Alan N. Shapiro

Quick Facts

Full Name	Alan N. Shapiro
Occupation	Essayist
Date Of Birth	Apr 23, 1956(1956-04-23)
Age	68
Birthplace	Brooklyn
Country	United States
Birth City	New York
Horoscope	Taurus

Alan N. Shapiro Biography

Alan N. Shapiro is one of the most popular and richest Essayist who was born on April 23, 1956 in Brooklyn, New York, United States.

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),, the conference on hyper-modernism at the National Center of Scientific Research, Paris (2016), the conference on art and politics in Italy, and the conference on transdisciplinary design, at the Folkwang University of the Arts, Essen (2017), the Zurich Design Biennale (2017), the Quadraga University “Transform Your Business” conference in Berlin (2018), and the Swiss National Additive Manufacturing conference in Lucerne (2018) . 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. In 2018, Shapiro spoke at the MACRO Museum of Contemporary Art in Rome, and at Pratt Institute of Design in Brooklyn, NY. In August 2019, Shapiro gave a lecture on Baudrillard in French at the renowned Cerisy-la- Salle cultural center in Normandy. In February 2020, Shapiro gave a lecture on “Body, Self and Code in Hypermodernism” at the Schaubühne theater in Berlin that was attended by 450 people, as part of the Streitraum series of events moderated by Carolin Emcke.

Shapiro has been visiting professor in the Department of Film and New Media at the NABA (Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti) University of Arts and Design in Milan. He has also been a lecturer at the Goethe University in Frankfurt, at the Art and Design Universities in Offenbach (where he taught creative coding and futuristic design from 2012 to 2015) and Karlsruhe; at the Institute of Time-Based Media at the University of the Arts, Berlin; at Domus Academy of Design and Fashion in Milan; and at ABADIR Design Academy in Catania. From October 2015 to September 2017, Shapiro was Visiting Professor of Transdisciplinary Design in the Department of Industrial Design at the Folkwang University of the Arts, Essen. Since October 2017, Shapiro is a lecturer in media theory at the Art University of Bremen, and teaches “design and informatics” at the University of Applied Sciences, Lucerne, Switzerland.

Alan N. Shapiro Net Worth

Alan N. Shapiro is one of the richest Essayist from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Alan N. Shapiro 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

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, posthumanism, French philosophy, creative coding, 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.

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