Václav Janoščík is a pedagogue, theorist and curator currently teaching at Academy of Fine Arts (AVU) and Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague (UMPRUM). He edited several volumes on problems of contemporary thinking ranging from new materialism, speculative realism, acceleration, future and media theory (Object, 2015 [CZ]; Reinventing Horizons, 2016; Mind in Terrain, 2018 [CZ]; Back to the Future (2019) [CZ]). His own books include Nonsleeping (2018) [CZ] giving a highly personal account of social acceleration or abstraction, and Straining the Contemporary, Detective Search for a Shared World (2020) [CZ], Dystopian Realism, How to learn through Capitalism and Dark Futures (2022) [CZ] which try to reinterpret and weaponize pop-culture. He curates extensively, focusing on expanding art into gaming, technology or experimental and collaborative practices. He focuses on political ecology (of affects), vernacular ontologies, philosophy of technics and media, democratization of contemporary art, thinking, and gaming.