Mindaugas Gapševičius, co-curator of TRACES project was born in 1974 in Lithuania. He is an artist, facilitator, and curator living and working between Berlin, London and Vilnius. Gapševičius earned his MA at Vilnius Academy of Arts in 1999 and started doing his PhD at Goldsmiths University in 2010. He has taken part in a numerous solo and group exhibitions around Europe and is an active participant in various conferences and workshops related to net culture: Re-Approaching new Media (RAM) in Vilnius (LT), Interfiction in Kassel (DE), and Plektrum in Tallinn (EE). Gapševičius collaboratively initiated several major international cultural/educational projects including o-o Institutio Media (http://www.o-o.lt), Migrating Reality (http://www.migrating-reality.com), and the Migrating Art Academies (http://www.migaa.eu).