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..
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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
Research grant from the Ministry for Regional Collaboration. 2026-2027
Research grant from HU-RIZON International Research Excellence Cooperation Programme (2026-2029)
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
DesAIn Conference- An international conference on the implications of artificial intelligence in the field of design. HIT, Israel; WBU, Czech Republic 2021
International Research Project: Synthetic History: Responsible Generative Artificial Intelligence for Historical Reconstruction and the Creation of Possible Histories for Museums and Heritage Sites.
Collaboration between researchers from Israel and Greece
Principal Investigator (PI)
International Research Project: From Margins to Models: Creating a Platform for Culturally Aware Generative AI in Low-Resource Languages
Collaboration between Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design (MOME) in Budapest, the University of Lisbon (Portugal), UCLA (USA), and HIT (Israel).
Principal Investigator (PI) Israeli team
COST Action CA24129 – European Media and Born-digital Art Conservation and Knowledge Network (EMBARK) 2025-2029
MC Member
COST Action CA25169 – Justice, Arts, Memory, Migration: Creating Solidarities Borders (JAMM) 2026-2030
MC Member
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
