Maria Kuptsova

Maria Kuptsova is a transdisciplinary artist, architect, researcher and educator exploring smart technologies, synthetic cognition and new aesthetics in her practice. Her current research questions the role of artificial and natural influences in the creative process, seeking to formulate biomachine design methods based on synthetic forms of intelligence. Maria is a researcher at the Synthetic Landscapes Laboratory at the Institute of Urban Design of the University of Innsbruck. She is the curator of the “Technological Art: Towards a New Intelligence” specialty at ITMO University Art & Science, the head of the “Innovative Design” specialization at ITMOTECH, as well as an artist and curator of the art initiative – Digitocene.Net.