Paulius Šaparnis

About

Creative developer and interactive artist, Vilnius

Art that people play.

A phone becomes a controller. A facade becomes a game. A bus becomes an instrument.

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Background

I write the software and build the installations and objects myself, with collaborators when needed. I can change the code, the object and the rules until the piece fits its site.

In 2014 I founded IŠKROVOS, an arts and music festival in Panevėžys, and I still direct it.

Fingers turning a black knob set into the metal pipe of the Pipe Synthesizer
Turning a knob on the Pipe Synthesizer, Laisvės Square, 2024.
The Pipe Synthesizer standing in red light in a dark room
Pipe Synthesizer at IŠKROVOS, 2025.

Selected work

  1. 2027BlocksLlum BCN, Barcelona. Invited, in production
  2. 2026Ping PongVilnius Light Festival, Contemporary Art Centre. With Aleksandr Voronovič
  3. 2026HyphaeIŠKROVOS festival, gallery programme Gijos, Panevėžys
  4. 2025BlocksVilnius Light Festival, Vytis Gymnasium
  5. 2025Pipe SynthesizerIŠKROVOS festival, Panevėžys
  6. 2024Pipe SynthesizerLaisvės Square, Panevėžys
  7. 2024Animated Glowing Stained GlassLight installations, Panevėžys Wedding Palace and Culture Palace
  8. 2022Bus SynthesizerPanevėžys bus depot. With the creativity centre Pragiedruliai
  9. 2017Calm and Fright – PortraitsTravelling photography exhibition, 2017 to 2019
  10. 2014IŠKROVOSFounder of the arts and music festival, Panevėžys
A hand typing on a laptop that shows code, set on a red bus seat
The code for the Bus Synthesizer, on a bus seat, 2022.