Ida Hiršenfelder is a Ljubljana, Slovenia based media art critic, curator for media art, and theorist who studied Sinology, and for a time, lived and studied in Beijing. Since 2014 she is a collaborator of MG+MSUM Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova for Network Museum online aggregator of contemporary art archives and Glossary of Common Knowledge project of L’Internationale European Project. She writes on art and often conduct round-tables and public discussions. She works in the field of art curating since 2002 and in the field of art critique since 2006. From 2007 to 2013 she was a digital archivist for DIVA Station, Digital Video Art Archive at SCCA, Centre for Contemporary Arts-Ljubljana, a member of GAMA, Gateway to Archives of Media Art European network. Archives and their disappearance – the digital life and the digital afterlife – are one of her interests, which resulted in a number of lectures dealing with media archeology and the history of Internet.
