Biographies

Prof. Moshe Caine

Department of Photographic Communications Hadassah Academic College Jerusalem

Moshe Caine is a graduate of the Hebrew University Jerusalem, Philosophy & Sociology (1977), the Harrow College of Technology & Art (now Westminster University, London) Photography Film & Television (1980), and Coventry Polytechnic (today Coventry University Electronic Imaging (1989).
Prof. Caine's work mirrors the evolving decades of the digitization of Photography and related visual media. During this period, he has specialized in a wide gamut of fields, spanning Analogue and Digital photography, Video, Interactive Multimedia, VR and AR, Multispectral Imaging, Photogrammetry, 3D scanning, Reflective Transformation Imaging, Digital Asset Management, Digital Publishing, UI and UX, and other imaging technologies.
Moshe Caine is one of the pioneers of the multimedia industry in Israel, establishing and running the Icons Multimedia company in Jerusalem for 20 years (1989-2009). Over the past three decades Prof. Caine has specialized in digital solutions for cultural heritage preservation institutions, Archaeology, conservation, restoration and presentation. He has a long experience working with museums and educational institutions.
Since 1981 he has taught in both undergraduate and graduate programs, including the Bezalel Academy of Art & Design (1981-2009), Haifa University (2011-2015), Emunah College (1982-2019), and the Hadassah Academic College (since 1984).
Between 2005-2011 he served as head of the department of Interactive Communications at the Hadassah College and between 2015-2019 he chaired the department of Photographic Communication in the Academic College.

Dr. Antonino Cosentino

CHSOS Director, Cultural Heritage Scientist

Dr. Antonino Cosentino is the current director of “Cultural Heritage Science Open Source” - CHSOS. This initiative develops and disseminates practical methods for scientific examination of Art and Archaeology. Dr. Cosentino is a physicist specialized in imaging and analytical techniques for art examination. He has carried out scientific analysis of important works of art on behalf of a variety of museums while he was a researcher for European and American institutions. Dr. Cosentino has delivered imaging and spectroscopy training to cultural heritage institutions around the world and he has also authored a number of influential articles on the subject of technical art examination.

Sorin Hermon

Associate Professor
STARC, The Cyprus Institute

Sorin focuses his scientific activities on two convergent fields: 3D approaches to the study of the past and big data for knowledge repositories. He leads the Working Group on the creation of DIGILAB, the data platform of E-RIHS, the European Research Infrastructure on Heritage Science. He obtained competitive grants from various EU programs, most recent ones being ARIADNE-plus, E-RIHS PP and GRAVITATE. Sorin is author of one book, editor of several books and peer-reviewed conference proceedings and author of more than 70 scientific papers. He is currently supervising five PhD students and is regularly teaching courses in the Science and Technology in Archaeology doctoral program of the Cyprus Institute and coordinates the MSc program on Digital Cultural Heritage.

Graham Diprose

Researcher, Author, Co-Chair EVA (Electronic Visualization and the Arts) London Conferences

Former Senior Lecturer in Photography at the London College of Communication, UAL, Graham co-partnered in two major River Thames ‘Then and Now’ projects. ‘River Thames Revisited: In the Footsteps of Henry Taunt’ and ‘London’s Changing Riverscape’, and
became concerned that the original Silver Based prints from a century ago, might last longer than his new born digital images. This led him to research long term digital image preservation. He is Co-chair of EVA (Electronic Visualisation in the Arts) London Conference. He is also co-author of the textbook ‘ Photography: The New Basics’, published by Thames & Hudson.

Dr. Susan Hazan

CEO, Digital Heritage, Israel
Chair Europeana Network Association

Emeritus, Senior Curator of New Media and Head of the Internet Office at the Israel Museum, Jerusalem.
Masters, and PhD research at Goldsmiths College, University of London in Media and Communications focused on electronic architectures in the contemporary museum.
Former Curator of New Media and Head of the Internet Office at The Israel Museum, Jerusalem.

Dominik Lengyel

Chair for Architecture and Visualisation University in Cottbus, Germany

Dominik Lengyel holds the Chair for Architecture and Visualisation as full professor at BTU University in Cottbus, Germany. Member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts in Salzburg. Studied architecture at the Universities of Stuttgart, Paris-Tolbiac and ETH Zürich. Worked as architect at Prof. O. M. Ungers. Co-Founder of Lengyel Toulouse Architects Berlin, office for architectural visualisation, with Catherine Toulouse. Major research area is the visualisation of archaeological hypotheses. Fundings by German Research Foundation DFG, Gerda Henkel Foundation, Federal Ministries of Education and Research BMBF, of Economic Affairs and Energy BMWI and of the Interior, Building and Community BMI.

Shai Halevi

Pro Documenter for Israel Antiquities Authority

For 25 years, I have been working (and creating) as a photographer. I have done different types of photography during this time: photojournalism, commercial photography, occurred art photography and more. Those photographic activities were done for different organizations and publications, e.g., Bezalel art academy, Israel education office, Shoken publication and more.
Since 2011 I am in charge of multispectral photography of the Dead Sea Scrolls at the IAA, and since 2018 am also undertaking the photogrammetric documentation for the Jerusalem and Judea archeological sites and artifacts.

Prof. Dr. Stefan Simon

Direktor Rathgen-Forschungslabor
Staatliche Museen zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz Schloßstr

Stefan Simon is since 2005 Director of the Rathgen Research Laboratory with the National Museums Berlin. Trained as a heritage scientist, Simon earned his Ph.D. in Chemistry from the Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich. He served as a Council Member and Vice President (2009-2011) of ICCROM, Rome.

As Inaugural Director of Yale’s IPCH and Director of the Yale’s Global Cultural Heritage Initiatives (2014-2019), Stefan Simon prioritized the advancement of sustainable conservation strategies triggered by global climate change and the green museum debate, and questions of conservation documentation, authenticity and access in the digital age. He has co-authored and published more than 150 articles on the preservation of cultural heritage.

Sharon Tager

Head of Conservation: The Israel Museum, Jerusalem

Sharon Tager is Head of Conservation at the Israel Museum, Jerusalem. She obtained her MA in Art History and Theory from Goldsmiths College, University of London in 1997, and graduated as a painting conservator after completing the three year postgraduate program at The Courtauld Institute, University of London in 2001. Sharon practiced as a conservator in the U.K. and in Israel, working on both national and private collections. Her particular interests lay in conservation emergency preparedness for cultural heritage, the formation of a database for artist interviews for Israeli artists and the challenges of preservation and conservation of contemporary art in the museum sphere.

Dr Kathryn E. Piquette

UCL Centre for Digital Humanities

Kathryn E. Piquette received her MA and PhD in Egyptology from University College London (UCL), specialising in early Egyptian writing and art with emphasis on its materiality. Her subsequent research focuses on Egyptian and Near Eastern ‘visual’ culture, and the development and application of digital imaging techniques for research. In particular, Kathryn specialises in the computational imaging methods of Reflectance Transformation Imaging and Spectral Imaging. Currently a Senior Researcher at the UCL Centre for Digital Humanities, Kathryn also lectures on digital approaches to cultural heritage and provides imaging courses and services for UCL Advanced Imaging Consultants. In addition to positions at the Cologne Center for eHumanities (CCeH) and the Institut für Altertumskunde, Universität zu Köln, Kathryn has held a Marie-Curie COFUND Fellowship at Freie Universität Berlin, as well as fellowships and post-doctoral positions at the University of Oxford, Cambridge, UCL, and Trinity College Dublin. She has worked in Egypt since 1999 with more recent work entailing the application of advanced imaging to graphical material at Qubbet el-Hawa, Deir Anba Hadra, Philae, and, most recently, for the C2 Project: Royal Cache Wadi survey. Her other projects deal with production techniques of relief carving, recovering damaged inscriptions, as well as non-destructive analysis of mummy cartonnage, carbonised papyri, and multilayered wall paintings.

Michael Maggen

Head of Paper Conservation The Israel Museum Jerusalem

Michael Maggen graduated Bezalel Academy of Design and Fine Art in 1983, he joined the conservation program in Istituto Centrale per il Restauro e la Conservazione del Patrimonio Archivistico e Librario and graduated with a Master degree in 1985. He Started to work as a paper conservator in the Israel Museum (IM) in 1986. Since 1999 he has headed the paper conservation IM.
Publications: 20 papers on various conservation topics including the conservation The Aleppo Codex 10th century the oldest Pentateuch in Hebrew and the conservation of The Diary of Ilan Ramon the First Israeli Astound the diary was found with shuttle debris.

Alexander Wiegmann

Head of the Field Technologies Branch, Israel Antiquities Authority

Alexander Wiegmann (BA, MA Archaeology, Hebrew University of Jerusalem) was born in Moscow, Russia and immigrated to Israel in 2004. He has worked in the Israel Antiquities Authority since 2010. He has served as an antiquities inspector in the Jerusalem region, as the Western Jerusalem district archaeologist and is currently head of the Field Technologies Branch.

Prof. Dr. Mona Hess

Chairholder of the Chair for Digital Technologies in Heritage Conservation (DTHC)
Lead of DTHC at the Centre for Heritage Conservation Studies and Technologies (KDWT).
Additional titles: Vice womens officer of the University of Bamberg,
Senior Honorary Research associate at UCL Digital Humanities.

Mona Hess has graduate degrees in architecture from Munich University of Technology, heritage conservation from University of Bamberg, both Germany, and a PhD in 3D imaging metrology for cultural heritage from University College London (UK). She has 16 years’ experience in interdisciplinary research projects for 3D imaging metrology and digital documentation for cultural heritage buildings and museum artefacts (e.g. EU-Cost action COSCH / Getty Conservation Institute, L.A.). She worked at UCL from 2008 to 2017 at UCL Museums and UCL Geomatic Engineering as research manager and research associate, and was module coordinator for the elective course 'Technologies in Arts and Cultural Heritage' for the Bachelor of Arts and Sciences at University College London, United Kingdom. She keeps close ties to UCL as Honorary Senior Research Fellow for UCL Digital Humanities. Since 2017 she is full professor, chairholder and course director for the new M.Sc. in Digital Technologies in Heritage Conservation at the University of Bamberg, Germany, and vice-womens' officer of the university since 2019.

Prof. Rivka Rabinovich

National Natural History Collections, Institute of Earth Sciences, Institute of Archaeology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

My research straddles the interface between zoological, geological and humanistic studies in that it focuses on faunal remains as paleoenvironmental indicators of past human societies. Much of the work centers on taphonomic paleontological studies that elucidate the agents and processes responsible for the creation of fossil faunal assemblages along the Miocene- Pliocene. Within this broad discipline I have been involved in the study of fauna from Pleistocene sites ranging in time from nearly one million year before present to the Holocene recent historical period. The scope and intensity of my research was considerably expanded to focus on the paleoecologic, taphonomic and taxonomic implications of faunal assemblages from the southern Levant.

Dr. Amit Re'em

The Israel Antiquities Authority

Amit Re'em is a senior archaeologist in the The Israel Antiquities Authority
(IAA). He has been exploring Jerusalem for nearly 30 years and serves as the Jerusalem regional Archeologist of the IAA. He has conducted dozens of excavations in Jerusalem and published numerous articles on ancient Jerusalem. His main interest is Jerusalem during the days of the Crusader and recently he submitted his PHD on the "Crusader Burial customs in the Latin kingdom of Jerusalem".

Thomas Flynn

Cultural Heritage Lead at Sketchfab

Thomas began working with 3D at the British Museum and subsequently co-founded museuminabox.org. In his role as Cultural Heritage Lead at Sketchfab, Thomas Flynn supports cultural organizations and projects of all sizes in developing and delivering 3D digitization, display and outreach programs. Thomas is also co-chair emeritus of the IIIF 3D Community Group. For more information about this work or to contact Thomas, please visit: sketchfab.com/museums.

Adam Havkin

(https://www.scanthecity.com/aboutus)

Adam Havkin is a creative technologist expert in capturing reality and creation of immersive content and Mechanical Engineer B.sc. Has extensive experience in 3D scanning techniques in varying scales for a variety of industries. Founder of Scan The City Studio, based in Tel Aviv, Israel. The studio was established in 2018, focusing on 3D scanning methodologies, combining different techniques to create digital models. The studio clients come from different and diverse fields such as art, heritage, conservation, gaming and more.

Doron Altaratz

Senior Lecturer
Hadassah Academic College Jerusalem

Doron Altaratz is an academic researcher, educator, and media artist who strives to integrate his creative practices with theoretical research. Doron holds a B.F.A from Bezalel academy of Art and Design and an M.P.S. from New York University's Interactive Telecommunications Program. Currently, Doron is pursuing his PhD at Hebrew University's communications department. Doron creative activities involve the exploration of virtual, three-dimensional experiences which are based on photographic representations.
Additionally, his current theoretical research deals with algorithmic technologies' impact on user interaction, explicitly concerning computational photography and visual simulations.

Antonella Guidazzoli

Head of Visual Information Lab CINECA

Graduated at the University of Bologna (Italy), in Electronic Engineering in 1988 and in History, in 2007 “cum laude”. In 1988 joined CINECA. Currently head of CINECA VisiT lab. Her computer graphics activities have progressively covered different fields, ranging from scientific visualisation, scene reconstruction for forensic applications up to cultural heritage fruition, virtual archaeology, film making for edutainment, such as the 3D stereoscopic educational short movie "Apa the Etruscan" , awarded with FIAMP2012 , for which she acted as executive producer. She has published several papers presented in major conferences (such as, in particular, Siggraph 1999, 2000, 2004, 2006 and 2007) and Siggraph Asia 2011 Hong Kong and 2016 Macao. Recently she gave two Invited talks about "Open virtual heritage Applications: From Research tools to Emotional and Participatory Virtual Spaces at North Caroline and UCL Santa cruz (March 2015). She has continuously cooperated with the academic world, in particular with the University of Bologna where she has been a Member of the Steering Board of the Ph.D. Program in “History and Computer Science”. Furthermore she has worked in the organization of major events dedicated to scientific culture for Arte e scienza in Piazza and Festival della Scienza di Genova. She is responsible for the CINECA Summer Schools on “Computer Graphics and ICT for Cultural Heritage” (11 editions) She has been involved in the V_Must EU project Virtual Museum Transnational Network; Project Manager for the archaeological exhibition "A journey beyond life The Etruscans and afterlife through masterpieces and virtual reality"; Chair session Digital Heritage Granada.

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