Editorial Team

Doron Altaratz, Director of the Photographic Communications Department at the Jerusalem Multidisciplinary College, Israel
Dr. Doron Altaratz is a communications researcher and media theorist whose work explores the intersections of visual culture, computational imaging, and mediated experience. With a background in the creative industries, his research focuses on interactive and computational photography, media critique, and digital documentation practices. Doron has published on the uncanniness of interactive photography, digital afterlife, and the cultural implications of algorithmic imaging. His recent work emphasizes historical graffiti as a visual medium, exploring its role in cultural memory and heritage preservation through photogrammetry and mixed documentation methods. These studies have appeared in peer-reviewed journals such as Sustainability and have informed international collaborations. In addition to his academic writing, Doron leads workshops on advanced imaging technologies for cultural heritage, and his creative practice spans computational photography, immersive installations, and mixed reality. Doron is a senior researcher at the Jerusalem Institute for Research and Digital Documentation of Cultural Heritage and the director of the Photographic Communications department of JMC.

Mia Gaia Trentin, Post Doc Researcher at the Cyprus University of Technology - Digital Heritage Research Lab, Cyprus
Her research focuses on Medieval and Modern graffiti along the Eastern Mediterranean sea routes (GRAFMEDIA, Graffiti Mediterranean Dialogue, OPPORTUNITY/0916/MSCA/0010), performing a holistic approach to the graphic culture and the Medieval and Modern mobility in the Eastern Mediterranean, providing new and original data concerning cultural exchanges, informal writing practices, people’s interaction with their anthropic and natural landscape. At the same time, she is working on the methodological aspects of graffiti studies, developing specific digital tools for the documentation and visualization of graffiti and their material and immaterial aspects while establishing a methodology of analysis based on ontological description and standards (DIGIGRAF – Digitizing Graffiti, EXCELLENCE/0421/0540). She is also engaged in EU project consortia aiming to promote Cypriot Cultural Heritage and graffiti within the academic community and in the field of education and valorization through community involvement and citizen science.

Ondřej Škrabal, Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures (CSMC) University of Hamburg, Germany
Postdoctoral researcher and spokesperson of the research group ‘Situating Graffiti’ at the Cluster of Excellence ‘Understanding Written Artefacts’ at the CSMC. A historian of ancient China, his current research focuses on the sociocultural, political, and technological underpinnings of epigraphic and manuscript practices, the provenance and craftsmanship of premodern bronze art, and the social history of graffiti in East Asia.

Philippa M. Steele, Senior Research Associate, Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge, Senior Research Fellow, Magdalene College, Cambridge, UK
Principal Research Associate (equivalent of full professor) in the Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge, and Principal Investigator of the project Visual Interactions in Early Writing Systems (VIEWS), a successful ERC Consolidator Grant proposal subsequently funded by the UKRI as a UKRI Frontier Research Grant, no. EP/X028240/1. Formerly Principal Investigator of the project Contexts of and Relations between Early Writing Systems (CREWS), funded by the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (CREWS, grant no. 677758). Founder of the Endangered Writing Network, and developing several initiatives in human rights related to language, writing and culture. Research interests in the development of ancient writing systems, their visual features and the contexts of their use especially in the Bronze and Iron Age Aegean and Cyprus; broadening the field of writing systems studies; the study and protection of minoritised, indigenous and endangered languages and writing systems.

Publisher and Editor
Pedro Soares Neves, collaborator of :
University of Lisbon Faculty of Fine Arts / Artistic Studies Research Centre (CIEBA/FBAUL);
Interdisciplinary Center for History, Cultures and Societies at the University of Évora (CIDEHUS/UEvora);
Associate Laboratory of Robotics and Engineering Systems / Interactive Technologies Institute (ITI/LARSyS/IST).