Mashinka Firunts Hakopian is a writer, researcher, and artist born in Yerevan and based in Glendale, CA. She is a Senior Researcher at the Berggruen Institute, and serves as an Associate Editor for Noema Magazine and a Contributing Editor for the Los Angeles Review of Books. Her book, Algorithmic Bias Training: Lectures for Intelligent Machines, is forthcoming in 2021 from X Artists’ Books.
With Avi Alpert and Danny Snelson, she makes up one-third of Research Service, a media collective that pursues performative and practice-based forms of scholarship. Her writing has appeared in Performance Research Journal, the Los Angeles Review of Books, Art in America, Hyperallergic, Georgia, Art Papers, and elsewhere. www.mashinkafirunts.com