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Curator of New Media and
Head of the Internet Office
The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
New Media Unit

Responsibilities include:
Identifying, visualizing
and implementing, digital
media applications for the
museum; educational projects,
kiosks, comprehensive
museum web site, teaching lab.

Founding Partner
Digital Heritage, Israel

Co-Chair the annual
EVA/MINERVA Conference
on the Digitisation of Israel's
Cultural Heritage,
2004, 2005, 2006, 2007

Masters and PhD
Goldsmiths College
University of London
Dept. Media & Communications
focused on electronic
architectures in the
contemporary museum.

Abstract: Mapping the
Musesphere: Cultures of
Exhibition and
Technologies of Display


Tags Networks Narrative
TNN is a unique speculative
project exploring the
potential for collaborative
keyword tagging
(folksonomy) in
narrative research.

MINERVA Israel, Coordinator
WP5,
User needs, Content
and Quality Framework

Report of the Activities of
the Israel Working Group on
User needs, Content and
Quality Framework

The Australian Research
Council (ARC) College of Experts

The mission of the Australian
Research Council is to advance
Australia's research excellence
to be globally competitive and deliver
benefits to
the communit
y.

Reports

A new marketplace
of ideas – harnessing
virtual communities to
build symbiotic
relationships

An interview with
Susan Hazan
By Joost van Kasteren
Digicult journalist
DigiCult Info
A Newsletter on Digital Culture -
Issue 7 ISSN 1609-3941

NINCH Community
Report 2001:
An Annual Report from
the Field
NET>COM.ORG.MUSEUM

The Israel Museum
and the Electronic Surrogate

Cultivate Interactive
issue 5, 1 October 2001

Millennial Museum - MCN Spectra Millennial Digest

Telecommunity presents heroes
Siggraph 1995

Telecommnity
GoLive Cyber Studio
1996

Telecommunity
Horizons, Siggraph 1997


EVA/MINERVA 2007
The Fourth Annual Jerusalem Conference on the Digitisation of Cultural Heritage

EVA representative in Israel

www.eva-conferences.com


Jury - EUROPRIX
Top Talent Award

The jury members are recruited
from the industry and higher
training institutions in multimedia,
nominated by the board of
directors of the European
Academy of Digital
Media & approved by the
EUROPRIX convenors.
See webcast of the Gala Celebration (ASDL)

World Summit Award (WSA)
Coordinator in Israel
www.wsis-award.org
2004/5 and 2006/7

Museums and the Web
Program Committee 2001-2007

Curatoral Panel for Netartsorg
2007 Winner and Honorable Mentions
Machida City Museum of
Graphic Arts, Japan
2005, 2005 and 2007
www.netarts.org

VSMM2006 Programme Committtee
12th International Conference on Virtual Systems & Multimedia (VSMM 2006)
October 18-20, 2006, the Chinese historical city of Xi¡¯


VSMM2005 Programme Committtee

Virtual Systems and Multimedia (VSMM2005)

ISEA
Interactive City Jury
InterSociety for Electronic Arts
Symposium held in San Jose
California, USA
August 2006

Program Committee
User Modeling (UM 2007)
International Workshop on
Personalized Access to
Cultural Heritage, UM'07,
UNE 2007, in Corfu, Greece


 

 



 



September 2008
Musing the MUVE's
The annual conference of the International Documentation Committee of the International Council of Museums
Athens, Greece

July 2008
Communication Across Borders

The Asper Institute for New Media Diplomacy, The Interdisciplinary Center, Herzelia (IDC)

July 2008
The Dead Sea Scrolls and Contemporary Culture

The Dead Sea Scrolls Online: Taking on a [Second] Life of Their Own
The Israel Museum, Jerusalem

June 2008
Culture Online
Peering Down the Wormhole: Cultural Instiutions Slide Between 2D, Mobile and 3D Platforms, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Download Powerpoint

April 2008
Thinking and acting in persistent worlds

Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) Herzliya
Download Powerpoint

March 2008
Museology Department
University of Haifa
Download Powerpoint

March 2008
Persistent Worlds: Will They Ever Go Away?

Donwnload Powerpoint
The Virtual Worlds: Libraries, Education and Museums Conference held in Second Life at the New Media Consortium Conference Center (NMC) on March 8, 2008.
Program

December 2007
A Passage from Web 1.0 to Web 3.0 - Institutions take on a [Second] Life of their own

Download Powerpoint
Mandel Leadership Institute Jerusalem

November 2007
Staking a Claim - Memory Institutions take on a [Second] Life of their own
EVA/MINERVA 2007
See images from Panel

April 2007, Montreal, Canada
The Digital Cultural Content Forum
An Introduction to Second Life

March 2007, Toronto, Canada
From Web 2.0 to 2nd Life:  the Ultimate Consensus or an Aggregation of the Mediocre?
University of Toronto, Faculty
of Information Studies

See Webcast

March 2007, San Fransisco, US
Closing Plenary; Panel and
Discussion: What's Next?
Challenges in Building the
Social and Participatory Web

Chair: Alternative realities,
Social Interaction,
Coolaborative Gaming and
Second Life
Museums and the Web

February 2007 - Berlin, Germany
Europe's cultural and scientific heritage in a digital world
From Web 2.0 to 2nd Life: the
ultimate consensus or an
aggregation of the mediocre?

(Abstract)

October 2006 - Dubrovnik, Croatia
Cultural portals: A new era
of cooperation
Cultural Portal, Israel

June 2006 - Salzburg, Austria
An Expedition to European
Digital Cultural Heritage

Collecting, Connecting - and
Conserving?

Web 2.00 - blogs and wikis;
Flickrs and folksonomies -
can a museum simply hand
it all over?
Abstract (Pdf.)
Download Presentation

March 2006 - Alburqurque, US
Museums and the Web
Chair: Participation +
Personalization
Visitors' Voices
Critroom II

November - Tunis, Tunisia
UN World Summit on the
Information Society

Israel Highway, Haaretz report

May 2005 - Haifa, Israel
The Center for the Study of
the Information society
Curating Online Art: Elitism or
Populism? (a debate)

Dr. Susan Hazan and
Prof. Sheizaf Rafaeli

April 2005 - Berlin, Germany
Quality of Cultural Websites
How to ensure and evaluate
MINERVA Products on
Best Practice
in Digitisation of
Cultural Heritage
MINERVA Report 2004
Evaluation of Five Websites
MINERVA - MINERVA-Plus -
Conference / Workshop

February, 2005, Tel Aviv, Israel
ISOC-IL 9th Annual Conference
What Clicks? Museums at the
Click of a Mouse

David Intercontinental Hotel,
Tel Aviv
Abstract
Presentation pps.

December, 2004 - Taiwan
The Regeneration Of Digital Arts
The International Symposium on
Digital Art
National Taiwan Museum of
Fine Arts and National Chiao
Tung University (NCTU), Taiwan
Hazan, S. (2004) 'Locating [Israeli]
digital art - artists think global
and act local' in Regeneration
of Digital Art, The International
Symposium of Digital Art in
Taiwan, Council for Cultural
Affairs, Executive Yuan,
National Museum of Fine Arts /
National Chiao-Tung University:
Taiwan.

PDF in English and Chinese
Download paper (English)

October 2004 - Jerusalem
Co-Chair - Jerusalem Conference
on the Digitisation of
Cultural Heritage

WG5- User Needs and Quality
Framework for Common Access
Points
Universal Access
What Clicks? - Susan Hazan

October 2004 - Korea
Museums and Intangible
Heritage

ICOM- International Councel
of Museums

Panel - “Digital Heritage and
Future Museum”

Where is the gallery?
Virtual museums in an age
of augmented reality

Download Presentation ppt.
Paper - The Israel Museum:
Living together


September 2003 - Scotland
Visual Knowledges,
University of Edinburgh

Institute for Advanced
Studies in the Humanities,
The University of Edinburgh
Arts and Humanities Research
Institute, University of Glasgow
Edinburgh College of Art
Panel: Exhibition and display

Paper - The Musesphere
and the E-Museum


July, 2003 - UK

ASA Decennial Conference
Anthropology and Science,
Manchester Univ.
Panel: Exhibition experiments:
technologies and cultures of
Convenor: Sharon Macdonald

Paper - The Virtual Aura

March, 2003 - USA
Museums and the Web 2003,
Charlotte, North Carolina

Program Committee
Paper -
Edutainment in 3D
virtual worlds.
The SEE experience

Mini-workshop A day at Qumran
Engage in a 3D world
cooperative experience
Chair - Virtual Companions

November, 2002 - UK
The Virtual Aura: the technologies
of exhibition and the exhibition
of technologies

'Researching Museums' Seminar
University of Leicester
Department of Museum Studies

March 2002 - Italy
The Virtual Sead Sea
Scrolls and the Electronic
Art Garden
EVA - Electronic Imaging
and the Visual Arts

Conference proceedings, Florence

July 2002 - Jerusalem
ETAI English Teachers’ Association,
Israel Annual National ETAI
Conference "Language -
The Key to Nations",
Jerusalem, Israel
Keynote Speaker - A Key to the
Collections - the Virtual Museum

April 2002 - USA
Museums and the Web,
Boston, USA
Program committee
Chair - Touching the Virtual -
Towards Tangible Virtualities

March 2002 - Italy
EVA - Electronic Imaging and
the Visual Arts, Florence, Italy
The Virtual Dead Sea Scrolls
and the Electronic Art Garden

September 2001
- Italy
ICHIM 2001
Politecnico di Milano, Milano,
Italy

Program Committee
Paper - From the First Millennium
to the Third, the Content is
the Message

July 2001 - Scotland
EVA2001, Glasgow, July, 2001
Paper - The Virtual Aura
and the Digital Flâneur
Conference Proceedings,
Editor James Hemsley
VASARI UK

March 2001 - Italy
Museums and the Web 2001,
Seattle, USA
Program Committee
Plenary Closing Session
The Virtual Aura

February 2000 - UK
ESRC Research Seminar -
Museums and Society,
University of Leicester, UK
Paper - Portals of Curiosities,
The Museums Online

March 99 - USA
Museums and the Web- 99 - New
Orleans, USA
Program Committee
Paper - Linking and Thinking
The Museum@School

Guest Curator - Event, Udi Aloni,
In the End, God was Dead.
Plenary Closing Session -
Socialising the Virtual Space

October 98 - Canada
Art Gallery of Ontario,
Toronto, Canada
Guest Speaker Education
Round Table
Presentation -Interactive Education

September 98 - USA
Knowledge Creation -
Knowledge Sharing -
Knowledge Preservation
The 1998 Museum
Computer Network Conference
Santa Monica, USA
Workshop -Empowering the
Visitor at the Museum Web Site:
Designing Points of Response
and Interaction for the Visitor
Paper - In the Light of the
Menorah: Story of a Symbol -
A 3D Exhibition

April 98 - Canada
Museums and the Web Conference,
98, Toronto, Canada
Chair - "Rich Experiences"
Paper -The Museum Website
as a Two Way Communication
Vehicle

November 97 - Austria
OKS, Osterreichischen
Kultur-Service, Vienna, Austria
Guest Speaker
The forum, " Von der Kunst
Schule ze machen"
Report -Interactive Education,
The Israel Museum, Jerusalem

December 97 -Singapore
Introduction: @rt a Cyberart
show by Lin Hsin Hsin,®

Caldwell House, Chijmes,
Singapore, 1997

March 97 - USA
Museums and the Web:
An International Conference,
Los Angeles, USA
Workshop -Making Your Site
Interactive
Chair - "Museum Applications
of the Web Experience"

October 97 - USA
Museum Computer Network '97
St. Louis, USA
Communication within the
Museum and Its Community
within the Community of Museums
The Annual Conference of the
Computer Network.
Workshop - The Interactive Website
Paper - Making New Connections
on the Web
The Interactive Web-site

September 97 - France
ICHIM 97', Paris, France.
Fourth International Conference
on Hypermedia and
Interactivity in Museums
Paper -The Fourth Wall -
The Virtual in the Museum

July 97 - Jerusalem
The Dead Sea Scrolls- Fifty
Tears after Their Discovery,
Major Issues and New Approaches,
Jerusalem, Israel
Chair - Computer-Assisted Research
on the Dead Sea Scrolls

November 96 - Canada
Museum Computer Network
MCN '96/CHIN '96,
Ottawa, Canada
Reaching Museum Audiences
Using New Technology,
Paper -The Virtual Art Experience -
Beyond the Museum Walls
Children of the World Draw Jerusalem

September 96 - Austria
ICOM, CECA '96, Vienna
On Site and Worldwide,
New Strategies for Communication
in Museums
Paper - The Virtual Art Experience
Beyond the Museum Walls

May 96 - Israel
Info 96' , Tel Aviv, Israel,
Information in Education:
Leisure Time on the Computer,
Constructive or Destructive.
Paper - Museums Without Walls,
the Real and the Virtual

October 95 - USA
ICHIM 95' - MCN9
San Diego, USA
Hands on Hypermedia &
Interactivity in Museum
Paper - Museums and Art

on the Internet

May 95 - Israel
Info 95', Tel Aviv, Israel, Internet
Applications
Paper -"Art and Museums
on the Internet"


 





Whose History is it anyway?
PROphile, Magazine of the Friends of The National Archives, UK
Vol 19, No1, April 2008

The Israel Museum launches new website
People and Computers
(Interview with Avi Bilovsku, in Hebrew) 7.04.08

Quality, Accessibility and Usability
A Handbook on cultural websites user interaction
Chapter: 1.1.1. Current trends in web services (in print)

Hazan S. (2007)
Cultural Institutions Take on a [Second] Life of Their Own
International Journal of Digital Cultural Heritage and E-Tourism (IJDCE).
For a special Issue on Digital Matters
and Intangible Heritage

Hazan S. (2006) 'A crisis of authority: old lamps for new', in Theorizing Digital Cultural Heritage, Ed. Fiona Cameron and Sarah Kenderdine,
MIT Press

Hazan S. (2006) 'An overview
of e-content in Israel
' in E-content: Voices from the Ground, Peter A. Bruck and Osama Manzar,
Digital Empowerment
Foundation World Summit
Award, New Dehli.

Hazan S. and D. Winer (2005)
Conference Report:
The Conference on Digitization
of Science and Cultural Heritage
,
in Visual Resources
Volume XXI Number 4 2005
,
The Charlesworth Group,
Wakefield.Hazan, (2005)

'Weaving science webs',
in E-learning and Virtual
Science Centers
, Ed.
Leo Tan Wee Hin and
R. Subramaniam,
Idea Group Publishing, Hershey.

Hazan (2005) 'The virtual Dead Sea Scrolls and the electronic art garden' in James Hemsley (ed.)
Digital Applications for Cultural and Heritage Institutions
,
Selected Papers from the
EVA Conferences,
London:
Ashgate.

Hazan, S. (2004) 'Locating
[Israeli] digital art - artists
think global and act local
'
in Regeneration of Digital
Art, The International Symposium
of Digital Art in Taiwan
, Council
for Cultural Affairs, Executive
Yuan,National Museum of
Fine Arts
National Chiao-Tung University:
Taiwan. Download also PDF in English and Chinese
Symposium: The Regeneration
of Digital Arts, International
Symposium on Digital Art


Museums and Intangible
Heritage

ICOM- International Councel
of Museums
Living Together; looking
through the lens

Weaving Community Webs:
A position paper
Thematic Issues
Issue 5: Virtual Communities
and Collaboration
Download Pdf
January 2004

A new marketplace of ideas –
harnessing virtual communities
to build symbiotic relationships.

An interview with Susan Hazan
By Joost van Kasteren,
Digicult journalist
DigiCult Info. - A Newsletter
on Digital Culture -
Issue 7 ISSN 1609-3941

Paper - The Musesphere and
the E-Museum
Download Pdf
Visual Knowledges, University
of Edinburgh

Institute for Advanced Studies
in the Humanities, The University
of Edinburgh Arts and Humanities
Research Institute, University of
Glasgow Edinburgh College of Art
Panel: Exhibition and display
September 17, 2003

July 2003
,Paper - The Virtual Aura

ASA Decennial Conference
Anthropology and Science,
Manchester Univ.

Panel: Exhibition experiments:
technologies and cultures of
Convenor: Sharon Macdonald


2003 Edutainment
in 3D virtual worlds.
The SEE experience

Selected Papers from an
International Conference,
Museums and the Web,
Charlotte, March 2003,
Edited by David Bearman
and Jennifer Trant,
Archives & Museum Informatics,
Pittsburgh, USA, 2003

March 2003
The Virtual Aura:
the technologies of exhibition
and the exhibition of technologies

'Researching Museums' Seminar
University of Leicester Department
of Museum Studies

November
2002
The Virtual Dead
Sea Scrolls and the Electronic
Art Garden
EVA - Electronic Imaging
and the Visual Arts

Conference proceedings, Florence


NINCH Community
Report 2001:
An Annual Report from the Field

NET>COM.ORG.MUSEUM

Hazan
July 2002

Museum Learning Online:
guidelines for good practice
For museums and galleries
developing good practice
in museum learning projects
for the web medium
Written and compiled by
Peter Clarke
Acknowledegments
November 2000—February 2001
Resource: The Council for
Museums, Archives
and Libraries


The Israel Museum and the
Electronic Surrogate

Cultivate Interactive, issue 5,
1 October 2001

From the First
Millennium to the Third, the
Content is the Message

Selected Papers from an
International
Conference, ICHIM 2001,
Politecnico di Milano,
Milano, Italy, Edited by
David Bearman and Jennifer Trant,
Archives & Museum Informatics,
Pittsburgh, USA, 2001

September 2001The Virtual Aura
and the Digital Flâneur

EVA2001, Glasgow, July, 2001
Conference Proceedings,
Editor James Hemsley
VASARI UK

July 2001The Virtual Aura
Selected Papers from an
International
Conference, Museums and the
Web 2001 - Seattle March, 2001,
Edited by David Bearman and
Jennifer Trant, Archives &
Museum Informatics, Pittsburgh,
USA, 2001

March 2001An International
Conference for Museum
Professionals Working on the Web


Museums and the Web 1999 -
New Orleans, Louisiana,
March 1999, Library Hi Tech News,
MCB, University Press, Bradford,
UK. No. 165, 1999

March 1999
Museum@school: The Ruth
Youth Wing Connects the
Israel Museum to
the Classroom

The Israel Museum Journal,
Volume XV II,
The Israel Museum,
Jerusalem, Israel

Summer 1999
Linking and Thinking -
The Museum@School

Selected Papers from an
International Conference,
Museums and the Web 1999 -
New Orleans, Louisiana,
March, 1999¨, Edited by
David Bearman and
Jennifer Trant,
Archives & Museum Informatics,
Pittsburgh, USA, 1999

March 1999Introduction:
@rt a Cyberart show by
Lin Hsin Hsin,®

Caldwell House, Chijmes,
Singapore,

1997 The Fourth Wall -
The Virtual in the Museum

Proceedings/Actes,
September 97,
ICHIM 97, Fourth International
Conference on Hypermedia in
Museum, MusËe de Louvre,
Paris, Archives & Museum
Informatics, Pittsburgh, USA,
1997

The Fourth Wall - The Virtual
in the Museum

Museum Interactive Multimedia
1997: Cultural Heritage Systems
Design and Interfaces, Edited by
David Bearman and
Jennifer Trant
Archives & Museum Informatics,
Pittsburgh, USA. 1997

September 1997
Virtual Museum Tour -
From Reality to Fantasy and Back

(in Hebrew)
Mishkafayim
Art Magazine Quarterly
, No.28,
Yedioth Ahronoth, Tel Aviv,

1997The Virtual Museum
The Israel Museum Journal,
Volume XV
The Israel Museum,
Jerusalem, Israel

Summer 1997
Children of the World
Draw Jerusalem - Museum
Video Window

MCN Spectra, A Quarterly
Publication of the Museum
Computer Network, Volume
24/2 Winter. New York, NY,
USA,

1996/97
The Virtual Art Experience -
Beyond the Museum Walls

New Strategies for Communication
in Museums,
Proceedings of ICOM/CECA '96,
WUV, Universtatsverlag, Vienna, Austria.
1996


Virtual Art Column (in Hebrew)

P-Soup - Can a Museum be fun -
and should it?
MUSE - Art Quarterly, The Israel Museum,
Jerusalem and Yidioth Achronot,
summer 2001

Click to Go - Taking Home
The Experience...

MUSE - Art Quarterly,
The Israel Museum,
Jerusalem and Yidioth Achronot,
summer 2001

"Telematic Connections:
The Virtual Embrace, Human to
human, human to machine,
machine-to-machine,
human to nature,

MUSE - Art Quarterly,
The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
and Yidioth Achronot¨,
spring 2001

Ghosts, lies and interface
MUSE - Art Quarterly,
The Israel Museum,
Jerusalem and Yidioth Achronot,
winter 2000


The Webby Awards

MUSE
- Art Quarterly,
The Israel Museum,
Jerusalem and Yidioth Achronot,
summer 2000

Virtually a Museum
MUSE - Art Quarterly,
The Israel Museum,
Jerusalem and Yidioth Achronot,
spring
2000