Mindaugas Gapševičius

Interfaces for Boris and Mindaugas @ The ÁGAPE — Vorspiel 2024

Date: Saturday 03/02/2024 – from 2 PM

Location: @alte_muenze, Molkenmarkt 2, 10179 Berlin
Gallerie, Empore & Cage Club – Haus 3

Interfaces for Boris and Mindaugas @ The Ágape, an immersive collective experience that serves as the culmination and celebration of a six-chapter workshop series called Sensoriality: Art & Neuroscience Through Our Senses.

In 2023, the vision of Sensoriality was to investigate how our senses play a vital role in shaping our understanding of reality as we navigate the world. In each session, experts in the field of art and neuroscience explored six classic perceptive systems: visual, olfactory, gustatory, somatosensory, auditory and proprioception. As the finissage to this immersive workshop series, during The Ágape multiple artists and musicians will exhibit artworks and performances related to neuroscience and the exploration of the senses. In addition, the event features a neuroscientific panel talk and embodied practices for attendees, creating an engaging and thought-provoking experience for all involved.

Three Contributions at Ars Electronica 2023

With a total of 13 works created with the support of Alt Lab, artists and researchers will be presenting themselves at Ars Electronica in Linz from September 6 to 10, 2023. My piece “Interfaces for Boris and Mindaugas” is presented next to a video tutorial “You and I You and Me,” made in collaboration with Maria Safronova Wahlström. Also, next to it, a participatory event “Towards a Toolkit of Care” by the interdisciplinary group of creative practitioners exploring the “critical network of care” (Marinos Koutsomichalis, Mindaugas Gapsevicius, Alessandro Ludovico, Josefin lindebrink, Valeria Graziano, Jenny Pickett, Alexia Achilleos, Eric Lewis).

Doctoral thesis: Aesthetics of Maker Culture

In this work, practice-based research is conducted to rethink the understanding of aesthetics, especially in relation to current media art. Granted, we live in times when technologies merge with living organisms, but we also live in times that provide unlimited resources of knowledge and maker tools. I raise the question: In what way does the hybridization of living organisms and non-living technologies affect art audiences in the culture that may be defined as Maker culture? My hypothesis is that active participation of an audience in an artwork is inevitable for experiencing the artwork itself, while also suggesting that the impact of the umwelt changes the perception of an artwork. I emphasize artistic projects that unfold through mutual interaction among diverse peers, including humans, non-human organisms, and machines.

Interfaces for Boris and Mindaugas @Humans, non-humans, with and without humans

„Humans, non-humans, with and without humans“ is an exhibition about the interconnectedness throughout the structures of nature, the relationships humans build with each other, with non-human life forms and with the environment that surrounds.

Exhibition opening reception FRIDAY, DECEMBER 2, 2022 AT 6 PM UTC+01

Exhibition will take place at the new Ideas Block space – Kompresorinė.
Address: Goštauto 11 / Lukiškių 9, LT-01108 Vilnius, Lithuania (entrance from the backyard.)

Fluid Bodies 5/5. Interfaces (Takūs kūnai 5/5. Sąsajos)

The exhibition is open from 23 September 6 pm.
𝐎𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐧𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐢𝐬 𝐟𝐫𝐞𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐠𝐞!
Regular times: 23 September – 23 October.
Saturday – Sunday 12 pm-8 pm
Tickets: https://www.bilietai.lt/…/kulturos-ir-meno-laivas…/

I am more than happy to present my new work, the Interfaces for Boris and Mindaugas, in the new exhibition space Nemunas7 located on the bank of the Nemunas in Zapyškis.

Three works by Lithuanian artists complete the Fluid Bodies series with authentic interpretations of the theme of ecology. This time, the exhibition will talk about the possibilities of symbiosis between the human and the non-human in the viscous context of microbes, man and dog or geological time. Mindaugas Gapševičius, Kamilė Krasauskaitė and Miglė Vyčinaitė each came up with a keyword for the exhibition’s title.

You and I, You and Me at Ars Electronica 2022

Participatory event You and I You and Me. Photo: Arūnas Baltėnas

This year You and I, You and Me is featured next to the works of students and teaching staff of Bauhaus University Weimar.

7 – 11 September 2022
Hauptplatz 8, University of Art and Design Linz, Groundfloor
https://ars.electronica.art/planetb/de/patterns-that-connect/

You and I, You and Me @ Futureless Festival / Candyland

Opening @ Candyland Wednesday 10 August 2022, 17.00 – 20.00
Gotlandsgatan 76, Stockholm

Continuing with popular imaginaries of the Future (being these utopian or dystopian) Mindaugas Gapševičius and Maria Safronova Wahlström pictures the advent of a transhuman society where the living beings of our planet all are part a greater network of interconnected entities, a mycelium of sorts, communicating, controlling, but also controlled by electricity. This Imaginarium does not stay in the realm of speculative design or science fiction though: in this exhibition, it goes a step further by offering the visitor the possibility of experiencing such interconnectivity through the use of the wearables that are exhibited in the ‘You and I, You and Me’ art show, which has been presented in various venues such as the Baltic Biennale, Piksel Festival in Norway, or Transmediale, in Berlin.

Rectal Candle @ The AGAPÈ — Contact (CTM Festival 2022)

I am pleased to be part of The AGAPÈ exhibition, part of the CTM Festival this year. In Berlin on Saturday, May 28th from 12 to 9 pm. Come by — I am showing my Rectal Candle there! Thanks to Edge Neuroscience & Art e.V for the invitation!

Participatory event You and I, You and Me @ BRAINtouch: embodiment

02.03.2022 – 06.03.2022
Installations — Talks
Projektraum Bethanien, Mariannenplatz 2, 10997 Berlin

BRAINtouch: embodiment presents a scientific-artistic perspective on how we can connect with our brains. Neuroscience-art overcomes the skull through electricity, biology, and sensory experience. Participants take on the role of researchers, experimenting and observing, to become immersed in the science of the brain. With avenues to make the brain ‘touchable’, what do we learn about ourselves?

You and I, You and Me @ Vorspiel Transmediale

You and I, You and Me. Photo: Arūnas Baltėnas

Installation and the participatory event

21st January 2022 @ 17.00-21.00
Silent Green, Gerichtstraße 35, 13347 Berlin

Through live performances, screenings, installations, and many other artistic interventions, this opening event gives a small taste of what to expect for the Vorspiel 2022 program. Taking place at silent green in Wedding for the first time, the opening night will play out over Kuppelhalle, Betonhalle, transmediale studio, one of the Ateliers, and silent green’s beautiful garden.