Romy Achituv

{{Short description|Israeli experimental multimedia artist|bot=PearBOT 5}}

Romy Achituv (Hebrew: רומי אחיטוב; born 1958) is an Israeli experimental multimedia artist whose work engages issues of representation, language, time, and memory.{{cite web|title=Elmcip|url=https://elmcip.net/person/romy-achituv|accessdate=23 March 2017}} Achituv is known for "Text Rain"{{cite web|title=Text Rain|url=http://americanart.si.edu/collections/search/artwork/?id=109552|website=Smithsonian American Art Museum|publisher=Smithsonian American Art Museum|accessdate=25 July 2015}} which he co-created with Camille Utterback and "The Garden Library Database Visualization Project"{{cite web|title=Romy Achituv and Arteam Interdisciplinary Art|url=http://www.harpofoundation.org/romy-achituv/|website=Harpo Foundation|publisher=Harpo Foundation|accessdate=25 July 2015}} which he created with Arteam, an interdisciplinary art collective.{{Cite web|title = The Emotional Life of Books {{!}} Fathom|url = http://fathom.info/latest/3260|website = fathom.info|accessdate = 2015-07-25}}

Achituv was born in Rome, Italy. He lives and works in Israel, New York City, and Seoul, South Korea.{{cite web|title=Romy Achituv|url=http://elmcip.net/person/romy-achituv|website=Elmcip|publisher=Elmcip|accessdate=25 July 2015}} His work is in the collection of the Smithsonian American Art Museum (Washington, D.C.).{{Cite web|title = Text Rain by Romy Achituv / American Art|url = http://americanart.si.edu/collections/search/artwork/?id=109552|website = americanart.si.edu|accessdate = 2015-07-25}}