Susan Hazan

Susan Hazan is a museum curator based in Jerusalem, Israel. She has been a curator at the Israel Museum for much of her career and is known for promoting digital aspects of museum access,[1][2][3] especially in the form of virtual museums.[4]

Susan Hazan
Photograph of Susan Hazan
Susan Hazan speaking at the
EVA London 2023 Conference
Born
Susan J. Markless

1952 (age 70–71)
London, England
NationalityDual Israeli/British
EducationGoldsmiths, University of London
OccupationMuseum curator
Years active1991 onwards
EmployerIsrael Museum
Known forHead of the Internet Office, Israel Museum; Chair of the Europeana Network Association; Dead Sea Scrolls digital project
Notable workIsrael Museum website (1995)
Websitemuseumsphere.com

Hazan studied for MA (2000), MPhil (2002), and PhD (2004) degrees at Goldsmiths, University of London,[5] with a thesis entitled Mapping the Musesphere: Cultures of Exhibition and Technologies of Display.[6]

Susan Hazan has been Senior Curator of New Media and Head of the Internet Office at the Israel Museum from 1991 to 2020.[5] In particular, she produced and developed the museum's first website from the mid-1990s.[7][8] She has also been instrumental in a digital project to make the Dead Sea Scrolls accessible more widely around the world in different languages.[9][10][11]

In parallel from 2004, Hazan has led the EVA/MINERA Jerusalem conference series, covering electronic visualisation and the arts.[12] She has also been Chair of the Europeana Network Association during 2021 to 2022,[13] with the aim to make museum collections around Europe accessible online, including the European Commission's New European Bauhaus initiative.[14]

Since 2019, Hazan has been the CEO of Digital Heritage, Israel.[15]

References
  1. "Take a Virtual Tour of 30 World-Class Museums & Safely Visit 2 Million Works of Fine Art". Open Culture. 21 March 2020. Retrieved 29 July 2023.
  2. "Libraries and Museums in an Era of Participatory Culture" (PDF). Washington, D.C.: Institute of Museum and Library Services. October 2011. Retrieved 29 July 2023.
  3. "פורום נשים בטכנולוגיה - כשטכנולוגיה ואומנות נפגשות" [Forum for women in technology – when technology and art meet] (in Hebrew). Israel Chamber of Information Technology. 15 June 2021. Retrieved 29 July 2023.
  4. Eglas, Ruth (25 April 2012). "A (virtual) museum visit". The Jerusalem Post. Retrieved 2 August 2023.
  5. "Susan Hazan". Museums and the Web Asia. 2012. Retrieved 29 July 2023.
  6. "Mapping the Musesphere: Cultures of Exhibition and Technologies of Display". Museosphere. Goldsmiths, University of London. 2004. Retrieved 29 July 2023.
  7. Sudilovsky, Judith (16 June 2016). "Taking museums into the digital age". The Jerusalem Post. Retrieved 2 August 2023.
  8. Hazan, S. (1995), "Museums and Art on the Internet", in Bearman, David (ed.), Hands On: Hypermedia & Interactivity in Museums: Selected Papers from the Third International Conference on Hypermedia and Interactivity in Museums, vol. 2 (ICHIM 95/MCN 95), Archives & Museum Informatics, pp. 284–285
  9. "Свитки Мёртвого моря" [Dead Sea Scrolls] (in Russian). Consulate General of Israel in St. Petersburg. 21 June 2012. Retrieved 29 July 2023.
  10. Yip, Joan (3 October 2012). "CityU students help on Chinese version of digital Dead Sea Scrolls". City University of Hong Kong. Retrieved 29 July 2023.
  11. "The Digital Dead Sea Scrolls". China: CCTV. July 2012. Retrieved 29 July 2023.
  12. Hemsley, James (2013). "The EVA Conference 1990–2012: Personal Reflections". In Bowen, Jonathan P.; Ng, Kia; Keene, Suzanne (eds.). Electronic Visualisation in Arts and Culture. Series on Cultural Computing. Springer. pp. 3–4. doi:10.1007/978-1-4471-5406-8_1. ISBN 978-1-4471-5405-1.
  13. "Europeana Network Association Annual Report 2021". Europeana. 2021. Retrieved 29 July 2023.
  14. "New European Bauhaus – an interview with Susan Hazan". Europeana. 2021. Retrieved 29 July 2023.
  15. "Susan Hazan". About Digital Heritage, Israel. Israel: Digital Heritage. Retrieved 29 July 2023.
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