Maija Demitere is an artist, doctoral student at Liepaja University and working as a project coordinator at Art Research Laboratory (MPLab). Her main fields of research are deep sustainability, slow media art, developing art research and presentation methods that could offer different lifestyles - promoting individual self-sustainability, using local culture and traditions (Latvian and Soviet cultural heritage) together with technologies to create a deeper understanding of true balance between urban and country environment and individual and communal lifestyle.