Curriculum Vitae (Abidged)
Nitzan Ben Shaul (PhD), Professor of Film and Television
Born 31.1.1957
EDUCATION
Tel-Aviv University: Film and Television, BFA (1984); General History, BA (1984)
New York University: Cinema Studies, MA (1986); Cinema Studies, PhD (1993)
Title of Doctorial dissertation: Expressions of the `Siege Syndrome' in Israeli Films, supervised by Professors Annette Michelson and William Simon
ACADEMIC PROFESSIONAL DEGREES
Tel Aviv University: Film & TV: Instructor (1990 – 95); Instructor Dr (1995-97); Guest Lecturer (1997-99); Lecturer (1999-2001); Senior Lecturer (2001-07); Tenured (2004); Associate Professor (2007-2012); Full Professor (2012 -)
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Cognitive study of film; cinematic narratives; digital media and cinema; Israeli cinema; TV news.
ACADEMIC PROFFESIONAL EXPERIENCE (Selective)
Tel Aviv University:
Film & TV Dept.: Acting Head of Dept. (2001-2002); MFA Program Head (2000-2001); Teaching Committee Head (2003); Student Advisor (1996-2000); Established a "media lab" at the Department (2001); Initiation and Supervision of cluster of courses on cognitive film studies (2012 -), Initiator and Head of the Digital Media course of study towards BA/MFA degrees (2016 -)
Faculty of Arts: Faculty Teaching Committee Member (2000-2001); Assistant Dean for Student Services (2004-2006); Doctoral Research Committee (2008-2012); Scholarship Committee (2008- 2013); Chair of Ad Hoc Committee for Senior Lecturer with Tenure Proceedings (2009); Chair of Ad Hoc Committee for Lecturer Proceedings (2009); Chair of Ad Hoc Committee for Senior Lecturer with Tenure Proceedings (2012-13); Institute for Internet Studies: Academic Committee Member (2004 -); Head of Doctoral Research Committee (2014 -)
New York University: Cinema Studies Dept. Visiting Professor (2003)
University of California at Berkeley: Cinema Studies Dept. Visiting Professor (2010)
Venice International University: Globalization Program, Visiting Professor (2012)
Israel National Council for Higher Education (MALAG): Chair: Committee for B.Ed. in film – Vizo College, Haifa (2009-2013); Chair: Committee for MA/MFA in film – Sapir College, Shderot (2010-2012); Chair: Committee for B.Ed./F.A.Film Program – Beit Berl College (2012)
INVITED PRESENTATIONS (selective)
Faculty of Film Studies Colloquium, Yale University, US: "The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict on Film (2001)
Kosmorama seminar on "Cinema in the Middle East" held by the Danish Center for Culture and Development, University of Copenhagen, Denmark: "Siege Mentality in Israeli Films" (2006)
Second Locarno Film Festival Academy, Locarno Film Festival, Locarno, Switzerland: "Introducing the next phase of storytelling in the interactive multimedia world" (2011)
International Technology, Education and Development Conference (INTED2011), Valencia, Spain: Optional Thinking Development through Branching Narrative Interactive Movie Workshops (BNIMW) Among Youth in Situations of Risk and Distress" (2011)
Mostra Internacional de Filmes Interativos, Brasilia, Brazil: "A New Interactive Film Model" (2011)
Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture: "Interactive Cinema" (2012)
Filmatic Festival, University of California, San Diego (UCSD). US "Turbulence" (2014)
EDITORSHIP
Ben Shaul, N., Gertz, N., Zanger, A., Ne’eman, J. (eds.), Special Issue, Israeli Cinema, Shofar, Vol. 24, No. 1, fall 2005
Ben Shaul, N., Dossier Editor: Morphing Realities: The Current Inscription of the Real in Film and Television, Framework: The Journal of Cinema and Media, 49-1, Spring 2008
Ben Shaul, N., Member of the editorial board of Jewish Film & New Media: An International Journal, (2012 -)
ORGANIZATION OF INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES (selective)
6th-11th Tel Aviv Bi-annual International Conference on Cinema Studies, steering and program Committee (2006, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2016)
4th International Conference of Education, Research and Innovation (ICERI2011), Madrid, Spain, International scientific advisory board (2011)
"How Movies Move Us" International Conference, Tel Aviv University, Israel, steering and program committee (2012)
REVIEWER AS ACADEMIC REFEREE (selective): International Communication Association; Israel Communication Association; National Identities Journal; Shofar Journal; Minerva Foundation, Vienna Science and Technology Fund; Rodopi publishers, Israel Studies Review Journal, Berghahn Publishers; Reviewer of Proceedings file for Associate Professor with Tenure, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC); Reviewer of Proceedings file for Associate Professor, Sapir College; Reviewer of Proceedings file for Senior Lecturer, Open University; Reviewer of Proceedings file for Lecturer, Open University; Reviewer of Proceedings file for Lecturer, Kibbutzim College; Reviewer of B.F.A Program in Screen Arts - Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design (2013); Reviewer of over 10 PhD theses (TAU Humanities Faculty: Culture School; TAU Faculty of Arts: Film & TV Dept. and the Interdisciplinary Program)
ACADEMY MEMBERSHIPS (selective)
Association of Jewish Studies (AJS), USA (1990 – 1992); World Union of Jewish Studies, Israel (1993/1997); International Association for Semiotic Studies (1994); Association of Israeli Studies (AIS), Israel/USA (1996 – 1998); Society for Cinema Studies (SCS), USA (2000 – 2002); International Communication Association (ICA), USA (1999 – 2001); International Society for the Study of European Ideas (ISSEI) (2000/2004); Film and History League, USA (2006 – 2008); International Digital Media and Arts Association (IDMAA), USA (2006 – 2008); Popular Culture Association (PCA), USA (2007 – 2008); International Society for the Systems Sciences (ISSS), USA (2007 – 2008); Society for Cognitive Studies of the Moving Image (SCSMI), USA (2007 -); International Society for Education through Art (InSea) (2010 - 12)
PhD/MA/POST-DOC SUPERVISOR
PhD: Gabi Aharoni Yunes (with Prof. Raanan Rein), Tel Aviv University (PhD Granted 2012 ); Orit Fussfeld Cohen, Tel Aviv University (PhD Granted 2013); Michal Pick-Hamou, Tel Aviv University (PhD Granted 2014); Anat Biger, Tel Aviv University (PhD Granted 2016); Irit Numa, Tel Aviv University (PhD granted 2016); Liora Shechtman (with Prof. Dan Orian), Tel Aviv University (2010 -); Ronen Gil, Tel Aviv University (2015 -), Mira Atzil, Tel Aviv University (2016-), Yam Kuman, Tel Aviv University (2016 -)
MA: 11 Candidates, 5 completed
Post-Doc: Omri Ruah-Midbar, Tel Aviv University (2007)
EXAMPLES OF LEADERSHIP IN INDUSTRIAL INNOVATION (selective)
InSplit Systems Ltd., Founder (established in 2008). The company dealt with technological solutions for interactive videos that enable personal or crowd participation in movies, TV shows and web videos in real-time. Technology and site name assigned to IMOVI Ltd. in 2012
Inventions, Inc. Exhibition at Jerusalem’s Bloomfield Science Museum, selected for exhibition as one of Israel's 45 top inventions for the model and technology of the interactive movie Turbulence. (December 2011)
Press coverage indicating leadership in industrial innovation (selective):
http://www.israelinsidethemovie.com/israels-top-20-greatest-inventions-o...
http://www.fastcompany.com/1710021/turbulence-an-israeli-interactive-mov...
http://israel21c.org/201011288556/technology/a-tech-revolution-that-lets...
http://www.aftau.org/site/News2?page=NewsArticle&id=13495
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-20025633-1.html
ACTIVE PARTICIPATION IN SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS (Selective, out of 60)
Fifth Congress of the International Association for Semiotic Studies, University of California, Berkeley, US, paper presentation (1994); Society for Cinema Studies (SCS) conferences: Dallas, Texas, US (1996), Chicago, IL, US (2000), Denver, Colorado, US (2002) paper presentations; Association for Israeli Studies (AIS) Conference, Boston, US, paper presentation (1996); 22nd and 23rd Annual Conference on Film and Literature, Tallahassee, Florida, US, paper presentation (1997, 1998); 49th Annual Conference of the International Communication Association, San Francisco, US, paper presentation (1999); DAC (Digital Arts and Culture Conference), Melbourne, Australia, paper presentation (2003); 9th Conference of the International Society for the Study of European Ideas (ISSEI), Navarra University, Pamplona, Spain, paper presentation (2004); The 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th. 10th, 11th Tel Aviv International Conference on Cinema Studies, Tel Aviv University, Israel, co-organizer and paper presentations (2006, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2016); Digital Media and Art Association (iDMAa) conference, National University, San Diego, California, US, paper presentation (2006); Film and History League conferences: Dallas, Texas, US, (2006), San Francisco, US (2008), Seattle, US (2016) panel chair and paper presentations; Conference of the International Society for the Systems Sciences (ISSS), Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan, paper presentation (2007); InSea Conference, University of Lapland, Rovaniemi, Finland, paper presentation (2010); Society for Cognitive Studies of the Moving Image (SCSMI) conferences: University of Wisconsin, Madison, US (2008), University of Copenhagen, Denmark (2009), University of Virginia Tech, Roanoke, Virginia, US (2010), ELTE University, Budapest, Hungary (2011), Berlin University of the Arts, Berlin, Germany (2013) - paper presentations.
GRANTS/PRIZES (Selective)
NDS and Netvision Institute for Internet Studies: "Internet Video Services Impact on Video Consumers". Principal Investigator, granted 20,000 USD (2008)
TAU Fund for Applied Research: "Model and Platform for Authoring Hyper-Narrative Interactive Movies (HNIM)". Principal Investigator, granted 60,000 USD (2008)
Berkeley Video and Film Festival, "Grand Festival Experimental Award" for the interactive movie Turbulence (September, 2010)
