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הפקולטה לעיצוב
הפקולטה לעיצוב
סגל בכיר
ראש החוג הבינלאומי, הפקולטה לעיצוב

Dr. Eylat Van Essen Yael
Faculty of Design
Senior faculty
Head, International Relations, Faculty of Design

Education

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    2015
    Hebrew University Jerusalem
    Post-Doc
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    2011
    Tel Aviv University
    PhD
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    2004
    Tel Aviv University
    MA
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    1985
    Bezalel Academy of Art and Design
    BFA

Selected Portfolio

Research Fields

  • Art/Science/Technology/Design
  • Digital Culture
  • Museology and Digital Heritage
  • Resilience Studies
  • Post Photography
  • AI in Art and Design

Teaching Areas

  • Art / Design / Science /Technology
  • Speculative Design
  • Research Methodologies
  • Museology
  • Design in a Technological Environment

Selected Publications

  • Eylat Van Essen, Yael, (2016), Rethinking the Museum (monograph), Bnei Brak: Ha'Kibutz Ha'Meuchad Press.,
  • Eylat Van Essen, Yael (ed.), (2016), LifeObject: Merging Architecture and Biology (Edited book), Montreal: Sternthal Books.,
  • Eylat Van Essen, Yael (ed.), (2002), Digital Culture (edited book), Bnei Brak: Ha'Kibutz Ha'Meuchad Press.,
  • Eylat Van Essen, Yael , (2024), "Integrating AI in Museums : A New Phase in Museum Transformation", Mimesis Journal, 13(2), 229–242. ,
  • Eylat Van Essen, Yael , (2023), "Museums and Archives in the Age of Artificial Intelligence and Post-Representation"., In: Tam, Kk. (eds) Sight as Site in the Digital Age . Digital Culture and Humanities, vol 5. Springer, Singapore. 83-104., Link
  • Eylat Van Essen, Yael , (2021), "Coping with Uncertainty: Being Resilient"., In: Oliver Grau, Inge Hinterwaldner (Eds.), Retracing Political Dimensions: Strategies in Contemporary Art, Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter Press. 55-77.,
  • Eylat Van Essen, Yael , (2020), "From Photographic Representation to Photographic Genotype"., In Daniel Rubinstein (ed.) Fragmentation of the Photographic Image in Digital Culture. London: Routledge Press, 2020. 83-99.,
  • Eylat Van Essen, Yael, (2020), "Can we talk about Cartography without Borders?"., In Abeliovich Ruthie and Edwin Seroussi (Eds.) Borderlines: Essays on artistic and conceptual practices of mapping places. De Gruyter Press. 117-133.,
  • Eylat Van Essen, Yael, (2016), "LifeObject"., In Eylat Van Essen, Yael, (ed.), LifeObject: Merging Architecture and Biology, Montreal: Sternthal Books. 7-31.,
  • Eylat Van Essen, Yael, (2013), "The Image as a Networked Interface: The Textualization of the Photographic Image"., In Daniel Rubinstein, Johnny Golding Andy Fisher, (eds.) On the Verge of Photography, Birmingham; Birmingham University Press. 259-283.,
  • Eylat Van Essen, Yael, (2013), "Photography and the New Mechanisms of Visuality"., In Haikin Naama (ed.), Lot's Wife - Exhibition Catalog, Tel Hai: The Open Museum of Photography Tel-Hai. 116-128.,
  • • Eylat Van-Essen, Yael, (2023), "City Museums as Urban Hubs for Civic Resilience"., In Camoc Conference 2022 Prague Book of Proceedings. 40-47. ,
  • Eylat Van-Essen, Yael, (2021), "Artificial Creativity – Hybridizing the Artificial and the Human"., In Design Cultures Rome Conference, Cumulus Publications,
  • Eylat Van-Essen, Yael, (2021), "Mapping, Sensing and Hacking: Rethinking Architecture in the Era of the Anthropocene"., In Proceedings for “The Ecological Turn” Conference, Bolonia Conference. 90-105.,
  • Eylat Van-Essen, Yael, (2017), Fragmented Spaces, Spliced Identities, Exhibition Catalog (ed.), In Fragmented Spaces, Spliced Identities, Exhibition Catalog, Raanana: Open University Press. ,
  • Eylat Van-Essen, Yael Levi Dror .K. (eds.), (2013), The Cartography of the Unseen, HIT Research Gallery, Exhibition Catalog (ed.), Holon: HIT Gallery,
  • Eylat Van-Essen, Yael Levi Dror .K. (eds.), (2013), Syrian People Know Their Way, HIT Research Gallery, Design Faculty in collaboration with Dayan Center for Middle East and African Studies, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv: Dayan Center, Tel Aviv University. ,
  • Eylat Van-Essen, Yael Levi Dror .K. (eds.), (2012), Boaz Tal - Homage, Holon: HIT Research Gallery,

Grants & Awards

  • HIT – Excellence in creative research – 2015-2022
  • i-CORE (Israeli Centers of Research Excellence), The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, 2014-15
  • Israel National Lottery, grant for research in Israeli Visual Culture, 2013
  • Rothschild Cesaria Communication School, Grant for outstanding PhD research, Tel-Aviv University, 2008
  • Netvision Institute for Internet Research, Grant for outstanding PhD research, Tel-Aviv University, 2005
  • Scholarship for excellence for doctoral students, Tel-Aviv University, 2004-2009

International Projects

  • MUSEum+, Ostrava, Czech Republic. 2023-


    Invited Research Residency. Developing Museum and exhibition concepts.
  • Conference Chair: Text – Code – Image, Dialogue between Design and Science: International Conference on Data Visualization, HIT, Israel; WBU, Czech Republic, 2022.
  • Conference Chair: DesAIn Conference- An international conference on the implications of artificial intelligence in the field of design. HIT, Israel; WBU, Czech Republic 2021
  • International Design Week, Design Week, HIT, academic chair, 2019, 2020, 2022, 2025
  • DesAIn Conference- An international conference on the implications of artificial intelligence in the field of design. HIT, Israel; WBU, Czech Republic 2021

Exhibitions & Events

  • LifeObject, The Steinhardt Museum of Natural History in Tel Aviv, 2018 - curator
  • (id)ea.code++ Algorithmic Objects, HIT Research Gallery, 2017 - curator
  • Art, Science and Technology - Museum of Modern Art, St. Petersburg, 2016 - curator
  • LifeObject: Merging Architecture and Biology, Israel Pavilion, Venice Biennale for Architecture, 2016 - curator
  • The New Craft, HIT Research Gallery, HIT, Holon, Israel, 2015 - curator
  • Bio-Design, Hybrid Fabrications, HIT Research Gallery, HIT, Holon, Israel, 2014 - curator
  • Art, Science and Technology – An Israeli Perspective, Kiev, Ukraine, 2014 - curator
  • Not yet, Already, Architecture and Animation, HIT Research Gallery, HIT, Holon, Israel, 2014 - curator
  • File:/Home, HIT Research Gallery, HIT, Holon, Israel, 2014 - curator
  • The Cartography of the Unseen, HIT Research Gallery, HIT, Holon, Israel, 2013 - curator - curator
  • Syria, a Silent Scream, (co-curator), Mana Contemporary Art, New Jersey, USA, 2013 - curator
  • IL(L) Machine, Ars Electronica Festival, Linz, Austria, 2013 - curator