Dr. Lucie Kolb is a scholar of critical publishing with a background in visual arts, art history, and cultural studies. Her work involves studying and producing artistic knowledge, e.g., practice-oriented writing and transversal publishing. She is interested in identifying, studying, and developing infrastructural practices with a particular focus on knowledge infrastructures such as libraries, collections and archives. Lucie works with practice-based methods, archival work, and field studies. Her research addresses hidden mechanisms and structures that create social injustice in knowledge organizations and considers how collective work on infrastructures of knowledge is foundational for common intellectual practice and proposes ways to conceptualize infrastructural imaginaries otherwise.
Since 2023, Lucie has been the principal investigator of the SNSF-funded project Sharing Knowledge in the Arts, analyzing computational infrastructural practices and articulating open sharing practices. She also was the principal investigator of the swissuniversities funded project Critical FAIRness (2023–24), an exploratory study investigating questions of “accessibility” and “re-use” regarding research data in the arts and held an FHNW Fellowship for Critical Publishing and Research-based Learning in Art and Design (2022-24). Lucie is a founding member and co-editor of the open-access journal Brand-New-Life.
At IXDM, HGK Lucie is a Professor and teaches on the MA Transversal Design. She is the Head of the MAKE/SENSE PhD programme promoting practice-based research in art and design.
