Lucia Sommerer

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Lucia Sommerer is a Berlin-based artistic researcher at the intersection of law, technology, and art. She holds an assistant professorship in criminal law and criminology at the University of Halle (Germany), is a fellow at Yale Law School’s Information Society Project (USA), and a member of Kollektiv im Fenster (kiF).

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Feb 4, 2026 ∙ 20 min

Law x Art: A Two-way Street of Mutual Productive Irritation

Both art and science have been cornerstones of western society for millennia, yet their synthesis—artistic research—has yet to achieve widespread acceptance in European […] academies. Samuel Penderbayne[1] Artistic Research Artistic research has many faces. [2] For some it is research ‘about’ art (art as research object : art history [3] as well as artists’ self-exploration into their own body of work). [4] For others it is research ‘for’ art (art as research objective : artists...