Speakers

Speakers

Dr. Yael Eylat Van-Essen

 

PhD. Yael Eylat Van-Essen

Dr. Yael Eylat Van-Essen

Researcher/Curator, HIT Holon Institute of Technology Design Faculty, Tel-Aviv University Art Faculty

 

 

 

Eylat Van-Essen, PhD. is a curator and a researcher specializing in the interface between art, design, science and technology and also in Museology. She received her PhD from Tel-Aviv University, and did a post-doc at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. She curated many exhibitions in Israel and abroad, among them at the Venice Biennale for Architecture, Ars Electronica in Linz and the Museum of Modern Art in St. Petersburg. Her new book Rethinking the Museum was published in Israel in 2016 and in 2002 she has published the first anthology published in Hebrew on Digital Culture. She has founded and directed for many years the Digital Media department in Camera Obscura school of Art and founded and co-directed the International Curatorial Program in Tel Aviv. Currently, she is a senior lecturer at the design faculty of the Holon Institute of Technology, and also lectures at Tel Aviv University’s art faculty.

 

Dr. Van-Essen will speak at the 2019 STEMM Conference in the Design Technologies Session:

 

and the Museum Technologies Session:

  • Museums and Technology: Redesigning the Museum
    (Session 5)