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The Center for Digital Art
Curriculum Vitae

The Center for Digital Art is a dynamic platform for thinking, researching, producing, presenting, and analyzing contemporary art, as well as providing a meeting point for exchange between contemporary artists, curators, critics and the public.

Since it was established in 2001 in an abandoned school building in the industrial area of Holon, the Center has grown quite rapidly from a one-room gallery eight years ago.  It functions as a non-profit organization supported by the city of Holon.  As a public art space it consistently questions the place of art and art institutions within their society.  This brings to the front political and social issues we believe art should not be ignoring.  By expressing views that do not correlate in many cases with policies of the state, the definition of an art institute and a publicly
financed art space are examined and put into test.

In an effort to stimulate discourse in Israeli society, the center devotes a significant part of its work on art projects that foster questions about identity,  ethnicity, nationalism and cultural exchange.  This activity is lead by the overarching question: How can art institutes reflect and react to volatile conditions of culture and politics and how can art and its institutions take part in shaping these realities? The center initiates partnerships and collaborations with contemporary artists, theorists, writers, curators, and other institutions in the Middle East and the Balkan region, to explore how creative communities from different peripheries of the world can connect, learn from each other, and break down nationalistic or regional barriers. The activities of the center are concentrated in the following main areas:

 space devoted to exhibitions
 a research unit including video and media archive, library of printed matter, and conference room
 a residency program for artists and curators
 a publishing unit that includes online arts and culture magazine, “Ma'arav” (www.maarav.org.il), online
radio station,  “Halas” (www.halas.am) and publications of catalogues and books.
 an education unit focusing on lectures, gallery tours, community relations, and programs of youth
empowerment
 an administrative unit that works in parallel to all other units and backs up the activities of the center in
areas of financial management and fund raising

www.digitalartlab.org.il