Dr Annet Dekker

Dr. Annet Dekker is Visiting Professor and co-director of the Centre for the Study of the Networked Image in the Department of Arts and Creative Industries of London South Bank University. She is also Associate Professor Comparative Cultural Analysis and MA Coordinator Archival and Information Studies at the University of Amsterdam.

She has previously been Researcher Digital Preservation at Tate, London, core tutor at Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam and Fellow at Het Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam. She also worked as web curator for SKOR (Foundation for Art and Public Domain ), was programme manager at Virtueel Platform and curator/head of exhibitions, education and artists in residence at the Netherlands Media Art institute. She has published in numerous collections and journals and is the editor of several volumes, among others, Curating Digital Art. From Presenting and Collecting Digital Art to Networked Co-curation (Valiz 2021), Lost and Living [in] Archives. Collectively Shaping New Memories (Valiz 2017) and Speculative Scenarios, or What Will Happen to Digital Art in the (Near) Future? (Baltan Laboratories/Virtueel Platform 2013). Her recent monograph, Collecting and Conserving Net Art (Routledge 2018) is a seminal work in the field of new media conservation.