Rokas Vaičiulis is a creator and researcher working at the intersection of contemporary philosophy and art, living in Vilnius. They are currently a philosophy PhD candidate at Vilnius University, where they investigate the notion of more-than-human agency and philosophy of technology. Together with philosopher Kristupas Sabolius, they teach courses on aesthetics, contemporary art and philosophy, and theories of imagination. Research interests include theories of cybernetics, critical theory, philosophy of art and culture, media theories, psychoanalysis, and contemporary ontologies. Vaičiulis has presented research papers at international conferences such as the “6th Biannual Conference on the Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence” (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam), the “8th International PhD Congress: Systems and Knowledge” (Università Ca’ Foscari, Venice), and “One Hundred Years of Deleuze(ness)” (National Gallery of Art, Vilnius).
Vaičiulis’s artistic interests comprise of speculative and auto-theoretical thought, cooperative knowledge exchange, roleplay, fictional and intermedial practices in written, musical, and audiovisual form – aptly prominent in the scenarios where contemporary subjectivity and new media cultures overlap. In 2023, Vaičiulis participated in Rupert’s Alternative Education Program, and produced an installation featuring a variation-in-progress of the video piece Unlived Experience, the later variation was screened in 2024 as part of Open Secret, a world-touring short experimental film program on internet aesthetics, at the gallery Medūza (Vilnius). An essay on the CoreCore aesthetic has appeared in the group publication Dialogues on CoreCore & the Contemporary Online Avant-Garde (Becoming, Berlin/Nicosia). In the past, they curated Letters to Zoey, an online publication dedicated to the theme of love and empathy (in collaboration with the Kaunas gallery 101), published texts for Artnews.lt, served as a mediator in art spaces (Editorial, Vilnius; the Lithuanian Pavilion at the 59th Venice Biennale), and have been a long-term creative collaborator with Aikas Žado Laboratory(Žeimiai Manor House).
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