CV, tabular form
1979 – to date
2022 – to date
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2009 – to date
Author, theorist, editor
Prof. em. for the Theories of Cultures and Media and for Artistic Research, Zurich University of the Arts/ZHdK
Guest professor for academic and artistic PhDs at University of the Arts Linz/Austria
2011 – 2021
Founder and head of the Artistic PhD Cooperation Programme Fine Arts / Fine Arts and Transdisciplinarity, ZHdK – Kunstuniversität Linz/Austria
(since 2017 together with Prof. Dr. Florian Dombois)
2013/2015 – 2020
Member/vice-president Executive Board of Society for Artistic Research, SAR
2011 – 2021
Professor for Artistic Research, Department of Art & Media, DKM (today: Department of Fine Arts), ZHdK
2013 – 2018
Member Delegation Research & Development / Swissuniversities
2012 – 2018
Head of Dossier Research, ZHdK
2002 – 2018
Professor for the theories of cultures and of media, Master Fine Arts programme, Department of Art & Media, DKM, ZHdK
2007 – 2017
Director Department of Art & Media, DKM, vice-rector and member of the board of ZHdK
2007 – 2011
Visiting professor, branch study Interface Culture, University of Art and Design Linz/Austria
2002 – 2007
Head Department of Media & Art (DMK), University of Applied Sciences and Arts, School of Arts and Design Zurich, HGKZ
2002
Appointment as Head Department of Media & Art (DMK), HGKZ.
Appointment to professorhip for the history and theory of cultures and of media
1998 – 2002
Founder, head and co-head study programme New Media, HGKZ.
Fields of teaching: culture and media theory, media cultures studies
1994 – 1998
Docent for the history and theory of Visual Communication, School of Art and Design Zurich, SfGZ
1991 – 1996
Member Research Institute for Migration and Racism Research (Institut für Migrations- und Rassismusforschung), Hamburg/Germany
1989 – 1994
Scientific editor, WochenZeitung, Zurich/Switzerland
1983 – 1993
Co-editor, biannual politico-cultural journal Widerspruch, Zurich/Switzerland
1984 – 1988
Teaching and research assistant for New German literature studies, Institute for German Literature, University of Basle/Switzerland.
Fields of teaching and research: text studies as cultural studies, literature as a media, romanticism, contemporary literature, culture and society
1982 – 1984
Lecturer, Departement of German Literature and Department of Philosophy, Free University Berlin/West Berlin.
Post-graduate grant holder Ciba-Geigy AG, Basle/Switzerland
1981
Magister Artium (M.A., with distinction) in philosophy and German literature studies, Free University (FU) Berlin/West Berlin
1976 – 1981
Studies of philosophy, cultural studies and German literature studies at Free University (FU) Berlin/West Berlin with focuses on: aesthetics, epistemology, media, social theory, theory of the subject, cultural theories; romanticism, German literature of the 20th century