Yael Eylat Van-Essen PhD – Curator / Researcher

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Lectures

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

Selected lecture /

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

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

Conference co-chair /

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

Selected lecture /

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

Selected lecture /

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

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

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

Theme: van-essen by Aviv Lichter.