Biography

Marussiac (Tomáš Marušiak) is a Slovak new media artist, researcher and university educator. Born in Košice on 21 April 1980, he graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava in 2004, where he studied in the Open Studio led by Professor Rudolf Sikora. From 2005 to 2012, he taught as an Assistant Professor in the Studio of New Media at the Department of Fine Arts and Intermedia, Faculty of Arts, Technical University of Košice. In 2004–2005, he helped establish Slovakia’s first university studio dedicated to new media art.

His artistic practice and research encompass 3D computer art, AI art, artificial aesthetics, neuroaesthetics and the emerging relationship between aesthetic agency and artificial intelligence. He has initiated numerous international projects in art and design, and his work has been exhibited and published internationally. Since 2004, he has served as Director of the Cultcode Institute of Visual Arts.

He is currently a PhD researcher at Masaryk University in Brno. In June 2026, he was a Visiting Researcher in the Department of Digital Humanities at King’s College London, where he further developed his research into AI art, artificial aesthetics, functional indicators of consciousness in AI and future human–AI aesthetic processes.