Alan N. Shapiro
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| Born |
23 April 1956 Brooklyn, New York |
| Nationality | United States |
| Fields | Science fiction studies, Media theory, Technological art, Social choreography, Artificial intelligence, Transdiciplinary design |
| Alma mater |
MIT Cornell University New York University |
| Known for | Changed public perceptions of Star Trek, Changed public perceptions of Baudrillard |
| Influences | Baudrillard, Derrida, Virilio, Camus |
Alan N. Shapiro (born 23 April 1956 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American science fiction and media theorist. He is a lecturer and essayist in the fields of science fiction studies, media theory, French philosophy, technological art, sociology of culture, social choreography, software theory, robotics, artificial intelligence, and futuristic and transdisciplinary design. Shapiro's book and other published writings on Star Trek have contributed to a change in public perception about the importance of Star Trek for contemporary culture. His published essays on Jean Baudrillard - especially in the International Journal of Baudrillard Studies - have contributed to a change in public perception about the importance of Baudrillard's work for culture, philosophy, sociology, and design.
Shapiro has co-developed many of the core ideas of the emerging field of social choreography, contributing many essays to the field's most important journal, Choreograph.net. He is a founding member of the Institute for Social Choreography in Frankfurt. He has also contributed many essays to the journal of technology and society NoemaLab — on technological art, software theory, Computer Science 2.0, futuristic design, and the political philosophy of the information society,.
In 2010-2011, Shapiro lectured on "The Car of the Future" at Transmediale in Berlin, Germany, and on robots and androids at Ars Electronica. In September 2011, Shapiro gave a major speech at the Plektrum Festival in Tallinn, Estonia on "The Meaning of Life." Since 2011, Shapiro has been keynote speaker at several conferences: "Knowledge of the Future" at the University of Vienna (2011), BOBCATSSS conference on Information Management of the organization of European university libraries (2012), IEEE Conference on the Information Society in London (2012), ISI International Symposium of Information Science, University of Applied Sciences in Potsdam (2013), retune Creative Technology conference in Berlin (2013), Alig'Art Festival on Sustainability in Cagliari (2014), the conference on interactive media and utopia at Jagiellonian University, Krakow (2014), and the conference on hyper-modernism at the National Center of Scientific Research, Paris (2016). In July 2012, Shapiro gave the International Flusser Lecture at the Vilém Flusser Archive, Institute for Time-Based Media, University of the Arts, Berlin. In October 2016, Shapiro gave a lecture on artificial intelligence and science fiction at the BASE Cultural Center, Milan that was attended by 350 people.
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