BIO
Lukáš Likavčan (*1991, Nové Zámky, Slovakia) is Global Perspectives on Society Postdoctoral Fellow at NYU Shanghai, guest researcher at Astronomy & Society Group (Leiden University) and affiliate researcher at Antikythera (Berggruen Institute). His areas of expertise span philosophy of science & technology and environmental philosophy.
Previously, Likavčan studied philosophy at Masaryk University, where he also obtained his PhD in environmental studies. He held visiting research positions at Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University and Earth-Life Science Institute (Tokyo Institute of Technology); faculty positions at Strelka Institute for Media, Architecture and Design as well as Center for Audiovisual Studies FAMU in Prague; and fellowships at Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava and BAK, basis voor actuele kunst, Utrecht.
He is an author of Introduction to Comparative Planetology (Strelka Press, 2019).
email: lukas.likavcan [at] nyu.edu
ENS: likavcan .eth
CV: download
Mastodon: likavcan@fediscience.org
PROJECTS
2023
More-than-Planet - working group convenor in the project led by Waag, Amsterdam (NL)
2022
Future Landscapes - field researcher & film protagonist, directed by Ivo Bystřičan (CZ/IS)
The Gift That Keeps on Giving - online series developed for Goethe Institut Slovakia (DE/SK)
The Ochre and the Cave w/ Thiago de Paula Souza - exhibition in two parts at Display, Prague (CZ)
Inspiration Forum LAB - theory tutor, Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival (CZ)
2021
The Moons of Pluto w/ András Cséfalvay - audiovisual work commissioned by KW Berlin (DE)
Fotograf Festival 11: Earthlings - curator, Prague (CZ)
2020
Digital Earth - research fellowship collaborator, Hivos, The Hague (NL)
Technologies of the Sacred - online exhibition, Display, Prague (CZ)
Architectures of Nature - event series, VI PER, Prague (CZ)
2019
Accidental Geopoetics w/ The Rodina - Sonic Acts 2019, Amsterdam (NL)
2018
Civilisation at the Crossroads - co-curator, Futura & Display, Prague (CZ)