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Questioning Steven Hawking’s Scientific Discourse, by Marc Silver and Simon...
Alan Shapiro: Most of this text is an interview-conversation between Professor Marc Silver of the University of Modena and Professor Simon Schaffer of Cambridge University that took place in Cambridge,...
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Eduardo Kac: Living Works, by Claudio Cravero
Eduardo Kac LIVING WORKS June 10th – September 25th, 2011 The first exhibition in Italy dedicated to the controversial figure of Eduardo Kac (Rio de Janeiro, 1962; he lives in Chicago). His research...
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From the Technological Herbarium, by Gianna Maria Gatti – Giardino Cablato...
Gianna Maria Gatti: (translated from the Italian by Alan N. Shapiro) The digital images of flowers, fields, and gardens created by Pietro Mussini at the computer do not constitute the work in itself,...
View ArticleThe Car of the Future, by Alan N. Shapiro and Alan Cholodenko
co-author: 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...
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Towards a Unified Existential Science of Humans and Androids, by Alan N. Shapiro
I just returned from Ars Electronica in Linz, Austria. This is a comment about the talk about androids given by Hiroshi Ishiguro during the “Science & Art I” conference at the Lentos Kunstmuseum...
View ArticleRe-Thinking Science, by Alan N. Shapiro
Re-Thinking Science, by Alan N. Shapiro Influenced by Martin Heidegger’s philosophical essay “The Question Concerning Technology”, Theodor W. Adorno and Max Horkheimer’s core Critical Theory text...
View ArticleInterview with AVINUS Press about The Technological Herbarium
AVINUS Press (Anabelle Assaf): Worum geht es im Technologischen Herbarium? (Kunst? Technologie? Natur? Informatik?) Welche Art von Kunstwerken hat die Autorin gewählt, und was macht diese so besonders?...
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From The Technological Herbarium, by Gianna Maria Gatti – Nerve Garden by...
Gianna Maria Gatti: (translated from the Italian by Alan N. Shapiro) (this chapter of The Techological Herbarium was substantially rewritten for the English edition by Alan N. Shapiro, with the...
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From The Technological Herbarium, by Gianna Maria Gatti – Interactive Plant...
Gianna Maria Gatti: (translated from the Italian by Alan N. Shapiro) *Interactive Plant Growing* interactive computer installation* (c) 1993, Christa Sommerer & Laurent Mignonneau** permanent...
View ArticleStar Trek: Technologies of Disappearance, by Alan N. Shapiro
written by Alan N. Shapiro published by AVINUS Press ISBN-10: 3930064162 ISBN-13: 978-3930064168 Our society dreams of making Star Trek’s technologies real. University scientists, computer...
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