Lozana Rossenova
Lozana Rossenova is a digital humanities researcher and designer based in Berlin. She studied art and design in New York, before moving to the UK to pursue an MA degree at the Department of Typography and Graphic Communication at the University of Reading. She has previously worked in design agencies both in London and New York, primarily working with non-profit, cultural and educational clients.
Between 2016–2021 she was a PhD candidate at the Centre for the Study of the Networked Image at London South Bank University. This position was a collaborative doctoral partnership project with Rhizome, a leading international born-digital art organization based in New York. Her research focused on questions related to presentation and performativity in the online archive of born-digital art, which she examined through the lens of interface design (theory and practice). The project developed design approaches that build understanding across diverse communities of practice and facilitate informed interaction, favouring nuance and complexity over reductive simplification.
She is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the Open Science Lab at TIB (German National Library of Science and Technology, Hannover) working on the NFDI4Culture project for a national research infrastructure of cultural heritage data.
Through her academic research and independent digital consultancy practice, she has developed active working relationships with multiple heritage and research institutions in the US/ Europe, including: Tate, V&A, British Library, UK National Archives, New Museum (NYC), SFMoMA, New York University, and more. In 2020-21, she served as Assistant Director for Linked Data Research for the Joan Jonas Knowledge Base, a research project part of the Artist Archives Initiative, founded at New York University to promote research and disseminate knowledge about the display and care of contemporary art.
She is an active member of the Wikidata and Wikibase open source development communities, and a co-founder of the Wikibase Stakeholder Group. She is also a member of the Steering Committee of OpenRefine, an open source data management tool widely used in heritage, research and digital humanities communities. (2024)
- Links
- Website
- Blog posts on TIB
- Profile on TIB's VIVO platform
- Profile on the Centre for the Study of the Networked Image
- PhD practice portfolio
- ORCID
- Mastodon: https://post.lurk.org/@lozross
- Github
