Edvardas Šumila is a scholar, writer, and curator, currently a PhD candidate at The New School for Social Research. He started off as a pianist and entered the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre, where he became interested in scholarship and his activities turned to musicology. Gradually, he established his interests mainly in critical theory, aesthetics and politics, artistic intersectionality, and political commitment with a particular focus on the thought of Theodor W. Adorno. Recently he has been working on the theories of Second Nature in relation to the theories of the environment. He is one of the founders and curators of AHEAD, a festival for electronic sound practices, and has curated and directed a number of other festivals, events, and exhibitions.