• Director, Institute for Research in Anticipatory Systems
  Ashbel Smith Professor in Interactive Arts, Technology, and Computer Science,
  University of Texas at Dallas School of Arts and Humanities, since summer 2004
  
  
• Senior Fellow, Pell Center for International Relations and Public Policy, Salve Regina University, Newport, RI, 2004
  
  
• Researcher, project leader, and organizer of the symposium Recollections – The best is yet to come.
  25 Years Computer Science at the University of Bremen. Project, April-October 2003;
  Symposium, with interactive computer presentations of student work, 9 October 2003
  
  
• Director, BISC Special Interest Group in Anticipatory Computing, Berkeley Initiative in Soft Computing,
  University of California-Berkeley, since 2002
  
  
• Director, Anticipation-the end is where we start from. Project presented at the Open House, Ab in die Mitte,
  University of Wuppertal, Germany, 25-26 October 2001
  
  
• Panel moderator: Is today's educational system still appropriate in the Third Millennium?
  (Passt unsere Ausbildung an den Hochschulen noch fü r das dritte Jahrtausend?), 11 May 2001;
  
  
• Where is Design Heading? Will the future be all digital?
  (Wohin geht's mit dem "Designen"? Zukunftserwartungen: Digitales auf der ganzen Front?), 12 May 2001;
  At World Congress for Stage Design, Showtech Messe, Berlin, 10-13 May 2001
  
  
• Concept for a design program at Stanford University
  (with C. Byrnes, H. Dubberly, N. Felde, J. Faris, P. Pangaro) April-June 1999.
  
  
• Organizer of the Section Semiotics: the conceptual engine of the digital revolution at the VII World Congress
  of the International Association of Semiotic Studies, Dresden, October 1999.
  
  
• Member of Perception/Art Conversation , Getty Research Center for the History of Art and the Humanities.
  A discussion among experts in cognition, semiotics, the arts, engineering, and communication in preparation for
  the Getty Program 2001-2002: Perception, Experience, Judgment. Los Angeles CA, 5-6 May 1999.
  
  
• Introduction and moderation of panel discussion Form Interacts with Function:
  Concepts for customer-oriented multimedia design ; and Panel member, Learning with Multimedia Technology:
  What kind of education do we need? At 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.
  
  
• Organizer, International Colloquium: From Bauhaus to Thinkhouse , and Digital Design 2000+ ,
  premiere Webcast ,1-3 December 1998.
  
  
• Collaboration with WDR (the largest state television network in Germany) in the field of virtual sets,
  since February 1998.
  
  
• Participant in round-table discussion on methods and means for science and technology transfer from
  institutions of higher learning to the industry, NRW Ministery of Science and Education, December 1997.
  
  
• Co-founder of @computational design, a company for new media and Internet applications based on
  knowledge and technology transfer provided through the university program I established.
  (A cooperative arrangement between the university and the company defines the means and methods for
  the transfer.) @computational design provides services and development, integrating programming and
  design in new concepts for multimedia communication and world wide Web transactions.
  
  
• Organized and incorporated Head of Design, a not-for-profit association in support of the Design Program at
  the University of Wuppertal, June 1997.
  
  
• Multimedia Forum, Digital Dissemination of Knowledge - Cognitive Aspects of Visualization.
  Cologne, Germany, 8-11 June 1997.
  
  
• Member of jury for Design Innovation 96: Communication, Media, and Recreational Technology,
  Design Zentrum NRW, 20 February 1997.
  
  
• World-Wide Web and Multimedia, Session for Communication Association of Germany, May, 1996.
  
  
• Advisor for the overseas Ph.D. program of the Egyptian Ministry of Education, since 1996.
  
  
• Organized Internet Session for the Chamber of Commerce of the of Bergisches Land District,
  Germany, 22 May 1996.
  
  
• Co-director (with Frieder Nake, Peter Andersen) of the conference on Information Science and Semiotics , at the Dagstuhl International Seminar and Research Center for Information Science, Germany, 19-23 February 1996.
  
  
• Organizer, Nationwide Alias/Wavefront User Group Meeting (Theme: 3-D Design),
  Wuppertal, Germany, 21-22 September 1995.
  
  
• Initiator and Director, Center for Competence, Wuppertal, Germany. Applications for multimedia,
  network technology, and CAD for business, industry, education, medicine, since 1995.
  
  
• Campus partner with Alias/Wavefront. Designed complete courseware for Alias V.6.0, Alias V.7.0,
  and Alias V.8.0 Design and Animation, 1994-1998.
  
  
• Member of Editorial Board of Real-Time Imaging , an international journal of fundamental multidisciplinary
  imaging technologies and application areas, London: Academic Press, since 1993.
  
  
• Speaker at The Bearable Lightness of the Sign , an international symposium in commemoration of Max Bense;
  the foundation of information aesthetics and its application in computer graphics.
  With the participation of Ivan Illich, Roger Penrose, Peter Weibel. Hamburg, 5-7 February 1993.
  
  
• Chairman of session Peirce and Manifestations of the Mind (Artificial Intelligence),
  Charles S. Peirce Sesquicentennial International Congress, Harvard University, 8 September 1989.
  
  
• Initiator and organizer of the Fashion Institute of Technology Art and Design Lecture Series
  (among speakers: Geoffrey Beene, Lou Dorfsman, Tom Hoving, Pamela McCorduck, Leslie Wexner, Himan Brown),
  1989-1991.
  
  
• Initiator and organizer of symposium, Photography: The Second Revolution , Columbus, OH, 21-22 April 1988.
  
  
• Organizer of exhibit of David Hockney's works (special show made available by the artist),
  Columbus Museum of Art, April 1988.
  
  
• Initiator and organizer of symposium, The Cognitive Condition of Design ,Columbus, OH, 26-27 March 1987.
  
  
• Organizer of and speaker at colloquium Visualization of Complex Data at National Radio Astronomy Laboratory,
  Very Large Array, Socorro, New Mexico, 21 November l986.
  
  
• Initiator and coordinator of Advanced Computing Center for Art and Design, Ohio State University
  (developed idea, parameters, technical aspects, coordinated meetings with similar institutions), 1985-1986.
  
  
• Custodial function: exhibit organizer for paintings of Ion Dreptu, dissident Romanian painter, Van Der Heydt Museum,
  Wuppertal,Germany. February-April, 1986; and Nicolae Gallery, Columbus, OH. October-November, 1986.
  
  
• Workshop Leader: Wo lernen die Professoren die Computerkunst?
  (Where Do Professors Learn the Art of Computers?),
  College of the Arts, University of Essen, Germany, 8 May 1986.
  
  
• Workshop Leader: Computers for Third World Countries , with participation of students and faculty from Egypt,
  Poland, Ivory Coast, Yugoslavia, and representatives of UNESCO, University of Wuppertal, Germany, 7 May 1986.
  
  
• Workshop Leader: Interface Design: A Semiotic Paradigm. Applications on the Leading Edge ;
  4th Annual Pacific Northwest Computer Graphics Conference, University of Oregon Continuation Center, Eugene,
  OR, 27-29 October 1985.
  
  
• Chairman and organizer of panel, The Aesthetics of Computer Graphics , Annual SIGGRAPH Conference,
  San Francisco, 22-26 July 1985.
  
  
• Chairman and organizer of special session, The Semiotics of User-Computer Interface ,
  Ninth Annual Meeting of the Semiotic Society of America, Bloomington, IN, 11-14 October 1984.
  
  
• Member of the Board of Directors and Vice President of the Association for Computer Art and Design Education,
  1984-1985.
  
  
• Exhibit (with Prof. Richard Zakia): The Semiotics of Advertisement ,
  Rochester Institute of Technology, 25-30 April 1984.
  
  
• Organizer of international symposium, Communication in the Post-Industrial Age,
  Rochester Institute of Technology, 25-27 April 1984.
  
  
• Advisor to Graduate Program in Computer Graphics, Rochester Institute of Technology, 1983-1984.
  
  
• Chairman, Committee for Computer Literacy, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, 1981-1985.
  
  
• President, Nadin & Ockerse, Ltd. (consulting for design strategies, visual communication, CAD, problem solving),
  1982-1985.
  
  
• Initiator and co-director of the Annual Workshop in Applied Semiotics, Rhode Island School of Design, 1982-1985.
  
  
• Member of Educom Task Force, since 1982.
  
  
• Established the working group for aesthetics and semiotics at the IX International Congress for Aesthetics,
  Dubrovnik, Yugoslavia, August 1980.
  
  
• Art and Computers, exhibit at the University of Essen (own work included here), 1980.
  
  
• Established Working Group for Semiotic Studies in Theater at the 2nd Congress of the
  International Association of Semiotic Studies, Vienna, July 1979.
  
  
• Translator (texts on philosophy, science, fiction) into Romanian from German, Russian, French, Hungarian,
  1965-1980.
  
  
• Editor of Kodikas/Code-Ars Semeiotica , an international journal of semiotics, 1980-1987.
  
  
• Permanent contributor to Zeitschrift für Semiotik, the journal of the German Society of Semiotics, Berlin.
  
  
• Associate editor, Semiosis, Baden-Baden: Agis Verlag (1977-1979).
  
  
• Organizer of retrospective exhibit, Mattis-Teutsch in the Avantgarde , Friedrich Museum, Cologne, Germany, 1978.
  
  
• Jury member at several international festivals (Annecy Animation Film Festival, Varna, Mamaia).
  
  
• ASTRA Art Shows, a forum for modern art and literature, Brasov, 1976-1978