Talks + conferences | Teaching | Publications
2024 [upcoming] 1st Base4NFDI User Conference, Berlin, Germany – ‘Facilitating creation, (re)use and interoperability for Knowledge Graphs in NFDI: the vision behind KGI4NFDI’, paper presentation. [conference program]
2024 [upcoming] CHNT 29|2024, Vienna, Austria – ‘Wikibase instances in the Cultural Heritage Domain: Examples from the German humanities NFDI consortia’, presentation with Florian Thiery and Olaf Simons. [conference program]
2024 [upcoming] EOSC Symposium 2024, Berlin, Germany – ‘The NFDI knowledge graph infrastructure service for FAIR data management’, poster presentation. [conference program]
2024 [upcoming] NTTW 9|2024, Karlsruhe, Germany – ‘Regenerative Curation: Exploring its potential for exhibiting and preserving Internet art’, panel with Annet Dekker, Karin de Wild, Inge Hinterwaldner, and Dragan Espenschied. [conference program]
2024 DHd 2024 – ‘Search, Link, Integrate: The User-Centered Approach in Developing NFDI4Culture’s Antelope (Annotation & Terminology) Service’, poster presentation with Ina Blümel and Kolja Bailly. [conference program]
2024 Collegium Helveticum, ETH Zurich – ‘Workshop on Condensed Knowledge Formats’, panel contribution at workshop for exhibition and research project: ‘Coded Secrets: Artistic Interventions Hidden in the Digital Fabric’. [event details]
2024 Critical Media Lab, FHNW Basel – ‘Archiving Networks’, participant in workshop part of the research project Sharing Knowledge in the Arts: THEswissTHING 1994-98. [project details]
2024 Provenance Loves Wiki 2024, Wikimedia Germany, Berlin – ‘Provenance Research + the Wikiverse’, invited participant in barcamp / meeting of the kuwiki Working Group. [workshop program]
2023 FORGE23, Tübingen, Germany – ‘Semantic Annotation of Heterogeneous, Multimedia Cultural Research Data: A FOSS Toolchain for the Digital Humanities’, workshop. [conference program]
2023 CoRDI 2023, Karlsruhe, Germany – ‘The case for a common, reusable Knowledge Graph Infrastructure for NFDI’, presentation with Moritz Schubotz and Renat Shigapov. [conference program] [slides]
2023 DH 2023, Graz, Austria – ‘Towards a common data model for semantic annotation of digital media: A new FOSS toolchain’, poster presentation with Zoe Schubert. [conference program]
2023 Critical Media Lab, FHNW Basel – ‘A Useful Archive’, colloquium with Lucie Kolb and Moritz Greiner-Petter. [event details]
2023 Innover.city, Hochschule Hannover – ‘Fermenting Data’, workshop with Magda Tyżlik-Carver and Lukas Fuchsgruber. [event details]
2023 Goethe Institut, Greece, online – ‘Kultureinrichtungen und Linked Open Data Netzwerke: Erstellen Sie Ihre Eigene Datenbank mit Wikibase’, talk with Christos Varvantakis.[event details]
2023 LD4 Art & Design Affinity Group, online – ‘Modeling artists’ books with the Digital Archive of Artists' Publishing (DAAP)’, presentation at monthly group call. [video documentation] [slides]
2023 DHd 2023 – ‘Forschungsdaten-Management-Services für Linked Open Data: Ein Vergleich’, paper presentation with Robert Nasarek, Lucia Sohmen and Paul Duchesne. [conference program]
2023 Experimental Books – Re-imagining Scholarly Publishing, online – respondent to keynote panel on ‘Data Books and Computational Books’ with Dr Winnie Soon and Dr Paige Raibmon. [conference program]
2023 Photographer's Gallery, London, online – ‘Book launch: The Networked Image in Post-Digital Culture’, book launch and discussion with Katrina Sluis, Andrew Dewdney and Olga Goriunova, as well as Ben Burbridge, Nicolas Malevé, Geoff Cox, Annet Dekker, Gaia Tedone, Magdalena Tyżlik-Carver, and Ioanna Zouli. [event details]
2023 Hybrid Lab, TU Berlin – ‘Fermenting Data Canteen’, workshop with Magda Tyżlik-Carver and Lukas Fuchsgruber. [call for participation]
2022 SWIB2022, online – ‘Working with linked open data in the context of annotation and semantic enrichment of 3D media: A new FOSS toolchain’, workshop with Paul Duchesne. [event details]
2022 Wikidata Workshop at ISWC2022, online – ‘Wikidata and Wikibase as complementary research data management services for cultural heritage data’, paper presentation with Paul Duchesne and Ina Blümel. [event details] [proceedings paper]
2022 NordiCHI2022, Aarhus (&online), Denmark – ‘Curating/Fermenting Data: Data Workflows for Semantic Web Applications’, workshop with Magda Tyżlik-Carver and Lukas Fuchsgruber. [call for participation] [proceedings paper]
2022 Spatial Humanities 2022, Ghent (&online), Belgium – ‘How to semantically annotate 3D models of non-textual cultural heritage?A new FOSS toolchain for the Digital Humanities’, workshop.
2022 JCDL2022, Cologne (&online), Germany – ‘Collaborative annotation and semantic enrichment of 3D media: A FOSS toolchain’, demo session. [demo video] [proceedings paper]
2022 JCDL2022, Cologne (&online), Germany – ‘Open Refine to Wikibase - A New Data Upload Pipeline’, online tutorial with Lucia Sohmen. [event details]
2022 Transformation Digital Art 2022 | Online Symposium, LIMA, NL – ‘Rethinking user agency in the context of digital cultural archives’, talk in the context of the panel on ‘Distributed Knowledge’. [event details]
2022 NFDI InfraTalk (online) – ‘Wikibase and the challenges and possibilities of knowledge graphs for RDM in NFDI4Culture’, talk with Ina Blumel and Paul Duchesne. [video documentation] [slides]
2022 DHd2022, Potsdam (&online), Germany – ‘Beyond the render silo: semantically annotating 3D data within an integrated knowledge graph and 3D-rendering toolchain’, poster presentation with Ina Blümel, Zoe Schubert and Richard Vock. [poster publication]
2022 FOSDEM, Open Research Tools and Technologies devroom (online) – ‘Sustainable community building with the Wikibase Stakeholder Group’, talk with Dragan Espenschied. [event details]
2022 Centre for Book Cultures and Publishing, University of Reading, UK (online) – ‘Experimental publishing and new archival initiatives’, panel curation and moderation. [event details] [video documentation]
2021 WikidataCon, GLAM track (online) – ‘Enriching the Joan Jonas Knowledge Base with linked open data via Wikidata’, talk with Barbara Clausen and Deena Engel. [event details] [slides]
2021 WikidataCon, Wikibase Community Track (online) – programme curation and moderation. [event details]
2021 Hack4OpenGlam, CC Global Summit (online) – ‘The Wikibase use case for Rhizome’s ArtBase’, talk given as part of the ‘Vulnerable Archives’ panel. [slides]
2021 Research and Enterprise Conference, London South Bank University (online) – ‘Model–Database–Interface: towards a new digital design framework through collaborative PhD practice’, talk given as part of ‘The Value of Collaborative PhDs’ session. [slides]
2021 Archival Futures in an Age of Transformative Change, Archivists Round Table of Metropolitan New York (online) – ‘The new Rhizome ArtBase’, talk given as part of the ‘Adapting Technologies/Contextualizing Knowledge: Alternative Approaches to the Archive’ panel. [event details]
2021 Centre for Book Cultures and Publishing, University of Reading, UK (online) – ‘Experimental publishing and networked cultures: from recursive publics to informed users and in/re-formed designers’, talk given as part of the ‘Experimental publishing and alternative networked cultures’ panel. [event details] [video documentation]
2021 Rhizome (online) – ‘Rhizome ArtBase Relaunch’, talk given as part of the From Black Boxes to Open Systems event series. [event details] [video documentation]
2021 Wikibase in Knowledge Graph based Research Data Management (NFDI) Projects, Germany (online) – ‘The Wikibase use case for Rhizome’s ArtBase’, lightning talk. [slides]
2020 Sakıp Sabancı University & Museum, Istanbul, TR – ‘Modeling Net Art Provenance: A New Approach to the Interface and Infrastructure of Rhizome's ArtBase Archive’, talk given as part of the ‘Technological Arts Preservation’ research lecture series.[event details] [slides]
2019 WikidataCon, Poster Presentation, Berlin, DE – ‘Provenance for Internet Art: Using the W3C PROV Data Model’ [poster]
2019 iPRES Conference, Paper Presentation, Amsterdam, NL – ‘Provenance for Internet Art: Using the W3C PROV Data Model’ [event details][slides]
2018 Wikibase Summit, NYC – ‘Linked Open Data & Arts Organisations: Documenting an Evolving Concept of Provenance’, presentation plus facilitation of UX design workshop sessions [event details] [slides]
2018 Digital Living Research Commons, Aarhus, Denmark – ‘Performativity and Provenance in the Net Art Archive: the Interface and Infrastructure of Rhizome’s Artbase’, talk given as part of the QTC (Questions, Thoughts and Contentions) weekly series at DLRC, based in Aarhus University's Department of Digital Design & Information Studies [event details]
2018 Besides the Screen, London – ‘Presentation and Context in the Net Art Archive: the Interface and Infrastructure of Rhizome’s Artbase’ [conference website] [slides]
2018 MAPS (Media Art Preservation Workshop), Budapest – ‘Collaborative Documentation and Archiving of Digital Art’, workshop facilitated together with Dušan Barok and Julie Boschat Thorez [workshop description]
2018 National Forum on Ethics and Archiving the Web, NYC – ‘Curation and Power’, panel discussion [conference website] [video documentation]
2018 Ladies That UX London, monthly meetup – ‘UX in Cultural Heritage’ [event description]
2018 Curating Machines, Vol. 2, London – ‘Version Control and Archive Freedom’, workshop with Annet Dekker [event description]
2018 Transmediale, Berlin – ‘Webrecorder: Webarchiving for All!’, workshop [event description] [slides]
2018 London Art Fair, London – ‘Digital Dilemmas, Pt.2: The tale of the collector’, panel discussion [programme website]
2017 Reading International, Reading, UK – ‘Archiving Digital Social Memory’ [event description]
2017 iPRES Conference, Poster Presentation, Kyoto, Japan – ‘Presentation and contextualisation in the online archive of internet art’ [conference website]
2017 EVA Conference, Research Workshop, London – ‘Presentation and contextualisation in the online archive of internet art’ [conference website]
2017 IIPC / RESAW conference, London – ‘Containerized browsers and archive augmentation with Webrecorder’, with Rhizome [conference website]
2017 Google Cultural Institute, London – ‘Web archiving with Webrecorder.io’, special event with Rhizome
2015 Face Forward Typography Conference, Dublin – ‘The form of the book in alternative publishing practices’, with Inland Editions [slides]
2015 PrintRoom, Rotterdam – ‘Library tales’, with Inland Editions
At Provenance Loves Wiki in Berlin, 2024.
At Wikibase Summit, NYC, 2018.
At Ethics & Archiving the Web in NYC, 2018.
Teaching + visiting lectures | Talks | Publications
2024 Hochschule Hannover, Faculty for Media, Information and Design, DE – ‘Digital research infrastructure’, spring/summer term module.
2024 University of Reading, UK – ‘Hybrid approaches to publishing and (re)thinking web2print / print2web interactions’, visiting lecture.
2023 Hochschule Hannover, Faculty for Media, Information and Design, DE – ‘Digital research infrastructure’, spring/summer term module.
2023 University of Reading, UK – ‘Publishing Platforms and hybrid publishing practices’, visiting lecture.
2023 Vestibule, UAL Central Saint Martins, UK – ‘Digital Archive of Artists' Publishing’, visiting talk with Ami Clarke and Arnaud Desjardin. [event details]
2022 University of Aarhus, Denmark – ‘Understanding LOD 4Culture: data modeling, transformation and federation with open source tools’, 3-part workshop for students on the Curating Data course in the department of Digital Design and Information Studies.
2022 Aalto University, Finland – External examination for the Master’s thesis: ‘The Scattered Steps: A Living Catalogue of Web-Based Art Exhibitions’ by Ya-Yu Tseng, MA candidate at the Department of Art / School of Arts, Design and Architecture.
2022 University of Reading, UK – ‘Publishing Platforms and hybrid publishing practices’, visiting lecture.
2021 University of Aarhus, Denmark – ‘Understanding LOD 4Culture: data modeling, transformation and federation with open source tools’, 3-part workshop for students on the Curating Data course in the department of Digital Design and Information Studies.
2021 Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam, NL (online) – ‘Model–Database–Interface:
from ‘recursive publics’ to informed users and in/re-formed designers’, visiting lecture.
2021 University of Reading, UK – Publishing Platforms, spring term module. [slides]
2020 NYU, Berlin – ‘How can online collection interface design and infrastructure address the medium-specific challenges of born-digital cultural heritage?’, guest lecture for Interactive Media Arts course ‘Augmenting the Gallery’.
2020 University of Reading, UK – Publishing Platforms, spring term module.
2019 Kingston School of Art, UK – The Form of the Book in Hybrid Publishing Practices, talk [slides] & workshop [slides] in The Design School.
2019 University of Reading, UK – Publishing Platforms, spring term module.
2018 University of Aarhus, Denmark – ‘Archiving the Web: Interface Design and User Interaction in the Online Archive of Digital Art’, workshop co-facilitated with Magda Tyzlik-Carver, Assistant Professor in the department of Digital Design and Information Studies.
2018 University of Siegen, Germany – ‘“Windows & Mirrors”: Theory and Practice in the Interface Design of Online Archives’, part of Locating Media Lecture Series. [event description]
2018 University of Reading, UK – Publishing Platforms, spring term module.
2017 University of Reading, UK – Publishing Platforms, spring term module on the MA Book Design course, Department of Typgraphy & Graphic Communication.
2016 University of the West of England, UK – One-day workshop on independent publishing practices, with Inland Editions. [slides]
2016 University of Reading, UK – ‘Design and production practices for media-rich digital publications’, visiting lecture.
2016 University of Reading, UK – ‘Design and production practices for media-rich digital publications’, visiting lecture.
2015 University of Reading, UK – ‘Creating digital publications with integrated visual and textual content and designing for in-browser reading experiences’, visiting lecture.
2014 American University in Bulgaria – ‘The Illustration Revolution: Radical shifts in the state of the book and publishing trade introduced during the 19th century’, visiting lecture.
2014 American University in Bulgaria – ‘Design in the social context: Information graphics and visual communications for NGOs’, visiting lecture.
2014 American University in Bulgaria – ‘Creating interactive digital publications with Adobe InDesign Digital Publishing Suite’, workshop.
2014 University of Reading, UK – ‘Creating digital publications with integrated visual and textual content’, visiting lecture.
2024 ‘Passion for Provenance (data): On collection data, museum systems and open collaboration via wikis’, post for PLW2024 workshop at the TIB blog. [read here]
2023 ‘Open access for cultural heritage data’, post for Open Access Week at the TIB blog. [read here]
2023 ‘Sites of art and networks of data: Archiving artists’ websites as linked open data’, essay for the Art Doc Archive project blog. [read here]
2023 ‘Beyond the screenshot: interface design and data protocols in the net art archive’, in: The Networked Image in Post-Digital Culture, edited by Andrew Dewdney and Katrina Sluis, Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, Abingdon, Oxon.
2022 ‘Iterative Pasts and Linked Futures: A Feminist Approach to Modeling Data in Archives and Collections of Artists’ Publishing’, in: Perspectives on Data, edited by Emily Lew Fry and Erin Canning, Art Institute of Chicago Routledge. doi:10.53269/978086559315. [read here]
2021 ‘Designing interfaces to support contextual interpretation and open conversations with users’, interview conducted by Marialaura Ghidini for curating.online. [read here]
2021 ‘OpenRefine to Wikibase: Data Upload Pipeline’, a living guidelines document written with Lucia Sohmen published via Wikiversity. [read here]
2021 ‘TIB at WikidataCon: Reflecting on questions of sustainability, growing the ecosystem of decentralized data repositories and ensuring knowledge equity’, blog post in two parts for TIB Blog. [read part 1] [read part 2]
2021 ‘Model–Database–Interface: A study of the redesign of the ArtBase, and the role of user agency in born-digital archives’, PhD Dissertation, London South Bank University.
2021 ‘The Digital Archive of Artists’ Publishing (DAAP): An email conversation with Ami Clarke and Lozana Rossenova’, interview conducted by Gustavo Grandal Montero, Art Libraries Journal, 46(1), p.13–22. doi:10.1017/alj.2020.32
2020 ‘Caring networks: reframing preservation within networked art practices’, a blog post from the Networked Art Practice After Digital Preservation ISEA 2020 workshop for networkedart.blog. [read here]
2020 ‘ArtBase Redesign—Prototype Development: Design Exploration and Evaluation 2018–2019’. ArtBase Redesign Documentation. [read here]
2020 ‘Design Landscape—Online Collection Interfaces: Discovery Phase and User Research 2018’. ArtBase Redesign Documentation. [read here]
2020 ‘ArtBase Users—Research Results and Insights: Discovery Phase and User Research 2017–2018’. ArtBase Redesign Documentation. [read here]
2020 ‘ArtBase Archive—Context and History: Discovery Phase and User Research 2017–2019’. ArtBase Redesign Documentation. [read here]
2019 ‘Provenance for Internet Art: Using the W3C PROV data model’, with Karin de Wild and Dragan Espenschied, in Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Digital Preservation iPRES 2019, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, pp.297-305. [read here]
2018 ‘Many Faces of Wikibase: Rhizome’s Archive of Born-digital Art and Digital Preservation’, interview with Dragan Espenschied, Lyndsey Moulds and Lozana Rossenova, conducted by Sandra Fauconnier for the Wikimedia Foundation's Blog. [read here]
2018 ‘Review of Fiona Banner’s “Heart of Darkness”’, book review for caa.reviews [read here]
2017 ‘Digital Social Memory and the Case of the Online Archive of Internet Art’, article for online magazine “New Criticals”. [read here]
2017 ‘Digital Social Memory’, interactive narrative for Rhizome's website. [read here]
2017 ‘User Experience in the Online Archive of Internet Art’, IIPC blog. [read here]
2015 ‘Bookspace: Collected Essays on Libraries’, Inland Editions, London. [publisher website]
2012 ‘Typography with a view’, independently published journal with Maria Inês Cruz at the Department of Typography and Graphic Communication, University of Reading. [project blog]
Full list of publications is available on ORCID.