Vanina Hofman
Researcher, teacher and cultural producer
Currently, she is Lecturer at the Department of History and Art History at the Rovira i Virgili University (URV). Her work focuses on archiving and preservation of contemporary arts, the construction of unconventional histories, the archaeology of media and the digital materialities. She has published the book Divergent practices for the preservation of media art. Remembering and forgetting in digital culture, awarded by Investiga-Cultura. She has also published articles in journals such as Artnodes Journal on Art, Science and Technology, Acoustic Space, Icono14 and InCirculation. She has presented her research at several international conferences.
She is member of the Mediaccions research group of the Open University of Catalonia (UOC) and she actively collaborates with the group Design, Art, Technoscience and Society (DARTS). Between 2006 and 2020 she ran the independent research-creation platform Taxonomedia.