Prof. Dr. Vytautas Michelkevičius

vytautas.michelkevicius[at]vda.lt

Curator, art and media critic and researcher, writer and lecturer.

Research and writing portfolio https://vilnius.academia.edu/VytautasMichelkevicius

Current and recent positions

Professor (since 2022), Associate Professor (2013–2022), lecturer (2005–2013) at Photography, Animation and Media Art Department in Vilnius Academy of Arts; Head of the Department since 2019 September.
Head of Doctoral Programme in Fine Art since 2019 September
Artistic Director of Nida Art Colony (2010 December – 2019 August)

Education and Post-doc Research:

Post-doc researcher on Artistic Research and Lithuanian Media Art in Vilnius Academy of Arts (2013–2015).
Doctor of philosophy (PhD) in communication and information studies (humanities) awarded in 2010 by Vilnius University; the dissertation was awarded as one of the three best theses in humanities and social sciences in Lithuania in 2010.
2005–2009 PhD student at Communication Faculty, Vilnius University.
2005 MA in Communication Studies (social sciences) at Communication Faculty, Vilnius University.
2003 BA in Information Studies (Informology) at Communication Faculty, Vilnius University, 2000/2001 Erasmus student at Lund University (Sweden).

Supervising experience (at Doctoral level)

Doctoral student Andrew Paterson in Aalto University (Helsinki, FI), School of Art, Design and Architecture since 2015/2016, estimated completion in 2024/2025.
Doctoral student in Fine arts Arnas Anskaitis with theme “Systems of Artistic Knowing, Mapping and Exposition” in Vilnius Academy of Arts since 2016/2017, successfully completed in 2021.
Doctoral student in Fine arts Vitalij Červiakov in Vilnius Academy of Arts since 2017/2018; successfully completed in 2022.
Doctoral student in Fine arts Robertas Narkus in Vilnius Academy of Arts since 2019/2020. Estimated completion on January 2025.
Doctoral student in Fine arts Valentinas Klimasauskas in Vilnius Academy of Arts since 2019/2020; successfully completed in 2024.
Doctoral student in Fine arts Monika Dirsyte in Vilnius Academy of Arts since 2020/2021.
Doctoral student in Fine arts Ignas Pavliukevicius in Vilnius Academy of Arts since 2020/2021.
Doctoral student in Fine arts Miklos Ambrozy in Vilnius Academy of Arts since 2021/2022.
A number of completed final theses (and art projects) of BA and MA students in arts, social sciences and humanities.

Participating in Doctoral Defence Committees (Viva Voce)

Reviewer/Examiner and Committee Member (1 of 3) of Sabine Popp dissertation „Agential Matter (Invisible Landscapes)“ Bergeno meno akademija, Bergen university, Norway, 2021.04.16 https://bergenateliergruppe.no/viva-voce-agential-matter/

Reviewer and opponent/examiner of Bart Vandeput dissertation „Baroa belaobara: Berryapple” Aalto University, Finland, 2021.06.11 https://www.aalto.fi/en/events/defence-of-doctoral-thesis-in-the-field-of-contemporary-art-bart-vandeput

Reviewer Reviewer/Examiner and Committee Member (1 of 5) of doctoral students at Vilnius Academy of Arts:

Algirdas Gataveckas (2016);
Akvilė Anglickaitė (2017);
Tomas Martišauskis (2021);
Marta Finkelštein (2023).

Teaching Experience

Since 2005 Lecturer (since 2022 Professor) at Photography, Animation and Media Art Department in Vilnius Academy of Arts.
2006–2015, 2022–… Lecturer at Communication Faculty in Vilnius University.
2007/2008 and 2015–2018 lecturer at European Humanities University.
Taught courses at EHU, ECAV (Sierre, Geneva), Aalto University and Sint Lucas Antwerpen Academy.

Research projects

Project leader and principal investigator (with prof. dr. Aldis Gedutis, prof. dr. Mika Elo, dr. Kęstas Kirtiklis, Jan Gloeckner), VDA project "Creative interdisciplinary New European Bauhaus (NEB)-research centre" funded by University Exellency initiative – Lithuanian Research Council, 2023–2027; expected outcome peer-reviewed collective monograph and a series of dissemination events.
Project leader and principal investigator / main researcher (with prof. dr. Aldis Gedutis), "The Impact of Artistic Research on the Humanities and Visual Arts. The case of Lithuania in a global context", funded by Lithuanian Research Council, 2020–2023. Production: research papers, presentations in conferences and a peer-reviewed book (monograph).
Project leader and researcher, Maps of Imagination and Ideas: the Application of Innovative Forms of Visualisation in Art, Cultural Communication, Education and Science (2017–2019), Lithuanian Council for Culture, Culture Research Programme. Production – Monograph – “Atlas of Diagrammatic Imagination. Maps in Art, Research and Education (2019).
Project Leader, Process, visualisation and dissemination of Lithuanian interdisciplinary artistic research (2014.07–12). Maps and the exhibition "Exhibition it* artistic research" (11.2014).
Project Leader, Independent Lithuanian Contemporary Art in the Centre and Regions: Artists' Initiatives in Lithuania 1987-2014, Commissioned by the Lithuanian Interdisciplinary Art Creators' Union (together with Kęstutis Šapoka) (2013.07.01 – 2014.12.31).
2012–2013 International research project "On Hosting and Displacing: Artistic Residencies and Cultural Production in Remote Contexts" in collaboration with "École cantonale d'art du Valais" (ECAV, Switzerland), principal researcher V.Michelkevičius together with F. Martini. Funded by Pro Helvetia Foundation, ECAV, VDA and KRF. Production: the international scientific-artistic symposium-conference Interformat "On Critical Tourism, Mestizoism and the Post-Romantic Condition" and its collection of articles "Tourists Like Us. Critical Tourism and Contemporary Art" (ECAV & VDA Press, 2013) (eds. Federica Martini & Vytautas Michelkevičius).
Project Leader, Independent Lithuanian Contemporary Art in the Centre and Regions: Artists' Initiatives in Lithuania 1987-2011, commissioned by the Lithuanian Interdisciplinary Art Creators' Union (together with Kęstutis Šapoka) (2010.07.01 – 2012.12.31).
Project Leader, Exploring the Baltic Countries: Photography by Young Artists in the Baltic Countries 2000-2011, Commissioned by Tallinn Academy of Fine Arts and the Tallinn Photographic Art Association (Marge Monko, Head of the Tallinn Photographic Art Association, Address: Kungla 4, Tallinn, Estonia, Tel.: +37256984161), 09.09.2009 – 2012.08.31.2011.
Project coordinator and researcher, "The History of Lithuanian Photography: socio-political, aesthetic and communicative aspects", Commissioned by Vilnius Academy of Arts (supervisor: Agnė Narušytė, Address: Maironio 6, Vilnius, Tel: 8-5-2105 439), financed by the Lithuanian Science Council, Research Group Projects, 01.07.2010 – 31.12.2011.
Project leader, Promotion of Science and Technology in the Online Journal of Media Culture www.balsas.cc, January–December 2007, financed by the Ministry of Education and Science.
Project Leader, "Lithuanian Photography Histories and Maps" (as a result of which a book was published and 4 exhibitions were held), Commissioned by the Lithuanian Union of Photographers, 2007–2008.

List of Selected Peer-Reviewed Publications (Books and articles)

Michelkevičius V. & Gedutis A. (2023). From Inter-Disciplinarity Towards Trans-Disciplinarity in Arts and Sciences: Presumptions for the Artistic Research and Doctoral Studies in Arts. Acta Academiae Artium Vilnensis, (109), 15–46. https://doi.org/10.37522/aaav.109.2023.158
Gedutis A., & Michelkevičius V. (2022). Argumentum ornithologicum: kaip sparnuočių metaforos padeda geriau suprasti meninį tyrimą? Sociologija. Mintis ir veiksmas, 2022, Nr. 2. https://doi.org/10.15388/SocMintVei.2022.2.37
Lina Michelkevičė and Vytautas Michelkevičius. „Artists Rewriting Art History through Artistic Research and Collecting in Lithuania: From Pavilion to Museum to Cemetery“. In Contemporary Ukrainian and Baltic Art Political and Social Perspectives, 1991–2021, edited by Svitlana Biedarieva, 137–163. Stuttgart: ibidem Press, 2021. ISBN 9783838215266.
Gedutis A., & Michelkevičius V. (2021). Meninis tyrimas: gegužiukas svetimame lizde ar epistemologiškai pagrįsta tyrimo strategija? [Artistic Research: A Cuckoo’s Egg in Other Bird’s Nest or an Epistemologically Justified Strategy of Research?] In: Problemos, 100, 167-179, 2021. Vilnius: Vilniaus universiteto leidykla. https://doi.org/10.15388/Problemos.100.13
Michelkevičius, V. BEING CENTRAL AND DISTANT: THE PROXIMITY OF THE REMOTE RESIDENCY. In: From The Centre of The Periphery, p. 98-105, 2021, Art edition / Verlag Bibliothek der Provinz: Krems an der Donau.
Michelkevičius, V. „Once I Was An Artist, Now I Am A Supervisor: Notes On Admitting And Supervising In 3rd (CrD) Cycle Programmes In The Arts“. In: „Creator Doctus Constellation“, p. 67-76, Amsterdam: Gerrit Rietveld Academie, EQ-Arts, 2021. ISBN/EAN: 978-90-830969-1-92021.
Atlas of Diagrammatic Imagination: Maps in Research, Art and Education (eds. Lina Michelkevičius & Vytautas Michelkevičius), Vilnius Academy of the Arts, 2019, 208 pages. https://www.academia.edu/42151618/Atlas_of_Diagrammatic_Imagination_Maps_in_Research_Art_and_Education_Diagramin%C4%97s_vaizduot%C4%97s_atlasas_%C5%BEem%C4%97lapiai_tyrimuose_mene_ir_edukacijoje
Michelkevičius V. Hybrid(...)scapes from Body to Text: Artistic and Curatorial Research Through the Exhibition at the Nida Art Colony. In ACOUSTIC SPACE. OPEN FIELDS (peer-reviewed journal). VIRTUALITIES AND REALITIES New Experiences, Art and Ecologies in Immersive Environments, Volume No. 17, Editors: Rasa Smite & Raitis Smits, 2019, RIXC, Riga & Liepaja University MPLab, Liepaja, pp. 70-83, ISSN 1407-2858; ISBN 978-9934843471.
Michelkevičius V. Rooted and Slow Institutions Reside in Remote Places” // “Contemporary Artist Residencies. Reclaiming Time and Space” (eds. Taru Elfving, Irmeli Kokko, Pascal Gielen), Valiz & Helsinki University of the Arts, 2019.
Michelkevičius V. [monograph] „Mapping Artistic Research. Towards Diagrammatic Knowing“, Vilnius Academy of Arts Press, 2018. https://www.academia.edu/35412809/Mapping_Artistic_Research_Towards_Diagrammatic_Knowing
Vytautas Michelkevičius. Conception of Artistic Research In Education: How Do They (Artists) Know Better And Deeper? // Acta Academiae Artium Vilnensis (Education In, For And Through Art // Edukacija mene, menui, per meną), Vilnius : Vilniaus dailės akademijos leidykla, 2017, p. 83-103. ISSN 1392-0316.
Michelkevičius V. [monograph] „MENINIO TYRIMO SUVESTÌ. Žinojimo kontūrais“, VDA leidykla, 2016.
Michelkevičius V., Michelkevičė L. Unwritten Histories of Extinct Media Art in Lithuania: From the 2000s of Great Promise to the Multidirectional 2010s. In ACOUSTIC SPACE. OPEN FIELDS (peer-reviewed journal). Art and Science Research Practices in the Network Society, Volume No. 15, Editors: Rasa Smite, Raitis Smits, Armin Medosch, 2016, RIXC, Riga & Liepaja University MPLab, Liepaja, pp. 70-83, ISSN 1407-2858; ISBN 978-9934-8434-5-7.
Michelkevičius V. [monograph] „MENINIO TYRIMO SUVESTÌ. Žinojimo kontūrais“, VDA leidykla, 2016.
Michelkevičius V. Definitions and Contexts of Artistic Research: Confusing Starting Points / Meninio tyrimo sampratos ir kontekstai: paini pradžia ir atspirties taškai // Artistic Research: Theory and Practice / "Meninis tyrimas: teorijos ir praktikos" // Acta Academiae Artium Vilnensis (ed. V. Michelkevičius), Nr. 79, pp. 31-43, VDA leidykla 2015.
Michelkevičius V. Artistic (Re)Search and Production in Resilient Landscape: Case Study of Nida Art Colony, In Acoustic Space vol. 12 Thematic Issue on Techno Ecologies 2: Media Art Histories, Liepaja University and RIXC, 2014, p. 56-67.
Michelkevičius V. “Artistic Research in Green Cube” Conference Proceedings - book „Tourists Like Us: Critical Tourism and Contemporary Art“ (eds. Federica Martini & Vytautas Michelkevičius), Sierre: ECAV, Nida: VAA Press and Nida Art Colony, 2013, 264 p.
Michelkevičius V. Notes on Interdisciplinary Methodology of Artistic Research: Visual Thinking, Writing and Mapping, In Acta Academiae Artium Vilnensis, Nr. 64, 2012.
Michelkevičius V. [monograph] „The Lithuanian SSR Society of Art Photography (1969-1989). An image production network“, Vilnius Academy of Arts Press, 2011.
Michelkevičius V. [monograph] LTSR fotografijos meno draugija – vaizdų gamybos tinklas, Vilniaus dailės akademijos leidykla, 2011.
Michelkevicius V. Towards Conceptual Definition of Post-Photography: Lithuanian Case. Proceedings of the International Conference “Vilnius Photography School. The Issues of Continuity and New Strategies”, Lithuanian Art Museum, 2008.
Michelkevicius V. The Interaction between Art and Communication Studies: Media and Media Art. // Medijų studijos: filosofija komunikacija menas (Media Studies: Philosophy, Communication, Art), Ed. V. Michelkevicius. Acta Academiae Artium Vilnensis, nr. 44, 2007, pp. 37-60. ISSN 1392-0316.
Michelkevicius V. Photography as a Medium: A Triadic Model of Interpretation // SHIFTS: Archives in Dialogue and New Identities in Documentarism. Sunderland: Sunderland University, conference proceedings, 2006, pp. 137-140. ISBN 1-873-16-6.

Expertise activities

Member of Doctoral Committee in Fine Arts since 2019.
Leader of the writing group of regulating document of Media Arts Studies in Lithuania, Study Quality Assurance Center, 2021.
Board member of Nida Doctoral School since 2015.
Board Member of Nida Art Colony since 2019.

Academic memberships

Member of Society for Artistic Research (SAR) since 2014.
Member of Editorial Board of international peer-reviewed journal „Acoustic Space“ for transdisciplinary research on art, science, technology and society since 2015.
Researcher and manager of Creator Doctus, representative of Vilnius Academy of Arts in Erasmus+ Strategic Partnership 2018–2021. More http://creatordoctus.eu/

Residencies and fellowships:

Skaftfell - Center for Visual Art, September, 2021.
Transfer North Curatorial and Critical Writing Residency in North Norwegian Art Centre (Lofoten islands, Svolvær) and Tromso, 2017.
4 research (post-doc) residencies from 2 to 4 weeks at Helsinki University of the Arts (FI), MaHKU - Utrecht Graduate School of Visual Art and Design (NL), School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC, USA), Royal College of Art (RCA, London, UK), 2013–2015.
2014 February, Curator-in-residency at DCR Guest Studio, The Hague, Netherlands.
2010 June, Curator in Residency at Atelier House PROGR, Bern, Switzerland.
2008/2009, DAAD Research Fellowship at Academy of Media Arts in Cologne.
2005 September-October, artist-in-residence program, Künstlerhaus FRISE, Hamburg.
2004/2005 Herder Stipendium (A. Toepfer Stiftung F.V.S. Hamburg) for one year studies in Vienna University and University of Applied Arts Vienna.

Conferences

Performative keynote talk at Half-life — Half-alive, in a 12-hour performative event focused on artistic research, November 24th 2023, from 11 am to 11 pm, Academy of Fine Arts Prague, Czech Republic.
Presentation “AI, 5G and other Urgencies for Artistic Research in the Global European East”, keynote talk at 1st International Conference Methodological and Cognitive Aspects of Visual Arts, Wroclaw, Poland, 2023 09 26–29.
Artistic Research Symposium “Not Only”, keynote talk “Artistic Research Encounters with Trans-epistemic Communities”, International Centre for Knowledge in the Arts, Royal Danish Academy of Arts, Copenhagen, 2021 10 28–29 https://artisticresearch.dk/en/activities/symposium-october-28-29
“To Research or Not To Research in the Postdisciplinary Academy?”, X-disciplinary Congress on Artistic Research and Related Matters, presentation together with Aldis Gedutis. “How Ornithology Helps to Understand (Epistemology of) Artistic Research Better”, Vilnius Academy of Arts & SODAS 2123, Vilnius 2021 10 15–17 https://www.vda.lt/en/doctoral-studies/congress-2021/programme
Conference “The Making of the Humanities IX”, presentation together with Aldis Gedutis, “A New Cuckoo Egg in the Nest: Is Artistic Research a Para-Discipline of Humanities?”, Society for the History of the Humanites, Pompeu Fabra University (UPF), Barcelona, and Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC), Barcelona 2021 09 20–21 http://www.historyofhumanities.org/previous-meetings/barcelona-2021/preliminary-program-the-making-of-the-humanities-ix/
Conference Post-research Condition, talk “Atlas of Diagrammatic Imagination”, HKU University of the Arts Utrecht, Netherlends, 2021 01 27 https://www.hku.nl/en/study-at-hku/creative-transformation/pre-phd-programme/the-postresearch-condition
Conference Czy badania artystyczne? (Were is Artistic Research in the End?), Vytautas Michelkevičius. Where is Artistic Research in the Academy: Underground, Überground or at the Rectors' Office? Akademia Sztuk Pieknych we Wroclawiu, Wroclaw, 2020 10 21–23.
Conference and Art festival UN/GREEN: NATURALLY ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCES. Vytautas MICHELKEVICIUS. (Per)forming Ecotopias in the Green Cube: Agency of Plants, Gears and Landscapes, RIXC, Riga, Latvia, 2019 07 06.
EUCIDA project Symposium „Reality Turn“. Vytautas Michelkevičius. What is the greenest of them all? The role of time and place in the (artistic) research. 2019 May 15–16, RIXC, Riga / Lūznava, Latvia.
9th SAR - International Conference on Artistic Research “ARTISTIC RESEARCH WILL EAT ITSELF”, Presentation “The Tempting and Poisonous (Precarious) Taste of Artistic Research for Curators and Social-Humanities Researchers”, University of Plymouth, UK, April 11–13, 2018.
International Conference VIRTUALITIES AND REALITIES, presentation (together with Lina Michelkevičė) “Other Virtuality: Tracing the Real in Maps and Diagrams within Artistic Research”, RIXC, The Art Academy of Latvia, Riga, October 19–21, 2017.
„Please Specify! International Conference on Artistic Research – SAR 2017“, presentation Along Contours of Knowing: Mapping Artistic Research by Curator, Tutor, Artist, Researcher, ..., and Translator in Lithuania and Beyond“, University of the Arts Helsinki, Suomija, April 28–29, 2017.
International Conference „Open Fields“, presentation “I am a scientist and I am a researcher; I am an artist, I am a curator, who am I?”, Liepaja University MPlab and RIXC, Riga, 2016 09 29 – 10 01.
RENEWABLE FUTURES 2015 Conference: Transformative Potential of Art in the Age of Post-Media, presentation “Hand-drawn Visualisations and Maps as Research Texts in the Age of Big Data”, Art Research Lab of Liepaja University and RIXC, Riga, October 8–10, 2015.
Media Art Histories 2013: RENEW: The 5th International Conference on the Histories of Media Art, Science and Technology, Presentation „Mapping and Archiving Lithuanian Media Art: Regional Failures and Achievements since 2000s“,Liepaja university and RIXC, Riga, 2013 10 8–11.
International Conference „Socialist Realist Art: Production, Consumption and the Aesthetics of Power“, Presentation „Lithuanian School of Photography as a Unified Style Based on Socialist Realism“, Södertörn University, Stockholm, 2012 10 19–20.
International Conference “Art of Resilience”, presentation Artefacts From The Locus Of Nida Art Colony: National Nature Park As A Site For Techno-Ecological Interventions From XIX Till XXI Century, RIXC, Riga, 2012 10 06.
International Conference „Media Culture: Art, Communication, Technologies“, Presentation „Medium via Medium about Medium: Media as a Tool of Inquiry in the Hands of Artist and Media Researcher“, Vytautas Magnus University, 2012 04 12.
International Conference „Photography Into Contemporary Art: The Bigger Picture“. Presentation „The Dispositif of Photography and Contemporary Art in Lithuania since 1969“. University of Essex, Colchester, UK. 2009 05 15.
International Seminar “Spaces of Art“. Presentation „From Institutional To Internet Space: Migration Of The Art Objects And Their Dematerialization“. Copenhagen Doctoral School in Cultural Studies at University of Copenhagen. 2008 05 01–03.
International conference “Re:place: 2007. On the histories of media, art, science and technology”, Presentation “(Post)Photography and Media Art: Rethinking Institutionalization and Public Curatorship in Lithuania”, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany, 2007 11 15–18.
International Photography Research Network (IPRN) Conference “SHIFTS“, Presentation “Photography as A Medium: A Triadic Model of Interpretation”, University of Jyväskylä and Centre for Creative Photography, Finland, 2006 10 19–22.
Conference “Media Sphere: Philosophy, Communication, Art”, Presentation “Media as an Object of Academic Studies: between Philosophy, Art and Communication”. Vilnius Academy of Arts, 2006 10 05–06.
Conference “New Media – New Contexts”, Presentation “The Territories of New Media: Between Non-formal and Academic Communities”. Šiauliai University and Šiauliai Art Gallery, Lithuania, 2006 04 27.

Curatorship (Curatorial projects)

Commissionaire and curator of exhibition “When the Wind Blows from Everywhere, We Make Art and (Sur)render Reality” at festival Ars Electronica, 2022, Linz, Austria.
Artistic director of X-disciplinary festival "Ūmėdė" at "SODAS 2123", Vilnius, 2021 06 14–17, www.umede.lt
Curator and commissionaire of festival Ars Electronica Garden Vilnius, SODAS 2123, Vilnius, 2020 September, https://ars.electronica.art/keplersgardens/en/groves/
Curator of 9th Interformat Symposium On Fluidity of Humour and Absurdity, together with Livia Paldi, Nida Art Colony, 2019. http://nidacolony.lt/en/projects/symposium/inter-format-symposium-2019
Curator of international group residency and exhibition “(Per)forming Scapes”, Nida Art Colony of Vilnius Academy of Arts, Neringa, Lithuania, 2018 July-August. http://nidacolony.lt/en/exhibitions/per-forming-scapes-2018
Curator of artistic researchers’ exhibition WORKTOP<>DESKTOP<>SHOWTOP (Darbalaukis), Titanikas exhibition space, Vilnius, Lithuania, 2017 April-May. http://meninistyrimas.lt/
Curator of international group exhibition “Hybrid(…)scapes”, Nida Art Colony of Vilnius Academy of Arts, Neringa, Lithuania, 2016 July–August. http://nidacolony.lt/en/exhibitions/hybrid-scapes-exhibition
Curator/organiser of a series of yearly academic and artistic conferences – Inter-format Symposium in Nida Art Colony of Vilnius Academy of Arts since 2011 (9 editions so far) http://nidacolony.lt/en/projects/symposium
Curator and 1^st Commissionaire of Lithuanian Pavilion in 56^th International Art Exhibition - la Biennale di Venezia 2015 (Dainius Liškevičius Project MUSEUM).
Curator of artistic research exhibition „Exhibition as/if Artistic Research“, project space „Malonioji 6“, Vilnius, 2014 November.
Techno-ecologies residency programme at Nida Art Colony, 2012–2014.
Curator of the exhibition “Generation of the Place (In our own place), Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius, 2012.
Curator of the exhibition of Generation of the Place: Image, Memory and Fiction in the Baltics at Tallinn Exhibition Hall (Estonia) in 2011.
Moderator of workshop “Academy of a Gallery” for young artists. Magazine “Gallery Log” was published as an outcome of the workshop, 2008 09–10.
Media Ecology Party with “fishing” sound performance by PB8 and newspaper presentation on the river platform KultFlux, 2008 08, Vilnius.
photo/carto/historio/graphies: Mapping Lithuanian Photography (chief curator), series of exhibitions in 4 galleries, Vilnius, Kaunas, Šiauliai, Lithuania, 2007–2008. (Book-catalogue (EN/LT), website http://www.3xposition.lt/kartografija/ - only in Lithuanian).
Curator of thematic shows in Media Art festival ENTER5 and ENTER6, Šiauliai, Lithuania, 2007 and 2008.
Exhibition “Comments@3xpozicija.lt: Post-photographical Condition in Contemporary Art” (Co-curator). Prospektas Gallery of Photography, Vilnius, 2006 (Catalogue (EN/LT), website www.3xposition.lt).
Editor and co-founder of internet journal on media culture “Balsas” (www.balsas.cc), established in 2005 together with dr. Geert Lovink and Nomeda & Gediminas Urbonas; closed in 2009.
Coordinator of international workshop RAM6 (Re-Approaching new Media) – www.ram-net.net, www.vilma.cc, Contemporary Art Center, Vilnius, 2004 08.

Editorship of the books and magazines

(In)dependent Contemporary Art Histories: Artist-run Initiatives in Lithuania 1980-2022 = „(Ne)priklausomo šiuolaikinio meno istorijos: savivaldos ir iniciatyvos Lietuvoje 1980–2022 m. III tomas (LT/ENG)“. Edited by Vytautas Michelkevičius, Karolina Rybačiauskaitė ir Kęstutis Šapoka. Lietuvos tarpdisciplininio meno kūrėjų sąjunga (LTMKS) & MENE, 2022. – 624 p.
Michelkevičius V. (ed.) Nida Art Colony. On Lines & Rituals. Log No. 9. Vilnius Academy of Arts, 2019. Printed and online http://nidacolony.lt/images/docs/December_2019/Log09_On_Lines_and_Rituals.pdf
Postdisciplininis leksikonas / Postdisciplinary lexicon. Sudarė (editor) Vytautas Michelkevičius. LTMKS, 2018, 192 psl.
Michelkevičius V. (ed.) Meninis tyrimas: teorija ir praktika / Artistic Research: Theory and Practice, ACTA ACADEMIAE ARTIUM VILNENSIS (Academic Peer- reviewed journal of Vilnius Academy of Arts), 2015 / 79.
Michelkevicius V. (co-editor with Kęstutis Šapoka). (In)dependent Contemporary Art Histories: Artist-run Initiatives in Lithuania 1987-2014. 2^nd volume (Lithuanian Interdisciplinary Artists’ Association, 2014)
Michelkevičius V. ((co-editor with Federica Martini), Tourists Like Us: Critical Tourism and Contemporary Art, Sierre: ECAV, Nida: VAA Press and Nida Art Colony, 2013, 264 p.
Michelkevicius V. (co-editor with Kęstutis Šapoka). (In)dependent Contemporary Art Histories: Artist-run Initiatives in Lithuania 1987-2011 (Lithuanian Interdisciplinary Artists’ Association, 2011)
Michelkevicius V. (editor). Generation of the Place: Image, Memory and Fiction in the Baltics (Mene, 2011).
Michelkevicius V. (editor). Voices of Media Culture: Theories and Practices (in Lithuanian “Mediju kulturos balsai: teorijos ir praktikos). MENE, 2009. ISBN 978-9955-834-02-1.
Michelkevicius V. (co-editor with A.Narusyte and L.Michelkevice) Mapping Lithuanian Photography: Histories and Archives. MENE, 2007. ISBN 978-9955-834-00-7.
Michelkevicius V. and Klimasauskas V. (editors) Asteroid Voice / Asteroido Balsas. A “What if?” Newspaper on the single day dedicated for immateriality and speculativeness. Balsas.cc / CAC, 2007.
Michelkevicius V. (editor) Media Studies: Philosophy, Communication, Art. Peer- reviewed journal ACTA ACADEMIAE ARTIUM VILNENSIS No. 44. Vilnius Academy of Fine Arts Press, 2007. ISBN: 978-9955-624-81-3, ISSN: 1392-0316.

Some critical writing and interviews

Post-symposium Conversation on 'Rites and Terrabytes': Traces, Keywords and Post-colonial Learnings, 2019. http://echogonewrong.com/post-symposium-conversation-rites-terrabytes-traces-keywords-post-colonial-learnings/
Curatorial & Biographical Conversation Approaching the 8th Inter-format Symposium on Rites and Terrabytes in Nida Art Colony, 2018. http://echogonewrong.com/curatorial-biographical-conversation-approaching-8th-inter-format-symposium-rites-terrabytes-nida-art-colony/
Artistic Research in the Global East: A Book with (Pro)Positions from Lithuania, 2019. https://www.jar-online.net/artistic-research-global-east-book-propositions-lithuania

Other cultural and academic activities:

Chairman and curator of Lithuanian Interdisciplinary Artists’ Association 2010–2016 (www.letmekoo.lt).
Expert of Lithuanian Ministry of Culture since 2011.
Member of Advisory Board of Lithuanian Minister of Culture since 2017.

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