We are interdisciplinary group of researchers who focus on data practices to inquire into how data become part of the working processes and research methods, and how they are material in curation of digital objects and archives, creation of artistic work, experimental design, software development, in legal practices and beyond.
Please get in touch if you would like to visit our research centre or if you are interested in collaborating with any of our members.
Dr. Kate McDowell focuses on storytelling as information research, social justice storytelling, and how the history of library storytelling can enhance contemporary data storytelling. Her writing appears in Library Quarterly, College and Research Libraries, and JASIST, where her article Storytelling wisdom: Story, information, and DIKW theorizes storytelling as a fundamental information form. She leads the nationally-funded Data Storytelling Toolkit for Librarians project to equip libraries with narrative tools for data-informed advocacy. McDowell is an associate professor at the School of Information Sciences at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (USA), where her storytelling teaching was internationally celebrated with the ASIS&T Outstanding Information Science Teacher Award in 2022.
Dr. McDowell is a Visiting Researcher at the Centre in October - December 2023.
Dr. Lozana Rossenova is a digital designer and researcher, focusing on open-source and community-driven approaches to digital archives. In 2021, she completed a PhD at the Centre for the Study of the Networked Image (London South Bank University) in collaboration with Rhizome, a leading international born-digital art organisation. Rossenova is currently based at the Open Science Lab at TIB, Hanover, working on the NFDI4Culture project towards a national research infrastructure of cultural heritage data. She is an active member of the Wikidata and Wikibase open source development communities, and a co-founder of the Wikibase Stakeholder Group. Dr. Rossenova is a member of the Steering Committee of OpenRefine, an open source data management tool with wide adoption in heritage, research and digital humanities communities. Dr. Rossenova is collaborator on the project Fermenting Data since 2022.
Dr. Lukas Fuchsgruber is an art historian based in Berlin, who in 2018 completed his PhD thesis about the creation of the Hôtel Drouot auction house in Paris in 1852, under the supervision of Bénédicte Savoy (the book was published in 2020 as “Das Spektakel der Auktion”). From 2011 to 2014 he worked as an author and researcher for “Art TransForm”, a German-French research project (DFG/ANR) on transnational artist formation in the nineteenth century. Since 2014 he was affiliated with the “Forum Kunst und Markt” (Centre for Art Market Studies) in Berlin, taking part in the organization of the annual workshops, coordinating the young researchers initiative and contributing to the Journal for Art Market Studies as a writer and guest editor. In 2017 he was a research fellow at the Germanisches Nationalmuseum in Nuremberg. Since 2020 he is researcher in the project “Museums and Society, Mapping the Social”, with a case study on social aspects of digitization in museums. Dr. Fuchsgruber has been involved in project Fermenting Data since 2022.
