Maria Kuptsova is a meta-artist, research practitioner and educator in the fields of transdiciplinary art and architecture. Her current research questions the role of artificial and natural intelligence within the design process, aiming to formulate bio-machinic design techniques, as well as to articulate a cyborganic aesthetical language driven by synthetic forms of cognition.

Maria is a research associate at the Synthetic Landscape Lab, Institute of Urban Design, University of Innsbruck. She is a curator of “Technological Art: Towards a New Intelligence '' Major at the Art&Science at ITMO University, as well as artist and curator at art initiative –Digitocene.Net.