Recently launched The Deep Splash is a website documenting the diverging ideas and motivations of Lithuanian émigrés working in the Arts. This week we invite you to explore the ideas and motivations of Tomas Čiučelis – philosophy researcher, translator, and critic who lives and works in Dundee, Scotland. During the time spent living in Vilnius and London, Tomas translated two books (Lev Manovich, Language of New Media; and Noam Chomsky, Hegemony or Survival), gave public talks and participated in contemporary art projects. Currently he is a columnist at the Echo Gone Wrong magazine, and in his spare time Tomas is also a jazz guitar performer.
In his research Tomas Čiučelis uses the heritage of continental thinkers such as M. Heidegger and J. Derrida as well as the developments of speculative realism to reflect on the problems of outsideness, namely: outside language, outside reason, outside human experience.
