Themes:
Anticipation/Anticipatory Systems | Human-Computer Interaction | Post-Industrial/Post-literacy
Digital Technology | Art and Design | Mind | Visualization | Semiotics | Miscellaneous

• Anticipation and Intuition:
  a new rational foundation for design, School of Industrial Design, University of Guanajuato, Mexico, April 15, 2005
  
  Digital Foundations of Design.
  Class lectures presented at Helwan University, Cairo, Egypt, January-February 2001
  
  
• One cannot NOT Interact >> HTML
  (The Future is Here) Workshop: Semiotic Approaches to User Interface Design, The Hague, 2 April 2000
  
  
• Anticipation- A Challenge >> HTML >> PDF
  Memoria Futura: Kulturelles Erbe und Informationstechnologie: eine neue Perspektive?
  Bonn, 12 December 1999
  
  
• Art and Computers: Directions
  College of Fine Arts, University of Arizona, Tucson, 8 April 1999
  
  
• The original is better than the reproduction
  Retrospctive Exhibit: Manfred Mohr - Algorithmic Works. Josef Albers Museum, Bottrop, Germany,
  29 March 1998
  
  
• From language to languages
  The Language of the Object, symposium held at the Munich Design Center, Germany, 5 November 1997
  
  
• Art in Cybercity
  Second International City Planning Conference, Xanten, Germany, 12-14 March 1997
  
  
• Behind us the darkness/Between us the rift
  VISCOM Visiting Artist Series, Maryland Institute, College of Art, Baltimore MD, 19 September 1996
  
  
• The Daemon of Progress
  Inaugural lecture for the chair of Computational Design, University of Wuppertal, 3 November 1994
  
  
• Cognitive Aesthetics, or Bursting the chrysalis to become a butterfly
  College of Fine Arts, HBK, Braunschweig, 11 November 1993
  
  
• UI's in the Post-Romantic Age of Computation, 1993 >> HTML
  
  
• The Bearable Impertinence of Rationality, >> HTML
  keynote address, Interface II, Weltbilder/Bildwelten (an International Symposium in the framework of the first MULTIMEDIALE) Hamburg, 5-7 February 1993
  
  
• The more things change... Creativity in the context of scientific and technological change
  University of Michigan, School of Art, Ann Arbor, 21 January 1993
  
  
• Algorithmic and Non-Algorithmic Aspects of Design
  University of Wuppertal, School of Design, Wuppertal, 30 October 1992
  
  
• Another Tale/Tail Wagging the Dog
  (concluding address) GDEA Annual Conference (Interactive Multimedia), University of Iowa, Ames, 2 November 1991
  
  
• Art Experience and Knowledge
  Department of Art and Art Professions, SEHNAP, New York University, 26 April 1991
  
  
• Aesthetics and Techno-Aesthetics. Science and Art
  Kunst und Technologie-Ästhetik im Wandel (Art and Technology-Changing Aesthetics), Braunschweig State Museum, Germany, 16 January 1991
  
  
• Intelligence for Animation >>HTML
  20th Annual National Conference of the Information Science Society of Germany, Stuttgart, 8-12 October 1990
  
  
• The Significance of Semiotics for Designers
  Graduate Seminar, School of the Arts, Department of Communication Arts and Design, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, 30 March 1990
  
  
• The Mind of the Designer
  School of the Arts, Department of Communication Arts and Design, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, 29 March 1990
  
  
• A Little Bit of Fractals, a Lot of Chaos
  School of Visual Arts, Parsons School of Design, New York City, 23 October 1989
  
  
• The Politics of Perception in Art, Design, and Technology
  National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC, 7 May 1989
  
  
• Creativity and Design Intelligence
  School of Design, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, 15 March 1989
  
  
• Computing and Its Real Significance for the Arts
  Visual Arts Department, University of California at San Diego, 8 February 1989
  
  
• Science and Beauty
  Visual Arts Department, University of California at San Diego, 7 February 1989
  
  
• Emergent Aesthetics: Aesthetic issues in computer art
  First International Symposium on Electronic Art, Utrecht, Holland, 27-30 September 1988
  
  
• Design theory from a computational perspective (keynote address)
  National Conference of Graphic Design Educators Association, Chicago, 24-26 June 1988
  
  
• The digital Eye/I
  Photography: The Second Revolution (symposium), Columbus OH, 21-22 April 1988
  
  
• Ars ex Machina Revisited
  Graduate Studies Seminar, Faculty of Arts and Letters, SUNY-Buffalo, 4 December 1987
  
  
• Image Machine
  (keynote address) Ars Electronica, International conference and computer art competition, Linz, Austria, 16-21 September 1987
  
  
• Design Intelligence
  (keynote address) AIGA National Conference, San Francisco CA, 4-7 September 1987
  The common denominator: Is there such a thing?
  
  
• The Cognitive Condition of Design
  (symposium sponsored by the OSU College of the Arts, Battelle Memorial Institute, RichardsonSmith, Inc.), Columbus OH, 26-27 March 1987
  
  
• Art & Computers Bilder/Images Digital
  (keynote address) 25 Years of Computer Art, Munich, Germany, 24 October 1986
  
  
• Kunst und Computer (Art and Computers)
  Essen University, Germany, May 8, 1986
  
  
• Interactivity: on computer art and design
  William A. Kern Institute Professorship in Communication, Rochester Institute of Technology, NY,
  16 March 1983
  
  
• The computer's challenge to art-arts challenge to the computer
  Art Institute of Boston, 16 October 1982
  
  
• Ten commandments for the designer using computers
  Technology and the Creative Process, The Designer and the Technology Revolution. The Design Schools and the Rochester Institute of Technology, NY, 13-15 May 1982