I explore new technologies from both sides: researching how artists work with generative AI and mixed reality, and experimenting with these tools myself. I’m drawn to the glitches, the friction and what comes out of them. I am a postdoctoral researcher at the IT University of Copenhagen and affiliated researcher at the Pioneer Centre for AI.

Live performance with generative AI at the Dissonance Workshop
NordiCHI 2026, Vaasa


Since 2024 I have been a researcher and project manager of XTREME, an €8M Horizon Europe project with 14 partners including MUNCH Museum Oslo and the Finnish National Opera, experiencing first hand what happens when art meets new technology.

I believe the most interesting work happens in the friction: between disciplines, between people and machines, between the old and the new. That is also why I keep painting. I know from my own hands what it means to work with a material that pushes back.


Let’s build the next experiment together. I’m open to research collaborations, joint grant applications, workshops and teaching from 2027.

Let’s talk! Justyna

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hi@justyna.dk | +45 22654422

Copenhagen, Denmark

Justyna Starostka hi@justyna.dk

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