Dominika Čupková is an interdisciplinary artist and researcher connecting the dots between AI, art, design, and technology, with experience in PR, marketing, and research. She is 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 through a feminist lens. In 2024–2025, she was a visiting artist researcher at the Interactive Technologies Institute and the Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Lisbon, Portugal. 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. She also co-founded Ladies, Wine & Design Slovakia, an initiative supporting women in the creative fields. Across her projects, she works to bring forth alternative narratives aimed at envisioning and creating a fairer, more inclusive AI.
Dominika Čupková je interdisciplinárna umelkyňa a výskumníčka prepájajúca umelú inteligenciu, umenie, dizajn a technológie, so skúsenosťami v oblasti PR, marketingu a výskumu. Je doktorandkou na Vysokej škole výtvarných umení v Bratislave, kde skúma, čo sa odohráva na priesečníku umelej inteligencie a dizajnu cez optiku feminizmu. V rokoch 2024–2025 pôsobila ako hosťujúca výskumníčka na Interactive Technologies Institute a na Fakulte výtvarných umení Lisabonskej univerzity v Portugalsku. Je zakladateľkou Institute of Machine Unlearning, para-akademickej platformy pre workshopy, ktoré kriticky a hravo skúmajú náš vzťah k technológiám a umelej inteligencii. Spoluzaložila aj iniciatívu Ladies, Wine & Design Slovakia, podporujúcu ženy v kreatívnych odvetviach. Vo svojich projektoch sa usiluje prinášať alternatívne naratívy, ktoré smerujú k predstavovaniu a vytváraniu spravodlivejšej a inkluzívnejšej umelej inteligencie.
Leading workshop at Adaptér Budapest, Hungary 2025 ©Novák Doro
Leading workshop at Adaptér Budapest, Hungary 2025 ©Novák Doro
In discussion with Emese Thamó and Silvia Binda on Design, Time and Agency at Adaptér Budapest, Hungary 2025 ©Novák Doro
In discussion with Emese Thamó and Silvia Binda on Design, Time and Agency at Adaptér Budapest, Hungary 2025 ©Novák Doro
In discussion with Emese Thamó and Silvia Binda on Design, Time and Agency at Adaptér Budapest, Hungary 2025 ©Novák Doro
Leading workshop at National Gallery Prague, Czech republic 2024 ©Kristína Grežďová
Leading workshop at National Gallery Prague, Czech republic 2024 ©Kristína Grežďová
Leading workshop at National Gallery Prague, Czech republic 2024 ©Kristína Grežďová
Leading workshop at National Gallery Prague, Czech republic 2024 ©Kristína Grežďová
Leading workshop at National Gallery Prague, Czech republic 2024 ©Kristína Grežďová
Dominika Čupková in a discussion with Zuzana Husárová and Ľubomír Panák at feminist festival ArtWife 2023. Photo by Nina Rossová.
Screenshot from the project AIxcuse.me that was a generator of useless apologies made during an art residency in 2021.
19th century shallow_fake porn is an excerpt from ongoing research on better visual communication of AI that stemmed from the project AIxDESIGN did at the end of 2023.
In panel discussion with Nadia Piet, Dries Depoorter, Silvia Weidenbach at Assembling Intelligence, HEAD – Genève, Switzerland 2024
In panel discussion with Nadia Piet, Dries Depoorter, Silvia Weidenbach at Assembling Intelligence, HEAD – Genève, Switzerland 2024 © Aline Henchoz
Leading workshop at Assembling Intelligence, HEAD – Genève, Switzerland 2024 ©Fabrizio Arena
Leading workshop at Assembling Intelligence, HEAD – Genève, Switzerland 2024 ©Fabrizio Arena
Leading workshop at Assembling Intelligence, HEAD – Genève, Switzerland 2024 ©Fabrizio Arena
Leading workshop at Assembling Intelligence, HEAD – Genève, Switzerland 2024 ©Fabrizio Arena
Leading workshop at Assembling Intelligence, HEAD – Genève, Switzerland 2024 ©Fabrizio Arena
Leading workshop at Assembling Intelligence, HEAD – Genève, Switzerland 2024