Ava Stucci is an artist and technologist working on human agency in machine systems. Her focus is AI safety that scales with the technology itself, embedding legibility, critical engagement and real choice into these systems as they grow.
She is currently building Elm Careers, an AI career advisor for young people. It is a project that turns her long standing questions into concrete design problems, such as how to democratise information at scale while building the fluency to steer it.
It extends a decade of independent creative technology practice through Studio AVA, sustained across Australia, Germany, France and the United States. She investigates the points where people meet technology, and the work of making those systems legible. It manifests as digital and material experiments across cultural programming, governance communication, systems design and performance.
Language, design, brain science and now AI models, her work treats each as a technology we think with, and holds that what stays visible stays open to question.
Research Interests:
- AI Safety, Interpretability & Human Agency
- Human-Centred Systems Design
- Embodied Human-Machine Collaboration
- Extended Mind & Cognitive Technologies
- Cultural Memory & Archival Practice
- Governance of Decentralised & Distributed Networks
Current Roles:
- Studio AVA, an independent creative technology practice (2015–Present)
- Elm Careers, an AI careers platform for high school students (2026–Present)
Education / Training:
- RMIT University, BA Design (Communication Design) (2017–2020)
- Macquarie University, BA Cognitive & Brain Science, second major Philosophy (2024–Present)