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Hava Aldouby, Associate Professor

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The Open University of Israel Department of Literature, Language, and the Arts One University Road P.O.B. 808 Ra’anana 4353701, Israel
Office:972-9-778-1581 Email:havaal@openu.ac.il

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Areas of Interest
  • Art history
  • Moving-image art
  • Video art
  • Experimental cinema
  • New media art
  • Neuroaesthetics
  • Art-science interfaces
  • Migratory aesthetics

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2009
PhD, Department of Art History, Summa cum Laude
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Awarded Allan Bronfman Prize, Hebrew University 2009
Dissertation title: Fellini's Art Historical Hypertext: The Role of Painting in Federico Fellini's Cinematic Discourse (1960s-70s). Advisors: Prof. Haim Finkelstein, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev; Prof. Yehuda Moraly, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
2001
MA, Department of Art History, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Dissertation title: Federico Fellini’s Graphic Oeuvre – Sources and Significance. Advisor: Prof. Milly Heyd, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
1992
BA, Magna cum laude, Art History and Theater Studies, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
2013-2014
Post doctoral fellowship
2013-2014 Hebrew University of Jerusalem, I-CORE Center of Research Excellence - ‘Da’at Hamakom’, Center for the Study of Cultures of Place in the Modern Jewish World
Research project: ‘Medium, Body, Place: Digital Moving-Image Aesthetics, as Related to Contemporary Jewish Experience’
2023-
The Open University of Israel; Associate Professor
2014-2023
The Open University of Israel; Senior lecturer
2014-2016
Hebrew University of Jerusalem, I-CORE Center of Research Excellence - ‘Da’at Hamakom’; Research Associate
2002-2015
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
2010-2016 Teaching associate, School of the Arts and MA 
                   program in Cultural Studies
2002-2009 Teaching associate, Department of Theater 
                   Studies
2011-2014
Bar Ilan University, Department of Comparative Literature; Teaching associate
2010-2013
Bezalel Academy of Art and Design; Teaching associate
2002-2011
Shenkar College of Engineering and Design; Teaching associate
2003-2004
The Open University of Israel; Teaching instructor
2016-
Artistic Director, The Open University Gallery, Ra’anana
2023
Member of organizing committee, with Dr. Gak Raz(TAU, Israel) and Prof. Doron Friedman(Reichmann U., Israel), International workshop: Empathies, Brain, and the Moving Image, Research workshop of the Israel Science Foundation, 14-16 March 2023
2016
 Organizer, international symposium: “New Media and the Arts – Interfaces, Challenges and New Insights”
The Open University of Israel, 23 November 2016
2014
 Initiator and organizing committee member, international symposium: “Haptic Visuality in Video-Art: Neuroscience in Dialogue with Art Theory and Aesthetics”, Hebrew University School of the Arts and Safra Brain Research Center, 9-10 April 2014
2013
 Organizing committee member, international conference: “Autonomy and Anatomy of the Moving Image”, Jerusalem Cinématheque, Bezalel College of Art and Design, and Hebrew University School of the Arts, 7-9 July 2013
2011
 Initiator and organizing committee member, international symposium: "Federico Fellini, Between Life and Fantasy", Hebrew University School of the Arts and Department of Latin American and Romance Studies, 3-4 April 2011
2014
Vigevani Research Project Prize, Hebrew University of Jerusalem (2014; with Prof. Amir Amedi, Hebrew University, and Prof. Vittorio Gallese, Università degli studi di Parma)
2012
Israel Science Foundation Publication Grant in the Humanities
2009
Allan Bronfman Prize for Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation in the Humanities, Hebrew University
July 2015
Curator, Archaeology in Reverse: Phil Solomon. Exhibition of video installations, Hansen House, Center for Art and Technology, Jerusalem.
Curator, The Secret Garden, Jerusalem Film Festival 2015.
1998-20001
The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
2000-2001 Assistant curator, department of prints and drawings
1998-2000  Freelance associate curator

2019 - 2021 -Initiator, Principal Investigator - Assessing Embodiment in Aesthetic Experience of Digital Art, Open University 

2020-2022 - Initiator and research partner - Erasmus Plus Mobility Grant between Open U and Danube U Krems, Austria

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The European Canon and Contemporary Artists’ Moving Image. 
Under contract with Palgrave Macmillan, forthcoming 2023  

Federico Fellini: Painting in Film, Painting on Film. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2013

Hava Aldouby, ed., Shifting Interfaces: An Anthology of Presence, Agency, and Empathy in Early 21st Century Media Arts. Leuven, Belgium: Leuven University Press, 2020 

Hava Aldouby, David Chandler, Al Miner and Mae Petra-Wong, Ori Gersht: History Reflecting. Boston: MFA (Museum of Fine Arts) Publications, 2014

Guest editor, special issue: Arts 9(2), Radicant Patterns in Israeli Art, Fall 2020. 

Supervisor of course development and reader: An Introduction to 20th Century Art (forthcoming 2024).

Course developer and academic editor of online website and reader: Surrealism (forthcoming 2024).

Course developer and lecturer: Art in the Digital Age (forthcoming 2023).

Course developer and academic editor of online website and reader: On the Threshold of Modernism: 19th Century Western Art (2019), 418 pp.

“Ruptured Envelopes, Double Shells: Skins in Art at the Age of Global Mobility.” Accepted for publication in Art Journal (forthcoming Winer 2022).

Hava Aldouby, Béatrice Hasler, Tehila Nadav, and Doron Friedman, “Viewing Images of Jagged Texture in Digital Artwork Affects Body Sensations: A Virtual Reality Study.” Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity and the Arts (in press).

 “Appropriating Canaanism: Ruth Patir’s Reanimation of Judean Pillar Figurines.” Arts 11(5). October 2022; https://doi.org/10.3390/arts11050108

“An Outsider in Grand Theft Auto: Phil Solomon’s In-Game Filmmaking.” Art Journal 80(2), Summer 2020, 76-86.

“Balancing on Shifting Ground: Migratory Aesthetics and Recuperation of Presence in Ori Gersht’s Video Installation: On Reflection,” Crossings: Journal of Migration & Culture, 10:2, pp. 161–181https://intellectdiscover.com/content/journals/10.1386/cjmc_00001_1

“Fragile Traces, Treacherous Sands: Ronen Sharabani and Micha Ullman’s Intergenerational Encounter.” Arts 9(2), Fall 2020, 18 pp. (n.p.) 

Marta Calbi, Hava Aldouby, Ori Gersht, Nunzio Langiulli, Vittorio Gallese, and Maria Alessandra Umiltà, “Haptic Aesthetics and Bodily Properties of Ori Gersht’s Digital Art: A Behavioral and Eye-Tracking Study.” Frontiers in Psychology 10:2520. 2019. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2019.02520  [Hava Aldouby initiated the project, participated in planning the experiment, wrote the introduction and part of the discussion].

“The physical anxiety of the form itself: A Haptic Reading of Phil Solomon’s Experimental Films”. Projections: The Journal for Movies and Minds 10:1 (2016), 86–113.

“Miniature Tombstones from the Cyprus Detention Camps, 1946-49”, 
 Ars Judaica 3 (April 2007), 91-100.

“A Jungian Approach to Federico Fellini’s Visual Imagery”, Harvest – Journal for Jungian Studies 47:2 (London: Karnac Books, 2001), 96-118.

“L’immaginario visivo di Federico Fellini”, Fellini Amarcord 2 (November 2005), 36-48 (translated from Harvest 47:2) [Italian].

"Fellini's Visual Style(s): A Phenomenological Account," in Frank Burke, Marguerite Waller, and Marita Gubareva (eds.), A Companion to Federico Fellini. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley Blackwell, 2020, 223-236.

“Art and Presence: Investigating Embodiment in a Virtual Art Gallery,” in Hava Aldouby (ed.), Shifting Interfaces: An Anthology of Presence, Agency, and Empathy in Early 21st Century Media Arts. Leuven, Belgium: Leuven University Press, 2020, 59-73.

“Tightrope Walking on the Threshold of Virtual Reality: Phil Solomon’s Filmmaking in Grand Theft Auto,” in Ruthie Abeliovich and Edwin Seroussi (eds.), Borderlines: Essays on Mapping and the Logic of Place. Sciendo (De Gruyter Poland), 2019, 69-90.

“Camminare su una fune tesa sulla soglia della realtà virtuale:  Il cinema di Phil Solomon in Grand Theft Auto.” In Matteo Bittanti (ed.), Fenomenologia di Grand Theft Auto. Milan: Edizioni Mimesis, 2019, 275-298 [Italian; translation of previous item].

“Courting Absence, Restoring Presence: Ori Gersht and the Moving Image”, in Hava Aldouby, David Chandler, Al Miner and Mae Petra-Wong, Ori Gersht: History Reflecting. Boston: MFA (Museum of Fine Arts) Publications, 2014.

“A Gust of Wind: Nogah Engler,” in exh. cat. A Gust of Wind: Nogah Engler, The Open University Gallery, April-August 2021

“Shifting Sands: Ronen Sharabani and Micha Ullman – An Intergenerational Encounter,” in exh. cat. Place/Non-Place: Ronen Sharabani Meets Micha Ullman, The Open University Gallery, January-March 2020

“Inverted Blonds and Black Witches: Probing Beyond the Language Barrier,” in exh. cat. Poem/Po-Eima: A Hair in the Scene of the Crime, The Open University Gallery, November 2018-January 2019

“A Filmmaker in the World of Gaming: Place and Non-Place in Phil Solomon’s Cinema,” in exh. cat. Archaeology in Reverse, Phil Solomon, Hansen Center for Art and Technology, Jerusalem, July-August 2015

“Between Jerusalem and Liberty City: An Interview with Phil Solomon,” in exh. cat. Archaeology in Reverse, Phil Solomon, Hansen Center for Art and Technology, Jerusalem, July-August 2015