Yael Eylat Van-Essen – PhD – Curator / Researcher

From Photographic representation to Photographic genotype”

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Routledge Press, 2020

Coping with Uncertainty: Being Resilient

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De Gruyter Press, 2021

Artificial Creativity – Hybridizing the Artificial and the Human.

Text / Cumulus Association, 2021

Creating Future Memories with AI

Selected lecture / RE:SOURCE: The 10th International Conference on the Histories of Media Art, Science and Technology, Venice, Italy. September 13th-16th, 2023

Integrating AI in Museums - A New Phase in Museum Transformation

Selected lecture / DRHA Conference 2023, Performing Cultural Heritage in the Digital Present Conference 2023, Università di Torino, Italy, 10-13 September 2023

Talk: Contextualizing Heritage – Past, Present, Future

Invited lecture / DieAngewandte, The University of Applied Arts Vienna Zentrum Fokus Forschung, Thursday, 25 May 2023

Designing for Resilience – A Critical View

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Antwerp Research Institute for the Arts (ARIA) 2022-23 Seminar Series CUMULUS Antwerp 2023 Methods in Artistic Research A seminar for artistic researchers to discuss their methods Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Antwerp 12-15 April 2023

MUSeum+, Research residency, Curatorial Team, curatorial consultancy

The historic industrial site of Ostrava, Czech Republic,

01/03/2023 — 30/09/2023

Data Visualization as a Way of Interpretation

A Critical View

Selected lecture / Text - Code- Image: Dialogue Between Design and Science HIT Holon Institute of Technology – Faculty of Design and School of Computer Science / Ladislav Sutnar Faculty of Design and Art at the University of West Bohemia, Czech Republic. Wednesday, December 7th, 2023

Text - Code- Image

Dialogue Between Design and Science, Visualizing Data and Visualizing through Data

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HIT Holon Institute of Technology – Faculty of Design and School of Computer Science / Ladislav Sutnar Faculty of Design and Art at the University of West Bohemia, Czech Republic. December 7th, 2022.

City Museums as Urban Hubs for Civic Sustainability

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Mapping, Sensing and Hacking Rethinking Architecture in the Era of the Anthropocene

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The University of Bologna, 2022

Design – Code – Human

Conference chair and introduction lecture / Design – Code – Human, HIT, Design Faculty, 2.5.2022

Material - Shiny, heavy, moving, growing - a new way of thinking about materiality in design

Conference chair and introduction lecture / Material, HIT, Design Faculty Conference, 21.12.2021

Big data, Mapping, and Pattern Recognition

what is visible and what is not

DesAIn - International Conference on the impact of Artificial Intelligence (AI) on Contemporary Design

Conference chair and introduction lecture / The conference is a joint initiative of The Institute of interdisciplinary studies of art, design and advanced technologies (IAT), Ladislav Sutnar Faculty of Design and Art University of West Bohemia, Czech Republic and HIT – Holon Institute of Technology, Israel. May 25, 2021

Digital Archives and the Museum in the Age of Artificial Intelligence and Post-Representation

Selected lecture / International Conference on Digital Representation and Research in Art, Humanities and Culture, Centre for Greater China Studies (CGCS), The Hang Seng University of Hong Kong (HSUHK). 6-7 May 2021

Artificial Creativity – Hybridizing the Artificial and the Human

Selected lecture / Design Culture(s), Cumulus Conference, Sapienza University of Rome, June 8-11, 2021

Mapping, Sensing and Hacking – Rethinking Architecture in the Era of the Anthropocene

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The Ecological Turn: Design, architecture and aesthetics beyond “Anthropocene”, University of Bologna, Department of Architecture, International Conference, 22nd January 2021, Bologna

Adaptation in an Unpredictable Reality – Resilience and Vulnerability

Selected lecture / After Agency Conference, Humanities/Art/Technology Research Center (Adam Mickiewicz University), Poznan, 12.11.2019

Cultural Heritage as an Urban Generator

Invited lecture / International Conference on Protection of Tangible and Intangible Cultural Heritage Organized by the Government of Uzbekistan in collaboration with UNESCO, Samarkand 26 to 30 August 2019

Museums and Technology: Redesigning the Museum

Invited Keynote lecture / STEMM Conference, National University of Uzbekistan, Tashkent SSU – Samarkand State University BSU - Bukhara State University in collaboration with HIT. May 2019

Designing in the Digital Era

Invited Keynote lecture / STEMM Conference, BSU - Bukhara State University in collaboration with HIT, May 2019

Rethinking the Digital Museum

Invited keynote lecture / Allez Hop - Digital Futures in Cultures, French-German Cultural Entrepreneurship Summit, Mannheim 4.4.2019

‘Going Smart’: The Politics and Ethics of Resilient Smart Machines

Selected lecture / Moral Machines The Ethics and Politics of the Digital Worlds Conference, University of Helsinki, 7.3.2019

Curatorial Practices and the Digital Archive

Invited lecture / Rethinking the Collection-Issues of Collection: Canon and Historic Narratives Conference, Ein Harod Museum 8.2.2019

Rethinking the Museum – New Hybrid

Selected lecture / The Art Museum in the Digital Age Conference, Belvedere Museum, Wien 10.1.2019

Merging Biology with Architecture: Collaborative models

Invited Keynote lecture / Circulating Our Cities: Urban-Rural Linkages Popping Up Conference, TCCLab, Taipei 17.12.2018

From New Materials to New Structures: Biology and Architecture

Invited Keynote lecture / 2018 TWICE, Taiwan Innovative Circular Economy Conference, C-Hub NCKU, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, 15.12.2018

Curatorial Works

Yael Eylat Van Essen

Invited lecture / Dox – Centre for Contemporary Art, Prague, 15.11.2018

The Research Gallery as a Platform for Design Education

Invited lecture / Global Issues in Regional Contexts Conference, KISD-Koln International School of Design, 29.5.2018

“Optimizing” Creativity

Selected lecture / Politics of the Machine: Art and after Conference, Aalborg University, Eva Copenhagen Conference, 16.5.2018

Smart Systems in Museum

How will Artificial Intelligence impact the Ways in Which Knowledge is Organized in the Museum?

Invite lecture / Chatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sanghralaya (The Prince of Whales Museum), Mumbai. 15.3.2018

Life Object

The Steinhardt Museum of Natural History, Tel-Aviv, curator

02/09/2018 — 30/04/2019

From the Digital to the Post-Digital

the Photographic Image

Selected lecture / RE:TRACE - 7th International Conference for Histories of Media Art, Science and Technology, 2017, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, 18.10.2017

Rethinking the Museum

Book (heb) / Author

Bnei Brak: Hakibutz Hameuchad, 2016

Breathing Architecture - Integrating Biology and Technology

Selected lecture / Technarte Bilbao - Where Art and Technology Meet, Bilbao 11.5.2017

From the Photo Album to the “Big Picture”

Invited lecture / The Paradigm of the Digital Image Conference, Shenkar College, 22.3.2017

Rethinking the Museum

Book Launch seminar

Between the Real and the Virtual

The Public Space in the Digital Age

Invited lecture / Architecture Department, Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem, 15.12.2016

New-Media Art and the Museum

New Media and the Arts: Interfaces, Challenges and New Insights Conference, Open University, Raanana / 23.1.2016

Merging Biology and Architecture

The Israeli Pavilion at the Venice Biennale

Invited Lecture / Museum Masterskaya Anikushina, St. Petersburg, Russia, June 2016

Can we Talk About Cartography Without Borders?

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De Gruyter Press, 2019

(id)ea.code++

Algorithmic Objects

HIT Research Gallery, Curator

19/07/2017 — 17/08/2017

“(id)ea.code++ - Algorithmic Objects” exhibition, presents a wide spectrum of art works that employ code and asks fundamental questions about the relationships between man and machines.

(id)ea.code++,

Algorithmic Objects

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Neo-Bartalism

By Eitan Bartal with Yoni Amit

Hansen Center for Media and Technology, Jerusalem, Curator

04/05/2017 — 19/05/2017

“Neo-Batalism” Exhibition integrates techniques of new media – surveillance technologies, robotics, image processing and machine learning – with videos and physical objects produced with low-tech tehnologies.

Fragmented Spaces, Spliced Identities

Catalog / Editor

Open University Press, 2017

Fragmented Spaces, Spliced Identities

Open University Gallery Open University Campus, Raanana, Curator

20/03/2017 — 18/05/2017

New-Media Art exhibition that explores the new spatial and identity patterns being reconstructed in the digital era.

Art, Science and Technology

An Israeli Perspective

St. Petersburg, Russia, Erarta Museum of Contemporary Art

21/11/2016 — 23/11/2016

New Media Art from Israel,shown at Erarta Museum for contemporary art in St. Petersbur

Phantoms: Journey Following the Relics of Dictatorships

Artists House Tel-Aviv, Curator

13/10/2016 — 05/11/2016

An exhibition of Dana Arieli’s “Phantoms project”, a photographic research on the relics of totalitarian regimes in Europe.

LifeObject

Merging Biology and Architecture

Book / Editor

Montreal: Sternthal Books, 2016.

LifeObject

Merging Biology and Architecture

Israeli Pavilion, Venice Biennale for Architecture, Curator

28/05/2016 — 27/11/2016

An exhibition shown at the Israeli Pavilion, in the 15th Venice Biennale for Architecture. The exhibition dealt with the relations between Biology and Architecture

The New Craft

Exhibition Brochure /

HIT Research Gallery, 2015

The New Craft

HIT Research Gallery, Curator

26/10/2015 — 19/11/2015

An international exhibition examining the meaning of craft work in a computerized and robotic era.

Neo Bartalism

Exhibition Catalog / editor

2017

Bio-Design: Hybrid Fabrications

Exhibition Brochure / Text

HIT Research Gallery, 2013

Digital Culture

Virtuality, Society and Information

Book (heb) / Editor

Hakibutz Hameuchad, 2002

BioDesign

Hybrid Fabrications

HIT Research Gallery, Curator

10/12/2014 — 07/01/2015

This exhibition represented design projects implementing biomimetic practices or integrating natural and artificial systems in their design prcess.

Art, Science and Technology

An Israeli Perspective

Kiev, Ukraina, Curator

21/11/2014 — 23/11/2014

An exhibition of New Media Art from Israel, shown in Kiev, Ukraina, Curator

Not Yet, Already

Architecture and Animation

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Not yet, Already

Architecture and Animation

HIT Research Gallery, Curator

26/10/2014 — 19/09/2014

This exhibition, shown at HIT research Gallery, presented animated films created in seven of the world's leading architect’s firms and architectural research oriented offices.

FILE:\HOME

HIT Research Gallery, Curator

12/06/2014 — 03/07/2014

This exhibition analyzed the meanings rooted at the concept of open source and its implications on design.

The Cartography of the Unseen

Catalog / Co-Editor

HIT Research Gallery, 2013

The Cartography of the Unseen

HIT Research Gallery, Curator

16/11/2013 — 26/12/2017

This exhibition offered political reading of mapping, by exposure of the overt and covert mechanisms embedded in cartography, and as invitation to act within the mapped territory to bring about change.

Syria a Silenced Scream

New-Jersey, NJ

29/09/2013 — 16/11/2013

Posters from the Syrian Uprising, Shown in MECA, Mana Contemporary art, New-Jersey, New-York.

The Image as a Networked Interface

The Textualization of the Photographic Image

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Birmingham: Birmingham University Press, 2013

IL(L) Machine

Journal / Exhibition critique section

Bezalel, Journal of Visual and Material Culture

Photography and the New Mechanisms of Visuality

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The Open Museum of Photography, Tel-Hai

IL(L) Machine

Ars Electronica Festival / Linz, Austria, Curator

05/09/2013 — 09/09/2013

The exhibition shown at Ars Electronica Festival in 2013, examined the ways in which new technologies are re-defining our identities as human beings in ara of automated agents .

Syrian People Know Their Way

Catalog / Co-Editor

HIT Research Galleryin Collaboration with Dayan Center for Middle East and Africa Studies, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv: Tel-Aviv Universiy Press, 2013

Syrian People Know Their Way

HIT Research Gallery, Curator

19/02/2013 — 13/03/2013

The Exhibition, shown at HIT Research Gallery, presented poster and short films of the Syrian Uprising, created between 2011-2013 by a group of Syrian Resistance activists.

One Animation Per day

HIT Research Gallery, Curator

19/05/2013 — 30/05/2013

The exhibition presented selected animation films of graduates from the Animation Department of the Royal College of Art in London created between 2003-2011.

Boaz Tal, Homage

Catalog / Co-Editor

HIT Research Gallery, 2012

Boaz Tal Homage

HIT Research Gallery, Curator

22/11/2012 — 20/12/2012

A photographic exhibition of Boaz Tal’s works, dealing with the concept of death through family photos.