Sven Vabar (b. 1977) has a bachelor’s (2005) and master’s degree (2007) in semiotics and cultural studies from the University of Tartu. He is currently a doctoral student of the Institute of Art History and Visual Culture at the Estonian Academy of Arts. His thesis deals with any-spaces-whatever (a concept by Gilles Deleuze) in Estonian experimental art and literature in 2000s. He works at the University of Tartu as a managing editor of the Estonian Writers’ Online Dictionary. Sven Vabar has edited the collections of articles on Mehis Heinsaar (2011) and by Estonian scholars of science fiction (2013), and also the multi-author collection of experimental prose Mitte-Tartu (‘Non-Tartu’, 2012). Vabar has published two prose collections Ribadeks tõmmatud linn. Jutud vms 2001-2014 (‘Shredded City. Stories from 2001-2014’, 2023) and 2013-2024 (2025, under the pseudonym Kivivalgel). He organised the series of sound art events in Tartu called Topofon (from 2010-2017)