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Mindaugas Gapševičius (b. 1974) is an artist based in Berlin, and Vilnius. Gapševičius earned his MA at the Vilnius Academy of Arts in 1999 and his MPhil at the Goldsmiths University London in 2016. Since 2016, he has been continuing his research at the PhD level at Bauhaus University, Weimar, where he holds an artistic associate chair.
Mindaugas Gapševičius (b. 1974) is an artist, based in Berlin and Vilnius. He obtained his MA at Vilnius Academy of Arts in 1999, and his MPhil at Goldsmiths, University of London in 2016. Since 2016, he has been conducting PhD research at Bauhaus University, Weimar, where he holds an artistic associate chair. In 2016, he initiated the set up of TOP lab, the first community-based biolaboratory in Berlin, together with colleagues from the TOP Association. In 2019 he initiated the launch of alt lab, the non-disciplinary laboratory in Vilnius.


Mindaugas Gapševičius was an active participant in the international new media art networks, which stimulated the formation of networks between Western countries and Baltic States in the last decade of the 20th century. He is among the initiators of the first Lithuanian new media art platform on the net, [http://www.o-o.lt Institutio Media], founded in 1998, the pan-European network for emerging artists, the [http://www.migaa.eu Migrating Art Academies], founded in 2008, and the [http://www.howto-things.com/Press_Release DIYbio network of Nordic countries], founded in 2017. His artworks question the creativity of machines and do not presume humans to be the only creative force at work.
Gapševičius’ work has been shown at the KUMU museum Tallinn (2011), Pixxelpoint festival in Nova Gorica (2014), Pixelache festival in Helsinki (2015, 2016), RIXC art and science festival in Riga (2016), Piksel festival in Bergen (2018), MO museum in Vilnius (2019), and Ars Electronica in Linz (2019). His works question the creativity of machines, and do not presume humans are the only creative force.