Yael Eylat Van-Essen PhD – Curator / Researcher

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Exhibitions

MUSeum+, Research residency, Curatorial Team, curatorial consultancy

The historic industrial site of Ostrava, Czech Republic,

01/03/2023 — 30/09/2023

Life Object

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

02/09/2018 — 30/04/2019

(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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

Theme: van-essen by Aviv Lichter.