Vid Seth Peterson (VSP), Ruby Knap (RK), Jernej Robin (JR), Darian Kocmur (DK), Maja Maria Kosec (MMK)
About us
PROJECT
The website and database (or ‘VAZ portal’) are outputs of the project called East Asian Collections in Slovenia: Inclusion of Slovenia in the Global Exchanges of Objects and Ideas with East Asia (No. J7-9429), funded by the Slovenian Research Agency (ARRS). The project was run between 2018 and 2021 at the Department of Asian Studies, Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana, in cooperation with partner research institutions the Slovene Ethnographic Museum and the Science and Research Centre Koper, and with the participation of research organisations including the National Museum of Slovenia, the Celje Regional Museum and the ‘Sergej Mašera’ Maritime Museum, Piran.
The project aims were to identify, analyse and digitize five East Asian collections from four different museums. We intend to include other East Asian collections kept by Slovenian museums and other institutions in the future, thus enabling the VAZ portal to connect all East Asian material from various Slovenian museums and institutions in a user-friendly way for the first time. In addition to the database, the website is complemented by curated contents in the form of blog posts, image galleries, interactive online presentations of individual objects, short video contributions and virtual exhibitions. In the future, the portal will be expanded with additional multimedia presentations, e.g. sound recordings and 3D models.
Website editor: Nataša Vampelj Suhadolnik
Technical website editors: Helena Motoh, Mina Grčar and Dunja Zorman
Proofreader: Abigail Graham
Technical support: Kreativna tovarna
Project no. J7-9429 application details.
TEAM
Prof. Nataša Vampelj Suhadolnik (NVS)
Department of Asian Studies, Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana, Project Leader
Assist. Prof. Helena Motoh (HM)
Scientific and Research Centre Koper, Researcher
Barbara Trnovec (BT)
Celje Regional Museum and Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana, Curator and Assistant Researcher
Mag. Ralf Čeplak Mencin (RČM)
Slovene Ethnographic Museum, Curator
Prof. Chikako Shigemori Bučar (CSB)
Department of Asian Studies, Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana, Researcher
Assist. Prof. Maja Veselič (MV)
Department of Asian Studies, Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana, Researcher
Assoc. Prof. Nataša Visočnik Gerželj (NVG)
Department of Asian Studies, Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana, Researcher
Assist. Dr. Klara Hrvatin (KH)
Department of Asian Studies, Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana, Researcher
Assist. Mina Grčar (MG)
Department of Asian Studies, Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana, PhD Student
Assist. Tina Berdajs (TB)
Department of Asian Studies, Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana, Young Researcher
Assist. Dunja Zorman (DZ)
Department of Asian Studies, Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana, Assistant Researcher and Expert Associate
OTHER RESEARCH PARTNERS
Prof. Hans Bjarne Thomsen
Oddelek za vzhodnoazijsko umetnost, Univerza v Zurichu, profesor in predstojnik oddelka
