MUSESPHERE

Transforming Digital Culture Investigating the digital practices that transform cultural experience while augmenting and disrupting the very ethos of the museum

Susan Hazan

Consulting to institutions and agencies to coordinate and stimulate digital activity across the sector: museums, libraries and archives, digital humanities based in universities, innovation hubs, and representatives from the related government ministries.

The Musesphere

Mapping the Musesphere: Cultures of Exhibition and Technologies of Display, PhD, Goldsmiths College, University of London, focusing on electronic architectures in the contemporary museum.

Current Research

Through the Looking Glass. Cultural Heritage Custodians Populate the Mirrorworld, Digitalia

Susan Hazan

After more than 30 years in the sector Hazan researches digital transformation and how they both augment and disrupt cultural heritage.

Editorial

MIT Press | Reviewer Springer Journals | Reviewer Journal on Computer and Cultural Heritage (JOCC), Associate Editor, Reviewer Il capitale culturale. Studies on the value of cultural heritage Editorial Board Universit di Macerata – Dipartimento di beni culturali

Professional Affiliations

Europeana Members Council Chair Govermance Committee Co-Chair, Communicators Community MUSE Awards, American Alliance of Museums (AAM) Jury Chair, Digital Campaign HCI International, July 2020 Copenhagen
Program Board, 8th International Conference on Culture an Computing

Florence Heri-Tech, 2020
Technical Program Committee
The Future of Heritage Science and Technologies

Selected Publications

 

Google Books Academia.edu dblp computer science bibliography Google Scholar Recent Through the Looking Glass. Cultural Heritage Custodians to Populate the Mirrorworld, Digitalia, 2019. Download Deep Fake and Cultural Truth - Custodians of Cultural Heritage in the Age of Digital Reproduction, Springer, 2020. Download

Musesphere on YouTube

Federica Bressan Presenting Technoculture, 2019, Europeana Podcast, Solve-It-Session: Digital Storytelling Platform10, 2018 Lausaunne Performing the Digital Museum

II FIEC 2012, Cidade Da Cultura, GaliciaO Israel Museum na palma da túa man

NODEM 2013, Hong Kong, MuseWeb The Responsive Museum
"We want it all and we want it now!

Lectures and Presentations

July 2020, Copenhagen, HCI 8th International Conference on Culture an Computing Program Board, Presentation: Deep Fake and Cultural Truth May 2020, Florence, The International Conference Florence Heri-tech, The Future of Heritage Science and Technologies, Technical Program Committee, Presentation: Through the Looking Glass. Cultural Heritage Custodians to Populate the Mirrorworld November 2019, Lisbon, Europeana AGM, Moderator: Pitch your Project, , Communicating the value of digital culture to stakeholders June 2018, Berlin, Cultural heritage communities and audiences in today’s digital environment, SUMMIT 2018: EVENT, Performing the Digital Museum

April 2018, Lausanne, Symposium "Rising to the challenge. Digital innovation in museums." International symposium organized by PLATEFORME, Presentation: Performing the Digital Museum

April 2018
Berlin, VIMM - Virtual Multimodal Museum Network, Chair: Working Group 1.1, What is a Virtual Museum

Interviews and Reports

אמנות | המוזיאון המתחדש: הולוגרמות ומציאות רבודה, Globes 2018 Taking museums into the digital age, Culture Report, The Jerusalem Report, 2016, Judith Sudilovsky The Digital Dead Sea Scrolls, Information Summit, St. Petersburg, 2012 (in Russian), 2012 The Digital Dead Sea Scrolls now in Chinese, CCTV, July, 2012, CNTV, download movie Dead Sea scrolls available in Chinese CCTV News - CNTV English, 29/07/2012, report CityU students help on Chinese version of digital Dead Sea Scrolls, report LIBRARIES AND MUSEUMS IN AN ERA OF PARTICIPATORY CULTURE, Salzburg Global Seminar, 2011 האתר של מוזיאון ישראל, Daily Maily, People and computing, 2018

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See also Digital Heritage, Israel