Vanina Yael Hofman Matusevich
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ISEA 2025
Vanina Hofman holds a PhD in the Information and Knowledge Society from the Internet Interdisciplinary Institute (IN3). She is a cultural producer and a Lecturer at the Universitat Rovira i Virgili (URV), where she has directed the Cultural Classroom for Cinema and Audiovisual Arts since 2023. Her work is situated within ASTS studies, focusing on processes of memory and forgetting in digital culture, the construction of unconventional art histories, media archaeology, and digital heritage. Between 2006 and 2022, she directed Taxonomedia, a cultural association dedicated to studying preservation and archiving practices in media arts. Currently, she is the principal investigator of “Digital twins: Classroom Learning” [Els Bessons Digitals a l’Aula], a co-design project developing sustainable, transferable, and open strategies for preserving local cultural heritage. She is also a researcher at MESJENET, where she coordinates work on oral memory and storytelling in the Middle Nile Valley (Egypt).
ISEA2023
Vanina Hofman is a Lecturer at the History and Art History Department of the Universitat Rovira i Virgili (Catalonia) where she is also Director of the Uni Aula de Cine. She develops her work in the field of intersection between arts, sciences, technologies and societies, in a hybrid territory among academic research and cultural production. She is particularly interested in the processes involved in the construction of memory in digital culture, the archiving of media arts, the unconventional arts histories and the digital materialities. She has recently published the book “Divergent Practices of Media Arts Preservation. Remembering and Forgetting in the Digital Culture” (Prometeo Libros, 2019) based on previous fieldwork conducted in Argentina. She is collaborating with PAM / Plataforma Arte y Medios.
ISEA 2022
Vanina Hofman, PhD (Buenos Aires, 1978) works and lives in Barcelona. Lecturer at the History and Art History Department of the Universitat Rovira i Virgili (URV). She develops her work in a hybrid territory between academic research and cultural production. Her field of research lies in the intersections among Art, Science, Technology & Society. She is particularly interested in the processes involved in the construction of memory in contemporary culture, the archiving of media arts, the unconventional arts histories and the digital heritage. She has recently published the book “Divergent Practices of Media Arts Preservation. Remembering and Forgetting in the Digital Culture” (Prometeo Libros, 2019) based on previous fieldwork conducted in Argentina. She is part of the interdisciplinary Research Group SETOPANT (URV, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and Institut Català d’Arqueologia Clàssica).
