Mashinka Firunts Hakopian is an Armenian writer, artist, and researcher born in Yerevan and residing in Glendale, CA. She is an Associate Professor in Technology and Social Justice at ArtCenter College of Design and a 2021 Visiting Mellon Professor of the Practice at Occidental College. She is a 2024 Eyebeam Democracy Machine Fellow. She is the author of The Institute for Other Intelligences (X Artists’ Books, 2022). With Meldia Yesayan, she is the co-curator of What Models Make Worlds: Critical Imaginaries of AI at Ford Foundation Gallery and Encoding Futures at OXY ARTS. Her writing and commentary have appeared in AI & Society, Los Angeles Review of Books, Performance Research Journal, Social Text Online, Los Angeles Times, and elsewhere. Her performances and projects have been presented or are forthcoming at the Centre Pompidou, the New Museum, REDCAT, the Music Center, the Institute for Contemporary Art in Philadelphia, and elsewhere. She is a contributing editor at ART PAPERS, where she guest edited the spring 2023 special issue on AI with Sarah Higgins. Her work foregrounds ancestral intelligences and imaginaries of liberation in Artsakh, Palestine, and beyond.