Alan N. Shapiro (Germany/USA)

Alan N. Shapiro is an American expatriate living in Germany. Alan holds a Ph.D. in artistic and media research from the University of Oldenburg. His most recent book Decoding Digital Culture with Science Fiction: Hyper-Modernism, Hyperreality, and Posthumanism will be published by the Transcript Verlag in June 2024. Previously he published the books Star Trek: Technologies of Disappearance, The Software of the Future, Transdisciplinary Design, and The Technological Herbarium (on new media art). He teaches media theory at the University of the Arts, Bremen and “future design research” at the University of Applied Arts and Sciences, Lucerne, Switzerland. He was previously Professor of Heterotopia at the Folkwang University of the Arts, Essen. He is currently writing his auto-socio-biography called Venice in Las Vegas. He considers himself to be primarily a “science fiction theorist.”