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

• Web Appliances
  Hewlett Packard Research Group, Palo Alto CA, 11 May 1999
  
  
• Computational Design: what it is, why it is necessary, what it does >>HTML
  Stanford Seminar on People, Computers and Design, Stanford University, 16 April 1999
  
  
• Art and Computers: Directions
  College of Fine Arts, University of Arizona, Tucson, 8 April 1999
  
  
• Digital Knowledge Communication
  Envisioning Knowledge – The Knowledge Society and the New Media, 3rd International Congress of the Academy for the Third Millennium, Burda Media, Munich, 3-4 February 1999
  
  
• The Interesting as an Aim of Computation. A Journey in Aesthetic Space >>PDF
  (Das interessante als computationale Zielsetzung. Ein Ausflug im ästhetischen Raum).
  Celebration Colloquium: Homage to Frieder Nake on the Occasion of his 60th Birthday, Department of Computer Science, University of Bremen, 16 December 1998
  
  
• Between Data and Display >>PDF
  3rd Visualization Workshop, Bits-Images-Meaning (Bits-Bilder-Bedeutung) Research Group, University of Paderborn, 27 November 1998
  
  
• What Kind of Sign is a Bit? >>HTML
  Semiotics and the Information Sciences, Victoria College, University of Toronto, 13-15 October 1998
  
  
• Interactive Multimedia Navigation >>HTML >>PDF
  (with C. Lango) >> lCVIR Workshop (Content Visualization and Intermedia Representations), University of Montreal, Canada, 15 August 1998
  
  
• Navigation tools for interactive multimedia information transfer: Bits-Images-Meaning
  Joint Research Group (Efficient Algorithms for Discrete Problems and their applications, and Program for Structural Formation Processes) University of Bielefeld, 20 November 1997
  
  
• Concepts of Visualization
  Institute for Media Studies, Cologne, Germany, 28 May 1997
  
  
• Imaging Science: Challenges for the Future
  Rochester Institute of Technology, NY, 19 May 1997
  
  
• Information Technology and Human Development
  the Institute for Information and Media Sciences, University of Aarhus, Denmark, 9 November 1996
  
  
• World-Wide Web as Innovative Marketing Tool
  Chamber of Commerce, Wuppertal-Solingen-Remscheid, 22 May 1996
  
  
• World-Wide Web and Multimedia
  Deutsche Kommunikations Gesellschaft (German Communications Society), Wuppertal, 21 May 1996
  
  
• The Computer as Semiotic Machine
  Dagstuhl International Seminar and Research Center for Information Science, Germany, 19-23 February 1996
  
  
• Computational Design
  Graduate Program in Computer Science, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, 7 March 1995
  
  
• The Daemon of Progress
  Inaugural lecture for the chair of Computational Design, University of Wuppertal, 3 November 1994
  
  
• Ubiquitous computing and the factory of the future
  Factory of the Future, organized by the Technology Center of the city of Solingen and the Industrial Design Department of BUGH-Wuppertal, Solingen, 20 October 1994
  
  
• Making the Future Happen (Interactively!)
  Graduate Program, School of Visual Arts, New York, 14 April 1992
  
  
• Another Tale/Tail Wagging the Dog
  (concluding address) GDEA Annual Conference (Interactive Multimedia), University of Iowa, 2 November 1991
  
  
• A conceptual framework for human-machine interaction
  International Interactive Communication Society, New York, 14 November 1990
  
  
• Intelligence for Animation >> HTML
  20th Annual National Conference of the Information Science Society of Germany, Stuttgart, 8-12 October 1990
  
  
• 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
  
  
• Kommunikation und Erkenntnis (Communication and Knowledge)
  Lecture series on communication theory and electronic media, University of Essen, Germany,
  24 January 1989
  
  
• Implementing intelligent processors >> PDF old Version >> PDF
  Proceedings of the Second Eurographics Workshop on Intelligent CAD Systems – Implementational Issues (with M. Novak). Veldhoven: Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica, 1988, pp. 281-302
  
  
• Vom digitalen Wissen zur Computerkunst (From digital knowledge to computer art)
  Foundations Lecture Series, Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe, Germany, 6 April 1988
  
  
• Design Machine. Conceptual Framework >> PDF
  (with M. Novak) First Eurographics Workshop on Intelligent CAD Systems. Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica, Noordwigkerhout, Holland, 21-24 April 1987
  
  
• Design and Computer Graphic Arts
  (Focus Seminar: Computer Graphic Arts Directions), Computer Graphic Arts 86/87, Pratt Center for Computer Graphics in Design, New York, 7-10 December 1986
  
  
• Graphic Arts Systems and Software (Forecast Panel)
  Computer Graphic Arts 86/87, Pratt Center for Computer Graphics in Design, New York,
  7-10 December 1986
  
  
• G-pictures: Elements of a probabilistic pictorial grammar >> PDF
  Computer and Information Science Lectures and Seminars, Ohio State University, Columbus, 29 May 1986
  
  
• Rechenanlagen als Darstellungsmittel (Computers as Means of Representation)
  Bremen University, Germany, 15 May 1986
  
  
• Electronic tools for graphic designers: How do we integrate them in studios and education programs?
  Keynote address, STA Spring Conference: Finding Order in Chaos, Chicago, 11-13 April 1986
  
  
• The Aesthetics of Computer Graphics
  12th Annual Conference on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques, SIGGRAPH 85, San Francisco, 25 July 1985
  
  
• Art and Design with Computers: the need for interdisciplinarity
  Mellon Seminar on Artificial Intelligence, Fairleigh Dickinson University, Rutherford NJ, 19 March 1985
  
  
• Can the analytic engine run the art machine? Computers in Art and Design
  Battelle Endowment for Technology and Human Affairs (Engineering & Art), Columbus OH, February, 1985
  
  
• Aesthetic Criteria for Computer Graphics
  Computer Graphics in Art Education (seminar), Ohio State University, Columbus, February, 1985
  
  
• The Aesthetics of Computer Graphics
  (panel discussion), 1st Meeting of the Association for Computer Art & Design Education, St. Paul MN, 18-21 July 1984
  
  
• The Expansion of Creativity vs. Canned Art
  (keynote address) 1st Meeting of the Association for Computer Art & Design Education (ACADE), St. Paul MN, 18-21 July 1984
  
  
• Design as Interface
  University of Essen, Germany, 9 July 1984
  
  
• How soft should software be?
  (keynote address) Communication in the Post-Industrial Age, Rochester Institute of Technology, NY,
  25-27 April 1984
  
  
• Text and symbol in teletext and videotext: their potential
  School of Art, Yale University, New Haven CT, 29 January 1983