Mariana Ziku
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Mariana Ziku
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Mariana
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Ziku
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Description
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Mariana Ziku is the co-founder of the Biennale of Western Balkans. She is a PhD candidate and research associate in the Intelligent Interaction Research Group, Dept. of Cultural Technology and Communication, University of the Aegean, Greece. She is also a staff member of the Master’s Programme Folk/Popular Culture and Modern Cultural Heritage at the Hellenic Open University. Her research is in Digital Cultural Heritage/Cultural Informatics, particularly in the field of Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH) and Traditional Cultural Expressions (TCE), with an emphasis on the Balkan area. She has been trained in the digital curation of intangible, audiovisual and documentary heritage in Egypt, Belgium, and Germany as a grant recipient of the Leonardo da Vinci European Commission programme. She has been working as a project manager, researcher, and professional in over 10 European cross-border cooperation and national programmes in research, arts/culture, and education. She holds a BA in Art Sciences, an MA in Theory/History of Art and Curation (University of Ioannina, Greece), a Specialised Certificate in Cultural Management (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens), and an MSc in Digital Humanities (KU Leuven, Belgium). She is a member of ICOM's International Committee for Documentation.
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Abstract
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Mariana Ziku, researcher - project manager in the ECHO III For Memory's Sake, part of the Biennale of Western Balkans.
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has contact point
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ziku@mail.com