DEJAN LUKIĆ (Ph.D. Columbia University) is a professor at the Institute for Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts (IDSVA). He is a scholar and writer with vast teaching experience stemming from arts schools, liberal arts colleges, and research universities, including: Reed College, Rutgers University, The New School, Columbia University, and the School of Visual Arts in New York. His work revolves around the inescapable convergence between art, anthropology, and philosophy. He is a founder of the Vitalist Cuisine and Step Not Beyond projects, which are informed by future pedagogies of creativity. He is currently writing a trilogy titled “Emanations" that covers themes of charisma, enchantment, nature, light and shadows, and multi-ontologies.