Lorène Picard research is situated within a critical approach to digital studies from an interdisciplinary perspective, encompassing the analysis of art and design projects, the history of techniques, and the technical, social, and economic context of dematerialisation. She is currently investigating how the concept of a repertoire can engage genuinely interdisciplinary approaches and innovative models for disseminating the arts on the Web. In addition, she contributes to the European project Speculative Urban Future and to the CMA Design cluster at Saclay.
        Her methodologies include qualitative analysis of artistic corpora (art sciences and qualitative research in the social sciences) and Counterfactual Histories methods (critical/speculative design, J. Auger, J. Hanna). Her training in critical design and visual communication led her to participate in collective and research-based design exhibitions. After presenting an experimental prototype for accessing content in augmented reality at La Gaîté Lyrique in Paris, the Design and Research Cycle at the École Supérieure d’Art et de Design de Saint-Étienne enabled her to take part in the International Design Biennale, including curating two exhibitions.
        Her installations are hybrid, addressing the deconstruction of digital phenomena through computing technologies (object-oriented programming, Kinect, projection, mobile screens) and material investigation (multiples, materials relating to space, etc.).
        Her research-creation practice revolves around the deconstruction of everyday life to envision alternative technological imaginaries and new usage scenarios. Computing serves simultaneously as an object of study and a production tool, with programming regarded as a material.