precise reasoning and problem solving. As such, it would appear to have little to do with what we call creative expression. The logical act of programming and the self-expressive act of creativity would seem to be polar opposites.
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The Relevance of “The Prisoner” to Today’s Information and Surveillance Society, by Alan N. Shapiro

April 8th, 2014 in the categories: The Prisoner

I do a media sociology of "The Prisoner." I relate "The Prisoner" to Orwell, McLuhan, Foucault, Baudrillard, and Flusser. "The Prisoner" as a literary text is at the heart of modern media theory. It is "the real deal" for understanding the information and surveillance society of 2014, as Catherine McGoohan said.
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