Doron Altaratz

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023 The National Trinity The Jerusalem Design Week, Hansen House, Jerusalem
2018 The New Jerusalem, arebyte gallery, London, UK
2018 Visions of Heaven and Hell, The Villa Gallery, Jerusalem
2016 Memory Mountain, Artists House, Jerusalem

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024 ARKIVE The Jerusalem Design Week, Hansen House, Jerusalem
2024 The Cube Artists studio’s 40th-anniversary, Jerusalem
2021 PUNCH.GENERATE.FREAK The Jerusalem Design Week, Hansen House, Jerusalem
2019 Woven Time The Jerusalem Design Week, Hansen House, Jerusalem
2016 UNIVERSUM The International Photography Festival, Rosentalis Gallery, Jaffa
2014 Oasis Mosaic Night Light Festival, Tel Aviv
2014 RE-Imagining Jerusalem Beit Avi-Chai, Jerusalem
2012 Personal History The Jerusalem Cinematheque, Jerusalem
2008 The People Are The Heroes Now Manofim Festival, Jerusalem
2007 Ticho House VIP event The Ticho House, Jerusalem
2007 Nisoy Kelim 4 Bikuray HaEtim center, Tel Aviv
2005 IMC Expo The Chelsea Art Museum, New York City
2005 The Smart Gallery Show Smarts Gallery, New York City
2005 T- Minus Time laps Synchronicity Space Gallery, New York City

ARTIST RESIDENCY
2018 arebyte gallery international artist residency program, London UK

AWARDS
2018 Mifal-HaPais award for international residency
2003-2004 the Tim Nye fellowship, New York University

SELECTED ART MENTIONS
2018 The Jerusalem Post – an official view of death
2013 Harama Magazine 4 – panopticon
2005 Art or Something Like It CUNY TV
2005 The Eye Wash DVD Collection
2004 Video Out, The New York International Film Festival

EXHIBITIONS CURATING
2021 A stone’s throw away – group exhibition. Azrialy Gallery and The Photographic Communications Gallery (with Taly Kayam)
2019 Point Cloud – group exhibition. The Photographic Communications Gallery (with Galit Shavo)
2018 Niv Rozenberg HOMES. The Photographic Communications Gallery (with Sara Kopelman)
2017 Shabtai Pinchevsky Gas, Stun, Smoke. The Photographic Communications Gallery
2016 Chen Zarfati Dear. The Photographic Communications Gallery, Jerusalem
2015 Yoav Horesh Perslovak 2.0. The Photographic Communications Gallery, Jerusalem
2014 Guy Yitzhaki – Lexicon. The Photographic Communications Gallery, Jerusalem

ACADEMIC TEACHING
2024 Director of the Photographic Communications Department, Hadassah Academic College, Jerusalem
2006 – 2024 Faculty member, Photographic Communications, Hadassah Academic College, Jerusalem
2023 Visiting Lecturer, Anant University, Ahmedabad, INDIA
2014 – 2021 Lecturer, MDes, Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem

EDUCATION
2022 Ph.D. Communications Department, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
2004 M.P.S Tisch School of the Arts, New York University
1997 B.F.A Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem

PUBLICATIONS
Altaratz, D. (2024). The uncanniness of interactive photography: Exploring spatial perception in virtual tours and structure from motion. Philosophy of Photography, 15(47). https://doi.org/10.1386/pop_00091_1

Altaratz, D. Morse, T. (2023) Digital Séance: Fabricated Encounters with the Dead. Social Sciences. 12:11. 635. https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci12110635

Trentin, MG. Altaratz, D. Caine, M. Re’em, A. Tinazzo, A. Gasanova, S. (2023). Historic Graffiti as a Visual Medium for the Sustainable Development of the Underground Built Heritage. Sustainability. ; 15(15):11697. https://doi.org/10.3390/su151511697

Altaratz, D. (2023). The Human Tripod: Computational Photography, Automated Processes, and Professional Identity. photographies, 16:2, 291-311, 2023

Re’em A., Caine M., Altaratz D. and Tchekhanovets Y. (2022) Historical Archaeology of Medieval Pilgrimage: Dating the “Walls of the Crosses” in the Holy Sepulchre Chapel of St. Helena. In New Studies in the Archaeology of Jerusalem and Its Region, Volume 15.

Altaratz, D., Frosh, P. (2021). Sentient Photography: Image-Production and the Smartphone Camera. photographies, 14:2, 243-264, 2021

Caine, M., Altaratz, D., Mann, E., & Havkin, A. (2020). The Spirit of the Cloud: The ‘New Jerusalem’ as a metaphor for social experiences of virtual technologies. Proceedings of EVA London 2020 30, 58-65.

Caine, M., Altaratz, D., Maggen M. (2019). Combining RTI & SFM. A Multi-Faceted approach to Inscription Analysis. Proceedings of the Electronic Visualisation and the Arts, Florence (EVA 2019) Conference (pp. 97-104). Firenze University Press.

Caine, M., Altaratz, D., MacDonald, L.,Reem, A. (2018). The Riddle of the Crosses – The Crusaders in the Holy Sepulchre. Proceedings of the Electronic Visualization and the Arts (EVA 2018) Conference (pp. 132-139). London, UK

visions of heaven and hell - 2017