Minka Stoyanova
Assistant Teaching Professor, Becker School of Design/Tech
Scholarly Interests
digital and interactive media; cyborg theory; urban media; augmented reality; internet culture
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Minka Stoyanova draws on cyborg theory to investigate the real and speculative effects of technology in society. Her current research explores the augmentation of urban space through the use of multi-media, interactive technologies and highlights the place-based histories of marginalized communities.
She holds an MFA from The Glasgow School of Art and a PhD in Creative Media from the School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong. Dr. Stoyanova is an alumna of the Fulbright research program and, most recently, was an NSF Computing Innovation Fellow. She has also applied her specific cyborg theory to peer-reviewed papers on social media performance, contemporary art, maker culture, and to a book chapter on cosplay.
A philsopher-maker, Dr. Stoyanova has also presented artwork, and artist talks in a variety of national and international venues including the Xi'an Museum of Contemporary Art (China), Clockenflap Music Festival (Hong Kong), Transmediale (Berlin), and the International Symposium of Electronic Art.Degrees
- Ph.D. in Creative Media, City University Hong Kong, 2019
- M.F.A. in Studio Art Practice, Glasgow School of Art, 2012
- B.S. in Applied Computing Systems, Tulane University, 2010
- B.A. in Studio Photography, University of New Orleans, 2009
Affiliated Department(s)
- Becker School of Design/Tech
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Scholarly and Creative Works
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Sartorial Fandom: Fashion, Beauty Culture, and Identity
Chapter: Wigs, Corsets, Cosmetics, and Instagram: The Prosthetics of CrossplayPublished by University of Michigan Press
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2023
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Discovering Urban Pasts: Activating archival material with site-specific urban media installation
International Symposium on Electronic Art (ISEA)
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Barcelona, Spain
June
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2022
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Smart Materials, Future Cities: Potential for Sustainable Ambient Urban Informatics
Published in Visual Communication Quarterly
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2022
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Vol. 29
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Issue #2
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Top-Rated LABS Abstracts 2020
Published in Leonardo
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2021
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Vol. 54
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Issue #5
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Abstract of: The Art of Cyborgs: A Techno-Social Approach to Contemporary Culture
Published in Leonardo
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2021
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Performing the cyborg self: explicit and implicit examples of body hacking the distributed self
Published in International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media
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2021
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Vol. 17
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Issue #2
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Performing Hypo-Linguistics
Published in Technoetic Arts
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2018
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Vol. 16
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Issue #1
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Reading makers: Locating Criticality in DIY and “Maker” Approaches
Published in Digital Culture & Society
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2017
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Vol. 3
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Issue #1
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CASH RULES EVERYTHING AROUND ME: Reading the Recuperation of Hip-hop through Rancière's Political Aesthetics and Attali's Distinguishing of Signal and Noise
Published in Usage guidelines
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2016
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How to Catch a Cloud
Proceedings of the 2015 ACM SIGCHI Conference on Creativity and Cognition●
2015
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Awards & Grants
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Activating Urban Space through Interactive and Augmented Reality Interfaces
National Science Foundation, Computing Research Association, Computing Innovation Fellow
Jan. 1, 2021 - Dec. 31, 2022
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Faculty Development Award
Clark University
May. 31, 2024
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