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Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of California Los Angeles
UC | CSU Collaborative for Neuroscience and Learning, School of Education & Information Sciences
Los Angeles, California, 10/2025 – Present
Conducting independent and collaborative cognitive neuroscience research within an interdisciplinary UC–CSU consortium, investigating the neurophysiological mechanisms underlying auditory distraction, language processing, and memory encoding. Research integrates electroencephalography (EEG) with behavioural paradigms to elucidate how acoustic noise modulates cortical responses implicated in comprehension and learning. Employs MATLAB and Python for EEG signal processing, experimental scripting, and statistical modelling, with SQL utilised for structured management and querying of large-scale datasets.
Professional development:
Seminar Attendance, “Brains, Bodies, and Buildings: Neuro-Architecture and the Spaces That Shape Us” Stanford University School of Medicine, Jan 26 to Mar 9, 2026.
Conference Presentation, “Guarding the Past: Memory Securitization and Museum Collections,” Museums and Memory Working Group, Memory Studies Association, University of Southern California Los Angeles, January 24 - 25, 2025.
Conference Attendance, “Violence and Repair” at the 2024 Mnemonic Summer School, University of California Los Angeles, July 9 - 11, 2024.
Conference Attendance, “Form, Production and Transknowledge in Soviet Modernity” at the Institut für Kunstgeschichte, Universität Wien, September 25 - 26, 2024.
Conference Attendance, “Westsplaining in Art History” at the Institute of Art History and Visual Culture, Tallinn, June 28, 2024.
Conference Attendance, “Cultural Heterologies and Democracy: Transitions and Transformations in Post-Socialist Cultures in the 1980s and 1990s” at the Estonian Academy of Art, Tallinn, June 26 - 28, 2024.
Conference Attendance, “Bridge-Building through Art Exhibitions: the Cold War Divide, the Fall of the Wall, and Beyond” at Södertörn University, Huddinge, Sweden, March 21 - 22, 2024.
Past appointments:
Visiting researcher, Wende Museum of the Cold War
Culver City, California, 08/2024 – 02/2025
Initiated a comparative research project examining collection management strategies for Soviet heritage artifacts across former Soviet Union countries. I analyzed preservation methodologies, cataloging systems, and exhibition approaches, while investigating how political transitions influenced curatorial decisions in post-Soviet states. Through collaboration with an international network of heritage specialists, I documented best practices and developed a taxonomy of challenges unique to Soviet heritage preservation. My findings were presented at the 2025 Museums and Memory Working Group Conference.
Visiting researcher, McGill University
Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures: Russian and Slavic Studies, Montreal, Quebec, 09/2022 – 05/2023
Organized an interdisciplinary working group on "Memory Studies in Post-Socialist Contexts” and collaborated with department members on a digital archive of Soviet-era visual materials for teaching and research. Conducted primary research on cultural memory in Soviet and post-Soviet visual culture and mentored undergraduate students working on related research topics.
Laurentius de Voltolina, Aristotle Lectures His Students, second half of fourteenth century. Collection: Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Kupferstichkabinett. License: Public domain.
Since 2022, I’ve produced and hosted a radio program interviewing public intellectuals and contemporary artists across diverse mediums and disciplines. I worked out of the CKUT Radio Station at McGill University from 2022-2023, before moving the program to Radio Vilnius in 2023.
Publications:
Poetics of Transgression (2019) Successful Press, Motto Books Berlin. Paperback.
Event Curator, “Another Year, Wishes” featuring Evaldas Jansas, at Joys, Toronto, on view January 1, 2024.
One of the earliest Lithuanian video works was Evaldas Jansas’ “Linkejimai/Wishes,” which was filmed in 1998 on the days leading up to New Year’s Eve. In ‘Linkejimai’ Jansas asks passersby in various locales, on the street; in bars; and at the contemporary art centre, what they wish for themselves and for others. Jansas invites strangers to articulate their values, fantasies, anxieties and epistemologies. Since 2018, I’ve organized annual screenings of this work on New Years Eve and New Years Day in partnership with various contemporary art institutions.
Founding Director
Bunker 2 Contemporary
Bunker 2 Contemporary was a project space based out of a repurposed shipping container, providing much-needed exhibition opportunities for emerging, experimental artists in Toronto. The space was active November 2016 to September 2021.
Bunker 2 Contemporary
Bunker 2 Contemporary was a project space based out of a repurposed shipping container, providing much-needed exhibition opportunities for emerging, experimental artists in Toronto. The space was active November 2016 to September 2021.
1/2 Exhibition Curator, “Conservatory” featuring Ronan Stewart, on view May 11 —June 4, 2017.
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1/3 Exhibition Curator, “long pause” featuring Robert Anthony O’Halloran, on view September 17—October 8, 2017.
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Art Gallery of Ontario
09/2016 - 05/2018
Developed public programming initiatives aimed at youth engagement with the permanent collection, including pop-up exhibitions, artist talks and workshops. Supported the museum's contemporary art curator in researching the collection.
Curatorial Research Assistant
Gallery TPW
05/2017 - 10/2017
Led research on the ‘educational turn’ in contemporary art programming, producing a comprehensive report on global museum trends that informed the gallery's public outreach and engagement strategy. Conducted comprehensive research on museum education trends across 50+ international institutions.