Mindaugas Gapševičius

Book: Shared Habitats

Ursula Damm / Mindaugas Gapsevicius (eds.)
Shared Habitats
A Cultural Inquiry into Living Spaces and Their Inhabitants

Recently, three exhibitions under the title Shared Habitats were carried out by a team from the Chair of Media Environments at Bauhaus University, Weimar. Today, I am happy to share the publication, comprising the work of the last years at the Chair. Edited by Ursula Damm & Mindaugas Gapsevicius the Shared Habitats book is a cultural inquiry into living spaces and their inhabitants.

Institutio Media and Migrating Art Academies at the Lithuanian National Gallery

Video still from the teaser of the exhibition Timestamps at the Lithuanian National Gallery

I am pleased to represent Institutio Media and Migrating Art Academies at Laikmenos/Timestamps, the Lithuanian media art retrospective at the Lithuanian National Gallery. In the video, I reflect on the period in which the Institutio Media and Migrating Art Academies have started. The exhibition features works adapted to the new context.

Timestamps, 2021 04 02 – 05 30

Interview: Humanity at the age of virtual transition

Recently Aliaksandra Tucha from arterritory.com invited me to share my thoughts on AI. Our conversation ended up with a need to have a tool to help people to understand each other. Back to society so to say.

Exhibition: Microorganisms and Their Hosts

Opening: 6 October 2020, 18:00
Exhibition dates & times: 7-15 October 2020, daily 15:00–19:00
“Atletika” gallery, 21 Vitebsko Str. Vilnius

My solo exhibition created in cooperation with microorganisms and professionals from various fields, such as scientist Auksė Gaižauskaitė (microbiology), artists Antanas Gerlikas (glass) and Laura Kaminskaitė (exhibition design and glass), curator Valentinas Klimašauskas and others.

Workshop: How to personalize yogurt?

On 3 & 4 October creative workshops will be organized in the Alt lab laboratory, participants of which will be invited to produce and to experience their own personalized yogurt. The produced yogurts will become part of the exhibition “Microorganisms and their hosts” at “Atletika” gallery.

Experiencing Lives. Live on Ars Electronica

Still video, "Microorganisms and Their Hosts"

4 pm Berlin time, Alt lab (2nd floor left), Sodas 2123, Vitebsko 21, 08402 Vilnius, Lithuania
4.20 pm Berlin time, Als Electronica broadcast

With Mindaugas Gapševičius, Brigita Kasperaitė, Rūta Spelskytė, Auksė Gaižauskaitė
Moderation: Valentinas Klimašauskas

We are happy to invite you to the Alt lab initiative, the artist talk to be presented at the Ars Electronica festival. While the talk is being broadcast live, the reception is in the premises of Alt lab. For live broadcast see Ars Electronica website. All welcome to join us for a reception!

Interspecies collaborations (with Mindaugas Gapševičius)

Ferment Radio features a conversation with Mindaugas Gapševičius on collaborations between people, microorganisms, and tools.

Ultra-Low-Voltage Survival Kit #2

The reduced version of the Ultra-Low-Voltage Survival Kit is on view at the Eigenheim Gallery in Berlin from 22.05.2020 to 11.07.2020. It refers to the nature of the electrical signal as the base for digital computation and invites the user to experience electricity with their bodies. The toolkit includes tools for building up an interface to light up an LED by energy generated by the human body.

Biochemistry of Emotions

Merry CRISPR workshop Bioart Society 2017 Photo by Erich Berger

In collaboration with Hege Tapio and Auksė Gaižauskaitė

A three days long workshop will be led by artists Hege Tapio and Mindaugas Gapševičius, and scientist Auksė Gaižauskaitė. Besides trying to understand empathy we will take a look into biochemical and physiological processes in the human body. We will also work on our ideas, to be presented by the end of the workshop.

Organized in a non-disciplinary laboratory Alt lab on the 15–18 of February 2020, located in a new cultural center “Sodas 2123” (Vitebsko 21 & 23, Vilnius). The workshop invites everyone interested in the biological basis of empathy, art, and interdisciplinary projects.

Preview of Proposal for Microbial Therapy

My latest work Proposal for Microbial Therapy (work in progress) is on display during the launch of the alt lab, an alternative non-disciplinary research laboratory in Vilnius.

Event date & time: 28 December 2019, 6 PM
Location: alt lab, SODAS2123 cultural centre “Sodas 2123” (Vitebsko 23, Vilnius, room 304)