Dominika Čupková is an interdisciplinary artist and researcher connecting the dots between AI, art, design, and technology through feminist lens. She is the founder of the Institute of Machine Unlearning, a para-academic platform for workshops that critically and playfully reimagine our relations with technology and AI, and a doctoral student at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava, where she explores what happens at the intersection of AI and design.
my body is a machine that turns.mp4
viddy last updated: 28 May 2026 (freshly baked)
🎪 multivitamin artist connecting the dots between AI, art, design and tech
🍄 Founder of the Institute of Machine Unlearning - a para-academic performative infrastructure for collective unlearning, feral pedagogy & serious play.
🎓 PhD candidate trying to figure out how AI and design intersect and what can we do about it from more nuanced & feminist perspectives at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bratislava
🐛 former comms lead for AIxDESIGN - a global community and collaboratory shaping participatory approaches and alternative narratives of AI
👯♀️ co-founder & leader of Ladies, Wine & Design Slovakia aiming to establish a conversation between the women in the creative community in Slovakia
👸🏻 pr & marketing contessa, who’s done the work & strategies for East Slovak Gallery, redefined what it means to be an art institution in the digital age
In discussion with Zuzana Husárová and Lubomir Panák at Artwife festival 2023 presenting AIxcuse.me project
LWD Slovakia gallery meetup
**🦕 writing about things** and whatnot for more than a decade at my own platform ****thedominica.sk (Slovak only)
🪐 in my free time interested in exploring sound narratives, the beauty and ugliness of everyday (things), protopias, uncomfortable conversations, boredom, arthouse cinema, and people doing things with passion. taking pictures of literally everything, reading exhaustively, and dreaming accordingly. but after all, just a fortuitous constellation of atoms that have chosen to resist entropy for a few moments within cosmic eternity
dominika cupkova portfolio 2025.pdf
Workshop, UNCURATED: On Screenshots as Personal Archaelogy w/ Kamil Zahorjan, Mill Makers in Little Lisbon, Portugal
Workshop, CAPTCHURED: Training Sets for Refusal, Mil Convention 2026, Lisbon, Portugal
Workshop, CAPTCHURED: Training Sets for Refusal, Parallel Society Festival 2026, Lisbon, Portugal
Workshop BYOC: Bring Your Own Conspiracy w/ Štefánia Ďuricová, Tranzit.sk, Bratislava, Slovakia
Three Sad Tigers Eat Cereal at the Server Farm Exhibition at Mais uno +1 project space in Picoas, Lisbon, Portugal
Workshop, BYOC: Bring Your Own Conspiracy for Palácio das Belas Artes Lisboa, Mill Makers in Little Lisbon, Portugal
Workshop, BYOC: Bring Your Own Conspiracy w/ Štefánia Ďuricová, Tranzit.sk, Bratislava, Slovakia
Exhibition, Three Sad Tigers Eat Cereal at the Server Farm by Institute of Machine Unlearning, mais uno +1 project space, Lisbon, Portugal
Panel, Techno Mirage: Creative AI Futures w/ Joaquina Salgado, Ziv Epstein, Jazsalyn moderated by Amy Xiaofan Jiang and Julienne Devita, UAAD x Parsons School of Design, online
Workshop, Remixing Better Images of AI, Datafest 2025, Tbilisi, Georgia
Talk, On Slow AI, Datafest 2025, Tbilisi, Georgia
Workshop, Lisbon AI Week 2025: CAPTCHURED / Training Sets for Refusal*,* Public Experiments #1, Institute of Machine Unlearning, Wellread bookstore, Lisbon, Portugal
On Slow AI, Datafest 2025, Tbilisi, Georgia
On Slow AI, Datafest 2025, Tbilisi, Georgia
Workshop, CAPTCHURED: Training Sets for Refusal*,* Public Experiments #1, Institute of Machine Unlearning, mais uno +1 project space, Lisbon, Portugal
Guest lecture, CAPTCHURED: Training Sets for Refusal, Elisava school of design and engineering, Barcelona, Spain
Workshop, Remixing Better Images of AI, Critical Collage Club #1, Institute of Machine Unlearning, Levo studio, Lisbon, Portugal