Vanina Hofman

Vanina Hofman is a Lecturer at the History and Art History Department of the Universitat Rovira i Virgili (Catalonia) where she also directs the Aula de Cine i Arts Audiovisuals. She  develops her work in a hybrid territory between academic research and cultural production. Her field of interest lies in the intersections among Art, Science, Technology & Society. She is particularly interested in the processes involved in the construction of memory in digital culture, the archiving of media arts, the unconventional arts histories and the digital materialities. She has recently published the book “Divergent Practices of Media Arts Preservation. Remembering and Forgetting in the Digital Culture” based on previous fieldwork conducted in Argentina. She is part of the interdisciplinary Research Group MIRMED-GIAC (URV, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and Institut Català d’Arqueologia Clàssica).