Biography
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. 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 is also the principal investigator of the swissuniversities funded project Critical FAIRness, an exploratory study investigating questions of "accessibility" and "re-use" regarding research data in the arts. She is the author of Study, Not Critique (2018), the editor of Artwork as Institution (2019), and the co-editor of Paratexte (2018) and Art Handling (2016). She is also the co-curator of the exhibitions "Reading the Library" (Sitterwerk, 2021) and "Wir publizieren" (Kunsthalle Bern, 2020). She is a founding member and co-editor of the open-access journal Brand-New-Life. Dr. Lucie Kolb is a Docent for Critical Publishing and Research and Co-Head of Make/Sense PhD program at the Institute of Experimental Design and Media Cultures, Basel Academy of Art and Design FHNW.