ongoing:
- lead researcher in the project, Les Immateriaux Research, since 2015; advisor to the Centre Georges Pompidou, project Beyond Matter (2020-2023)
- teaching assignments at Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig, and in the PhD program of Malmö Art Academy/Lund University
- co-founder of the association Les Jardins des Pilotes
past:
- author of „Machine Art in the Twentieth Century“ (MIT-Press, 2016) (interview about the book with Dominik Landwehr, in German)
- co-editor with Yuk Hui of 30 Years after Les Immatériaux – Art, Science, Theory, published in June 2015 (reviewed here)
- curator of Making Visible – Performance, Art, and Anonymity, a reserch project in the context of „Re-Configuring Anonymity“, at Leuphana Universität Lüneburg, 2016-2018
- curator of the Leuphana Arts Program at Leuphana Universität Lüneburg (2011-2018)
- Advisory Board member of the conference series on Media Art Histories (2016-2023)
- teaching assignment at Donau-Universität Krems, Master in Media Art Histories (2015-2022)
- jury member for the Princes Margriet Award for Culture of the European Cultural Foundation in Amsterdam.
- Antrittsvorlesung/Habilitation „‚Indisziplinär‘ und ‚unterbelichtet‘: Die Ausstellung Les Immatériaux und die Kunstwissenschaft“, Wednesday, 25 April 2018, 18:00 Uhr, Leuphana Universität Lüneburg, Raum 40.256 (Zentralgebäude)
- Keynote lecture, „The Machine as Myth“, conference EVAC18, Politics of the Machine, Tuesday 15 May 2018, 18:00 h, Aalborg University, Copenhagen (AC Meyers Vænge 15, 2450 Copenhagen, room 1.008)
- moderation of a panel on The Cultural Commons in the City at Pakhuis de Zwijger in Amsterdam on 14 March 2016.
- spoke about „Research Trajectories for Les Immatériaux“ at 30 Ans après Les Immatériaux at the Centre Pompidou in Paris on Friday 27 November 2015.
- lecture about „Ecology/Machines: The Technologies of Eco Art“ at Renewable Futures conference in Riga/Latvia, October 2015.
- curator of exhibition FAKTUREN – Medien der Wissenschaften, October 2013
- jury member of the VIDA 15 art competition, Madrid, and in conversation about the competition (September 2013)
- lecture about „Four Scenarios for Extended and Encapsulated Bodies (Stelarc, Vilém Flusser, Oswald Wiener, Kazimir Malevich)“ at the Science of Stelarc conference (via online video link) on 19 June 2013
- talks at ars electronica 2012 (on exh. Seiko Mikami, Desire of Code, 30 Aug 2012), and Tinguely Museum Basel (on „Letatlin“ and other utopian flying apparatuses in 20th-century art, 29 Sept 2012)
- interview on media, public space and civil society by Lawrence Bird for Furtherfield (spring 2012)
- curator of the Dick Verdult solo-exhibition ‚and on Sundays we celebrate Friday‘, Van Abbemuseum Eindhoven, 3 September 2011 – 26 February 2012 (incl. catalogue )
- co-editor of a survey on the international funding situation of media art (2011; now partly out of date)
- Founding Director of the new Dortmunder U – Centre for Art and Creativity (2009-2011)
- co-curator of the exhibition MyWar – Participation in an Age of Conflict at FACT Liverpool and Edith Russ Site for Media Art, Oldenburg, 2010, Agnes Etherington Arts Center, Kingston/Ontarion, Canada, 2011.
- artistic director of ISEA 2010 RUHR, 16th International Symposium on Electronic Art, Ruhr region (Dortmund, Essen, Duisburg, …), Germany, 20-29 August 2010. Curator (with Stefan Riekeles) of the exhibition TRUST (Hartware MedienKunstVerein, Dortmund)
- co-editor (with knowbotic research) of Opaque Presence. Manual of Latent Visibility. Berlin, Zurich: diaphanes, 2010
- co-editor (with Gunalan Nadarajan) of the publication Place Studies in Art, Media, Science, and Technology (2009)
- co-curator of the 5th Media Biennial media_city seoul at the Seoul Museum of Art (11 September – 10 November 2008), reviewed
- curator of the Municipal Acquisitions Exhibition 2008 Deep Screen – Art in Digital Culture, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam (30 May – 30 September 2008)
- curator of the re:place 2007 conference
- curator of the Berlin edition of 9 Evenings Reconsidered, TESLA-Berlin, November 2007
- artistic co-director of TESLA media>art<lab, 2005-2007
- lecture on art and digital culture at Migros Kulturprozent award ceremony, Basel, 26 October 2007 (pdf and mp3; in German)
- artistic director of transmediale 2001 – 2007, from do it yourself! to unfinish!
- curator of exh. Knowbotic Research – Room for Manoeuvre, Ljubljana 2006
- curator of exh. Runtime Art, Zagreb 2004
- curator and project manager at V2_Organisation, Rotterdam (1995-2000)