Research and Lectures | Burkhard Meltzer

Lectures/workshops (selection)

2021- Shared and entangled: design in a globalized world, Zurich University of the Arts ZHdK
2020- Approaches to Media Theory, Zurich University of the Arts ZHdK
2020/2021 Image, Technology, Politics, with Björn Franke, Zurich University of the Arts ZHdK
2018- From Project to Scene: Exhibiting as technique of everyday-life and professional medium of the arts, Zurich University of the Arts ZHdK
2017 Untitled: The Language of Titles in Contemporary Art, Zurich University of the Arts ZHdK
2016/2011 Visiting critic, Hochschule der Künste, Berne
2015 Situations: regarding the production of spaces and relations, with Tido von Oppeln, HfG Karlsruhe
2014 Rethink the Modular, USM Masterclasses at Domaine de Boisbuchet (France), with Go Hasegawa, Allan Wexler, Bless, and others, co-head with Tido von Oppeln
2008-2014 A History of Contemporary Art: I Avantgardes, II Criticism and Appropriation, III The Body as Device, Series of lectures, Zurich University of the Arts ZHdK
2012 Realism and the disappearing of reality, with Rudolph Jula, Zurich University of the Arts ZHdK
2007-2009 The Space of Illusion and Critical Space, University of Liechtenstein
2006-2008 Im Gespräch: Lecture and workshop programme with contemporary artists, Zurich University of the Arts ZHdK
2005-2006 Contemporary art production, with Stefan Wagner, Zürich University of the Arts ZHdK and the University of Zurich, Art History Department

Public talks/discussions/symposia (selection)

2024 Symposium In Time? Encounters in Temporality, 29 – 30 November, Zurich Unversity of the Arts/Hong Kong Baptist University, concept/organizer
2024 On Design`s Mediality, conference presentation at the XII. Congress of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Ästhetik (DGÄ), University of Fribourg/Switzerland
2024 Taking design`s impact for a walk: a roving panel, with Monica Gaspar, Francis Müller and Helen Pritchard, panel at the Conference “Hazarding Design”, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Designtheorie und -forschung (DGTF), Hochschule Luzern, Design und Kunst
2023 The contemporary, distributed. On the mobility of a temporal concept, lecture on the occasion of Month of Art Practice/Heritage Space, Mo art space, Hanoi
2022 Designing Atmosphere? A technological-aestethic practice across cultures, conference presentation for “Aesthetics of the Atmosphere in an Intercultural Perspective”, Universität Hildesheim/Zheijang University, Hangzhou
2022 Breathe In, Breathe Out, Johannes Itten and East Asia, conference presentation on the occassion of the 8th international EAM (European Network of Avant-garde and Modernism Studies) conference, Nova University Lisbon
2021 Soft Shapes: Technical and Aesthetic Perspectives on Thingness in Contemporary Art, conference presentation at “Technik/Ästhetik – Zur materialen und rezeptiven Systematisierung techno-ästhetischer Realität”, Hochschule Bonn-Rhein-Sieg (online)
2019 The Comfort of Smart Devices–The End of Pop? Global Pop Cultures conference and workshop, Kyōto Seika University/Shared Campus
2018 The Realism of Design in Contemporary Art, Lecture on the occasion of the 6th international EAM (European Network of Avant-garde and Modernism Studies) conference, University of Münster
2018 Aesthetization – How a swearword turned positive, X. Congress of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Ästhetik, HfG Offenbach
2017 Vitamin Water – How Design became Arts Critical Agent, University of Applied Arts, Vienna
2017 Communicating Across Economies, Vitra Design Museum/Academy of Art and Design, Weil am Rhein/Basel
2016 Exhibiting – On the Critique of Efficacy in the Arts, discussion with Sabeth Buchmann and Ilse Lafer, Kunsthalle Bern
2015 The Effect of Reality, Zurich University of the Arts ZHdK
2012 The Agency Switch, Kunstverein Hannover
2011 Two Case Studies on Landscape, Interiors and Abstraction in Contemporary Art, Kingston University, London
2010 The work of design and the lifeworld of art, David Roberts Art Foundation, London

Research

2023-2024 Are We Contemporary? Shared Campus/Cultures-Histories-Futures group, Zurich University of the Arts ZHdK in cooperation with University of the Arts London/Central Saint Martins, LASALLE College of the Arts Singapore, City University of Hong Kong/School of Creative Media, Tokyo University of the Arts, concept and head of project
2012-2015 Design, Art, Lifeworld – Aesthetic Strategies and Cultural Agency, Zurich University of the Arts ZHdK in collaboration with Berlin University of the Arts UDK, concept and co-head with Tido von Oppeln
2010-2011 Prototype II – Representation of Furniture in Design and Art, Zurich University of the Arts ZHdK in collaboration with the University of St. Gallen, ETH Zürich, vitra design museum and migros museum für gegenwartskunst, concept and co-head with Tido von Oppeln
2008-2009 Prototype – Furniture in Design and Art, Zurich University of the Arts ZHdK in collaboration with University of St. Gallen, ETH Zürich, vitra design museum and migros museum für gegenwartskunst, concept and head of project