1976 - 1981 |
Lecturer for "Theory of Form" and |
1981 - 1984 |
Visiting professor for Design and Art education at the Hochschule für Angewandte Kunst in Vienna |
1981 |
Visiting professor at the College of Art and Design, Halifax, Canada |
1979/80 |
Visiting professor for "Media art" and |
1981 |
lecturer for "Perception theory" and |
1982 - 1985 |
Professor for photography at the Gesamthochschule Kassel |
1984 - 1989 |
Associate Professor for Video and Digital Arts, Center for Media Study, State University of New York at Buffalo |
1989 - 1994 |
Director of the Institut für Neue Medien at the Staedelschule in Frankfurt/M. |
since 1984 |
Professor for Visual Media Art at the University of Applied Arts Vienna |
1986 - 1995 |
Artistic advisor and since 1992 artistic director of the Ars Electronica in Linz / Austria |
1993 - 1998 |
Chief curator of the Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum in Graz / Austria |
1993 - 1999 |
Austrian commissioner of the Biennale di Venezia |
1997 |
Awarded with the "Siemens Medienkunstpreis" |
since 1999 |
Chairman and CEO of the ZKM/Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe / Germany |
2002 |
Awarded with the "Große Ehrenzeichen für Verdienste um die Republik Österreich" |
2004 |
Awarded with the "Käthe Kollwitz Preis" |
2007 |
Granting of an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Art and Design Helsinki |
2008 |
Artistic Director of the Biennial of Sevilla, Biacs3 |
2008 |
Awarded with the French Order " Officier dans l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres" (Order of Arts and Literature) |
2009 |
Awarded with the "Friedlieb Ferdinand Runge-Preis uer unkonventionelle Kunstvermittlung" of Stiftung Preussische Seehandlung |
2009 |
Awarded with the "Verdienstmedaille des Landes Baden-Wuerttemberg" |
2009 |
Appointed as full member of the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts Munich |
2009 |
Appointed as full member of the Nordrhein-Westfälischen Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Künste Düsseldorf |
2009 |
Awarded with the "Europäischer Kultur-Projektpreis" of the European Foundation for Culture |
2009 – 2012 |
Visiting Professor at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia |
2010 |
Awarded with the "Österreichisches Ehrenkreuz für Wissenschaft und Kunst 1. Klasse" |
2011 |
Artistic Director of the Fourth Moscow Biennial of Contemporary Art |
2013 |
Granting of an Honorary Doctorate from the University Pécs, Hungary |
2013 |
Appointed as Active Member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts Salzburg |
2014 |
Awarded with the "Oskar Kokoschka Prize" |
2015 |
Appointed as member of the Russian Academy of Arts Moscow |
From 2015 |
Curator of the "lichtsicht 5 – Projection Biennale" in Bad Rothenfelde |