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PLING FÄLLT – A SURREAL NARRATIVE
Publisher: KDP
Pages: 90
Language: English & German
Year: 2024
ISBN-10 : 3949345043
ISBN-13 : 978-3949345043
Format: E-Book, paperback
The English edition will be published in 2025!
CYBIONIC TRILOGY
“Fascinating near-future sci-fi trilogy about the symbiosis of humans and algorithmic intelligence.”
“A border crossing between reality and science fiction.”
CYBIONIC – DER UNAUFLÖSBARE REST
Publisher: Polarise
Pages: 390
Language: German
Year: 2023
ISBN-10 : 3949345043
ISBN-13 : 978-3949345043
Format: E-Book, paperback, Audiobook
The lonely mountains of the old world are Liv’s home. From here, she and a small group of resistance fighters combat against the ever-expanding Floatland, where humans and artificial intelligences seem to live together in harmony and prosperity. When Liv loses contact with her fellow fighters, she decides to infiltrate Floatland on her own to find her mother’s murderers and understand the secret of her own existence.
CYBIONIC – DIE UNAUFHALTSAME EINHEIT
Publisher: Polarise
Pages: 400
Language: Deutsch
Year: 2022
ISBN-10 : 3949345043
ISBN-13 : 978-3949345043
Formats: E-Book, Paperback, Audiobook
The young geneticist Fleur van Hevinga discovers a series of unusual genetic mutations in her patients at the Rotterdam University Hospital. At the same time, inexplicable computer problems and serious accidents are occurring in the city. One night, a strange man appears at her door and claims that she will play a key role in the inexplicable developments. He suggests that they work together to find out what is causing the mutations, but Fleur hesitates. Can she trust the stranger?
CYBIONIC – DER UNABWENDBARE ANFANG
Publisher: Polarise
Pages: 318
Sprache: Deutsch
Year: 2021
ISBN-10 : 3947619960
ISBN-13 : 978-3947619962
Formats: E-Book, Paperback, Audiobook
„Reality is only a possibility“ is written on a beer mat that Sala finds on the desk of his missing sister Ksen. At that moment, his seemingly normal student life in Berlin turns into an eerie search. His sister, a highly intelligent computer science student, has left only one confusing trace: the old portrait photo of a young woman.
Sala reconstructs this woman’s life and learns that Ksen was researching AI and self-learning algorithms before she disappeared. Why did she keep her work secret from him? What does she have in common with the woman in the photo?
The more Sala finds out, the faster the inexplicable incidents pile up: mysterious entries appear in a blog, a cell phone explodes in his hand and he can’t shake the feeling that he is being watched at all times and everywhere. Who or what wants to stop Sala from finding Ksen and uncovering the truth?
PYJAMOCRACY – HOW SNAPSHOTS CONFUSE OUR LIVES
Verlag: AKV StJoost – Research Group Photography
ISBN / EAN 978-90-76861-21-0
Jahr: 2008
Sprache: Englisch
Format: Publication & Video Installation
For the first time in history the majority of all published images is made by amateurs. On December 30, 2006 I saw the execution of Saddam Hussein, probably like everybody who watches news on TV or surfs the Internet regularly. The next morning the same pictures were also lying on my doormat, published on the first page of my daily newspaper. It was almost impossible to avoid them. What fascinated me most about those images was not the following discussion whether it is bad taste or ethnically incorrect to show pictures like that, but simply the fact that those pictures were made by a mobile phone of an anonymous attendee during the execution, and that they rapidly started their way into living rooms worldwide via the Internet.
This marked a new epoch of images for me: the epoch in which amateur snapshots finally intervene with an until then unknown vehemence into power-struggles, news, professional propaganda and thereby the human perception of reality. There had been other incidents before when amateur footage was used in the traditional media, for example the pictures from the Abu Ghraib prison, a snapshot of the murdered Theo van Gogh, 9/11, the London tube bombing and other terror attacks. But the exclusivity and the impact of the Saddam pictures caught my attention. Were those pictures really made and put online secretly, and so leaked into the traditional media and our consciousness seemingly incidentally, or were they actually commissioned and just a smart part of the official propaganda strategy? They look like typical amateur images, but maybe they aren’t. We will probably never know.
Projects & More
What else I do.
Epic Edge Lab
The human mind and narratives are closely linked. Stories help humans to understand themselves and others. On this website you will find more information about my ongoing research on the interaction between narratives and human consciousness. Due to experiments in fictional and immersive storytelling I am contributing insights to one of the last big miracles that science is still trying to decipher – the human consciousness.
Piet Zwart Institute
Lecturer for storytelling in the Master Design Research course.
Art & Mediaprojects
Here you can find a selection of different art and media projects that I have (co-)initiated since 2010.
about me
Meike Eggers
I am fascinated by today’s fragmented reality and its influence on the human psyche and society. My novels mostly take place in the gray area between fact, fantasy and manipulation. I am interested in topics such as constructivism, surrealism and the idea of a narrative identity.
In addition to my writing, I work in various creative disciplines in multimedia projects that combine traditional documentary techniques such as video, photography or interviews to explore the way humans perceive reality and define truth.
As co-founder of the Epic Edge Lab, I develop creative methods that use writing and narrative techniques to improve complex concepts and multi-layered visions of the future.
I am also a lecturer in storytelling in the Master’s program in Design Research at the Piet Zwart Institute in Rotterdam, the city where I live.
References
What others say
Grandioses Buch, das mich absolut in den Bann gezogen hat.
Sonja 1997 über Cybionic, Amazon
Rasant und topaktuell.
Trollchen über Cybionic, LovelyBook
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- PitchMein Sommer steht ganz im Zeichen des Schreibens, Lernens und Vernetzens: Ich nehme an einigen Kursen und einer Masterclass rund um die Themen Publishing, Literaturagenturen und Buchmarketing teil. Keine trockene Theorie – auf meinem Schreibtisch liegt ein frisch fertig gestelltes Manuskript, und ich will es noch einmal aus einer anderen Perspektive genau unter die Lupe nehmen, bevor es hoffentlich bald in den Bücherregalen steht.
- Neuerscheinung: Pling fällt – Eine surreale ErzählungAb sofort auf Amazon erhältlich. ISBN: 9798304768429115 Seiten mit Zeichnungen Klappentext: Solange Pling sich erinnert, bleibt auch Vita bei uns. Dem schleichenden und unaufhaltsamen Vergessen zum Trotz erzählen zwölf gravierende Momente aus ihrem Leben, das gelenkt wird durch außergewöhnliche Talente, ihrer warmen und doch unscheinbaren Liebe zu Victor und zu den Dingen dieser Welt, die„Neuerscheinung: Pling fällt – Eine surreale Erzählung“ weiterlesen
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