Dirk Vis (1981) writes fiction, essays, scripts, and poetry, in Dutch and English. Vis spends his working time between the Netherlands and London. His books have been published in Dutch and English: the novel Paren of de kunst van de slaapkamer (Atlas Contact, 2022), the novella Het reality-essay (De Gids, 2017), and the (anti-)manual for artistic research Research for People Who (Think They) Would Rather Create (Onomatopee, 2021). Vis presented animations, chapbooks, performances and websites with his texts and directed several video works based on his scripts. His work has been translated to German and Korean. He is contributing editor of Dutch literary magazine De Gids (The Guide) and co-founder of De Internet Gids. Vis is art theory, research and writing lecturer at the Willem de Kooning Academy in Rotterdam and the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague, besides regularly guest lecturing at various international universities (Norwich University, The University of Chicago, CalArts, Merz Akademie Stuttgart, Leiden University, Universität der Künste Berlin, Vilnius Academy of Arts a.o.).