Shapiro has contributed many essays to the journal of technology and society NoemaLab — on technological art,[11] software theory,[12] Computer Science 2.0,[13] futuristic design,[14] the political philosophy of the information society,[15] and Baudrillard and the Situationists.[16]
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.[17]
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)[18] and Karlsruhe;[19] at the Institute of Time-Based Media at the University of the Arts, Berlin;[20]atDomus Academy of Design and Fashion in Milan;[21] and at ABADIR Design Academy in Catania.[22]
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.[23]
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.
Shapiro is also a software developer, with nearly 20 years industry experience in C++ and Java development. He has worked on several projects for Volkswagen, Deutsche Bahn (DB Systel), and media and telecommunications companies. [citation needed]
Shapiro is the editor and translator of The Technological Herbarium by Gianna Maria Gatti, a groundbreaking book about technological art.[24] He has three contributions to the innovative book on social choreography Framemakers: Choreography as an Aesthetics of Change[25] edited by Jeffrey Gormly.
He has chapters in the books Design und Mobilität: wie werden wir bewegt sein? (2019),[28]Nevertheless: Manifestos and Digital Culture (2018),[29]Searching for Heterotopia (2019),[30] and Tracelation (2018).[31]
Shapiro has published several widely cited essays on the disaster of Donald Trump in relation to hyper-modernism.[32][33][34] In 2019, he published an influential essay on Dialogical Artificial Intelligence in the magazine of the German national cultural foundation.[35] He has lectured several times on the meaning of Patrick McGoohan's TV show The Prisoner.[36]
The 2017 Audi Annual Report features a discussion about the impact of AI on society between Shapiro, Audi CEO Rupert Stadler, and David Hanson of Hanson Robotics, Hong Kong.
Shapiro has also been featured as a thinker by Bertellsmann in "We Magazine",[37] by Deutsche Bank in "Economy Stories,"[38] and in the technology and fashion print magazine WU (Milan).[39]
the Quadraga University "Transform Your Business" conference in Berlin (2018),
the Swiss National Additive Manufacturing conference in Lucerne (2018).[53]
How to Regulate the Media When They Are Ubiquitous and Have Gone Viral: From Utopian Science Fiction to Practical European Policy, Angela Merkel team-organized EU conference “Media in the Digital Society,” Berlin, July 2020.
In July 2012, Shapiro gave the International Flusser Lecture at the Vilém Flusser Archive, Institute for Time-Based Media, University of the Arts, Berlin.[54]
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.[55]
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.[56]
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.[57]
In July 2020, Shapiro was the keynote speaker at the European Union conference on "Media in the Digital Society," giving a talk entitled "How to Regulate the Media when they are ubiquitous and have gone viral: from utopian science fiction to practical European policy."[58]
In October 2020, Shapiro was featured on the 3Sat German TV program Kulturzeit, as part of their 25th anniversary Zeitwende show, talking about Science Fiction as a utopian model of thinking.[59]
Technological Anarchism, Watergenics, Berlin, November 2022.
In a 10-page review-essay of his book Star Trek: Technologies of Disappearance, the journal Science Fiction Studies called his book one of the most original works in the field of science fiction theory.[60] See also the extensive discussions of Star Trek: Technologies of Disappearance in Csicsery-Ronay's major reference work on science fiction studies,[61]inThe Routledge Companion to Science Fiction[62] and in The Yearbook of English Studies.[63]
Shapiro was accepted at age 15 as an undergraduate student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He studied at MIT for 2 years. He received his B.A. from Cornell University, where he studied government and European Intellectual History. He has an M.A. in sociology from New York University (NYU) and a Ph.D. in Artistic and Media Research from the Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg.
Shapiro's thinking was shaped very much by his participation in the student movement in Bologna, Italy in the late 1970s.
Shapiro has lived almost exactly half of his life in the United States (32 years), and half in Europe (36 years—mostly in Germany, but also some years in Italy, Switzerland and France).
^Csicsery-Ronay, Istvan, Jr., The Seven Beauties of Science Fiction (Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2008), 136-138
^Mark Bould, Andrew M. Butler, Adam Roberts, and Sherryl Vint, eds., The Routledge Companion to Science Fiction (Routledge Literature Companions) (New York: Routledge, 2009), 228-234 passim, 370-372,
