Deanna Herst

Curator, producer, critic and lecturer. Graduated as an art historian (MA, Utrecht University), she specialized incontemporary art, photography/media theory and semiotics. As a curator and concept developer in the field media art and photography, she has been working for several organizations like Paradox, Impakt Festival, NFI and NAI.She has been lecturing media theory at Sint Joost Academy, Post-St.Joost/Sandberg Institute, Utrecht University (Digital Media and Representation),University of Amsterdam (New Media), Hochschule für Kunst und Gestaltung Zürich.Her current interests include emerging new media art practices in South East Asia, especially Indonesia. Since 2006 she has been teaching at the Willem de Kooning Academy Rotterdam, currently as Course Director Theory & Media. Member of CrossLab.