Noga Stiassny
Biographic Data
| ID | 4046954 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Noga Stiassny |
| GIVEN NAMES | Noga |
| FAMILY NAME | Stiassny |
| SIGNATURE | STIASSNY N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Department of Communication & Journalism/The European Forum, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2073-770X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Pov
Nazi gas chambers are deeply embedded in our collective memory of the Holocaust. However, the challenge of representing these actual and symbolic sites of genocide has posed significant ethical dilemmas for artists working in the postwar years, given the absence of direct witnesses to the crime of gassing humans. Nonetheless, numerous artists have "entered" the gas chambers over the years, thus contesting discursive and visual conventions regardi…
Digital visual history
Digital technologies are revolutionizing the way we study and understand history. Historical sources and material evidence are increasingly being transformed into digital objects and integrated into larger databases, offering new ways of researching history in the digital age. This article reviews dominant practices that deal with new forms of historiography. It does so by offering digital curatorial practices and outlines a new methodological co…
Curating is Believing
This article explores the potential of digital exhibitions to enhance Holocaust memory for generations that soon will not have direct contact with survivors, positioning such exhibitions as an innovative educational tool. Focusing on the Nazi gas chambers—a negative symbol of Holocaust memory—as its case study. The article utilizes the "Visual History of the Holocaust: Rethinking Curation in the Digital Age" research project's Media Management an…
Travelling landscapes’ and the potential of Artscapes
What does it mean to represent trauma, heritage and/or terror-related landscapes in the present day? This article aims to offer a new perspective on the ability of such representations to initiate a journey by means of artistic creation; the author refers to such artworks as ‘ Artscapes’, claiming that Artscapes make feasible a seemingly contradictory act: on one hand, ‘time travel’ that assists in commemorating the past(s), and on the other, ‘sp…
Beyond the Local Discourse
Hitlerwelle, Führerboom, Hitlernostalgie in the German language; in Hebrew there is the famous La'Hit-Ler ( Hitler-Schlager ) coined by Israeli poet David Avidan, or what Professor Moshe Zuckermann has just recently called Hitleriada (a combination between Hitler and Olympiad ): all phrases share the wish to describe the great interest that people often (re-)find in the figure of the Nazi Führer. And this interest usually emerges in waves. During…
The Art of Memory
At the end of November 2016, a unique and intruding art project took place in the city of Hamburg, Germany, a result of collaboration between German artists and a Chinese artist, who all seek to commemorate the Chinese victims who lived in the city pre- World War II but had to suffer the injustices of the Nazi regime. The project lasted three days and was presented in various locations throughout the city, while including many artistic mediums al…
Digital visual history
Digital technologies are revolutionizing the way we study and understand history. Historical sources and material evidence are increasingly being transformed into digital objects and integrated into larger databases, offering new ways of researching history in the digital age. This article reviews dominant practices that deal with new forms of historiography. It does so by offering digital curatorial practices and outlines a new methodological co…
Beyond the Local Discourse
Hitlerwelle, Führerboom, Hitlernostalgie in the German language; in Hebrew there is the famous La'Hit-Ler ( Hitler-Schlager ) coined by Israeli poet David Avidan, or what Professor Moshe Zuckermann has just recently called Hitleriada (a combination between Hitler and Olympiad ): all phrases share the wish to describe the great interest that people often (re-)find in the figure of the Nazi Führer. And this interest usually emerges in waves. During…
The Art of Memory
At the end of November 2016, a unique and intruding art project took place in the city of Hamburg, Germany, a result of collaboration between German artists and a Chinese artist, who all seek to commemorate the Chinese victims who lived in the city pre- World War II but had to suffer the injustices of the Nazi regime. The project lasted three days and was presented in various locations throughout the city, while including many artistic mediums al…
The Art of Memory
At the end of November 2016, a unique and intruding art project took place in the city of Hamburg, Germany, a result of collaboration between German artists and a Chinese artist, who all seek to commemorate the Chinese victims who lived in the city pre- World War II but had to suffer the injustices of the Nazi regime. The project lasted three days and was presented in various locations throughout the city, while including many artistic mediums al…
Beyond the Local Discourse
Hitlerwelle, Führerboom, Hitlernostalgie in the German language; in Hebrew there is the famous La'Hit-Ler ( Hitler-Schlager ) coined by Israeli poet David Avidan, or what Professor Moshe Zuckermann has just recently called Hitleriada (a combination between Hitler and Olympiad ): all phrases share the wish to describe the great interest that people often (re-)find in the figure of the Nazi Führer. And this interest usually emerges in waves. During…
Travelling landscapes’ and the potential of Artscapes
What does it mean to represent trauma, heritage and/or terror-related landscapes in the present day? This article aims to offer a new perspective on the ability of such representations to initiate a journey by means of artistic creation; the author refers to such artworks as ‘ Artscapes’, claiming that Artscapes make feasible a seemingly contradictory act: on one hand, ‘time travel’ that assists in commemorating the past(s), and on the other, ‘sp…
Curating is Believing
This article explores the potential of digital exhibitions to enhance Holocaust memory for generations that soon will not have direct contact with survivors, positioning such exhibitions as an innovative educational tool. Focusing on the Nazi gas chambers—a negative symbol of Holocaust memory—as its case study. The article utilizes the "Visual History of the Holocaust: Rethinking Curation in the Digital Age" research project's Media Management an…
Digital visual history
Digital technologies are revolutionizing the way we study and understand history. Historical sources and material evidence are increasingly being transformed into digital objects and integrated into larger databases, offering new ways of researching history in the digital age. This article reviews dominant practices that deal with new forms of historiography. It does so by offering digital curatorial practices and outlines a new methodological co…
Pov
Nazi gas chambers are deeply embedded in our collective memory of the Holocaust. However, the challenge of representing these actual and symbolic sites of genocide has posed significant ethical dilemmas for artists working in the postwar years, given the absence of direct witnesses to the crime of gassing humans. Nonetheless, numerous artists have "entered" the gas chambers over the years, thus contesting discursive and visual conventions regardi…
Art (5 works) · Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration (5 works) · History (4 works) · History (4 works) · The Holocaust (4 works) · Law (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Literature (3 works) · Nazism (3 works) · Political science (3 works)