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Vanina Hofman
Vanina Hofman is a lecturer in the history and art history department of the Universitat Rovira i Virgili (Catalonia), where she is also the director of the Unit Aula de Cinema i arts audiovisuals. 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 unconventional arts histories and the digital materialities. She has published Divergent Practices of Media Arts Preservation: Remembering and Forgetting in the Digital Culture (Prometeo Libros, 2019) based on previous fieldwork conducted in Argentina. She has been involved in several interdisciplinary R&D projects. Currently, she is part of MESJENET, funded by the Spanish Government through its programme ‘Knowledge Generation Projects’ (PID2021-128069NB-I00), where she is responsible for the collection and archiving of memories from both direct and indirect witnesses of the floods in the middle Nile Valley before the construction of the Aswan Dam, and the design of a multi-platform audio-visual storytelling for dissemination purposes.
Contact: History and Art History Department, Universitat Rovira i Virgili (URV), Avinguda Catalunya, 35, off. 4.15, 43002 Tarragona, Catalonia, Spain.
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