Yael EylatVan-Essen is the head of the Digital Media in Camera Obscura School of Art, in Tel-Aviv, Israel, since its foundation in 1992.
She is a graduate of the Fine Art Department in Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem and has a Master degree from Tel-Aviv University in New-Media Theory.
She has been working in various media as installations, performances, video-art and documentary and lately she is working on the theoretical aspects of New Media.
She edited the first anthology which was published in the Hebrew language on this subject, and she is currently working on a new book on "Electronic Art".
She has participated in various conferences around the world on the subject of New-Media and Electronic Art.