Participatory Workshop
⊹ Workshop Facilitators: Dominika Čupková & Štefánia Ďuricová
⊹ When? March 12, 2026, 5 p.m.
⊹ Where? tranzit.sk, Beskydská 12, Bratislava
⊹ Capacity: Ideally 8 and a maximum of 12 people
⊹ Duration: 3 hours
⟢ BYOC: Bring your own conspiracy is a participatory workshop where conspiracies are not only treated as disinformation, but also as mirrors of collective fear, folklore, and belief systems. Conspiracies travel like rumours, mutate like myths, and reveal the hidden anxieties of the society we live in. BYOC workshop invites you to look at conspiracies as cultural signals (stories that expose what we fear and what we desire), rather than exploring notions of truth and falsehood. We will explore how machines amplify all of these concepts.
. ݁˖ . ݁ Instead of debunking conspiracies, what if we looked at them as cultural myths, signals of our anxieties, and raw material for imagining otherwise? . ݁₊ ⊹ ݁
We will neither prove nor disprove the conspiracies; during this workshop, we will remix, pass them around, and transform them. You are invited to bring one conspiracy (from your uncle’s kitchen table, late-night YouTube feed, medieval witch rumour, or your hunch about the neighbour’s dog). Together, we’ll collect them into a living dataset and re-narrate them through multiple formats.
Conspiracies will mutate as they travel through groups, revealing how stories bend with each retelling and how machines detect and amplify collective fears or censor our assumptions. The final artefacts become a messy archive of our shared paranoia and playful myth-making.
🐸 Bring your own conspiracy. Bonus points if you lowkey believe it.
⟢ The Institute of Machine Unlearning is a critical and poetic para-academic platform for examining how we relate to AI, where participants explore alternative ways of sensing, imagining, and interfering with intelligent systems: through workshops, rituals, collective unlearning, feral pedagogy & serious play.
⟢ Dominika Čupková is an interdisciplinary artist and researcher based in Lisbon, Portugal. In her practice she connects the dots between AI, art, design, and technology, with experience in PR, marketing, and research. She is the founder of the Institute of Machine Unlearning and is currently finishing her PhD at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava.
⟢ Štefánia Ďuricová is a curator and art historian based in Bergen, Norway, currently finishing her PhD at the University of St Andrews. Her research focuses on art, politics, and the use of artistic practices that enable identity formation.
The number of places is limited. Registration via email at studyroom.tranzit@gmail.com
by March 10, 2026
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This event is organized as a part of the Study Room - Platform for Mutual Learning a project initiated by Judit Angel, Viktoria Gajdošová, and Vivien Kvasnicová.
ERSTE Foundation is main partner of tranzit.
Media partners: Artalk.info, Flash Art CZ & SK, Kapitál, GoOut.net