Career Personality Quiz

1) I love travelling through the secret layers of virtual worlds and getting lost in glitchy dimensions.

• True — I practically live inside polygonal dreamlands
• False — physical reality is already confusing enough
• Depends — only if there are hidden portals and experimental soundscapes involved

2) Pick a bedroom:

3) As a child I secretly wanted to become a marine biologist.

• True — I used to obsess over planktons and dolphins
• False — I wanted to be an astronaut / magician / conceptual artist from the very start
• Half-true — I wanted to work with weird ecosystems, regardless of the planet

4) Pick a mood ring:

5) Your close artist friend keeps receiving rejections from residency applications. You…

• encourage them not to give up and maybe explore a new medium (e.g. weaving, speculative cartography, slime research)
• propose a spontaneous trip to the Far East to rebalance the energy
• take them to a tarot / aura / palm reader for advice from the metaphysical realm
• just gift them a ChatGPT Premium subscription

6) Pick a teen series:

7) Your research practice...

• shifts and mutates like a living organism
• is steady, focused, precise and rooted in one clear theme
• "research??" I just make things and see what happens

8) The word "curation" means…

• bringing hidden gems to light and creating a space for intensely unlikely conversations
• inviting only trending artists, because why put your good name at risk
• a practice of care and attention — like tending to a garden of ideas
• selecting whatever works best with the institutional agenda so the funding flows smoothly
• honestly no idea..

9) Your dream travel destination:

• Japan — obviously, for art residencies, convenience-store culture and moss gardens
• the Chilean Atacama desert to experience the most cosmic night sky
• a floating research station in the Arctic (with artists, scientists and hot tea)
• a fully immersive VR pavilion co-developed by NASA and a group of Lithuanian cyberfeminists

10) When you hear the word "archive", what do you imagine?

• a dusty library full of forgotten diagrams and secret marginalia
• a living organism that keeps rewriting itself every time you open the drawer
• a perfectly organised cabinet with labels, gloves and white cotton
• … a chaotic Dropbox folder named "final_final_FINAL2"

11) Your ideal collaboration partner would be…

• an astrophysicist with a poetic soul
• a hacker/DIY engineer who can build instruments from trash
• another artist obsessed with speculative futures
• actually, I prefer to work alone (I'm a one-person research institute)

12) In order to get inspired you usually…

• read obscure theory books written in the 1970s
• go for solitary walks and record field sounds
• dive into random YouTube algorithm rabbit holes
• open 87 browser tabs and start procrastinating beautifully

13) When it comes to income as an artist / researcher…

• I survive on irregular grants, side gigs and cosmic luck
• I have a stable job that secretly funds my experimental practice
• I occasionally sell things / get commissions, but money feels like a parallel universe
• I'm still hoping that one day an art & science patron will simply adopt me