Amanda M. Stojanov
Assistant Professor, Digital Media, Monmouth University
M.F.A. Design Media Arts, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
B.F.A. in Graphic Design, Monmouth University
Co-Principal Investigator, IDM Research Lab
Amanda Stojanov is a media artist who investigates how innovations in communication technologies affect perceptions of identity, agency, and visibility, emphasizing concepts of embodiment and the “historically constituted body” within a networked-society. Her work has been shown nationally and internationally in renowned venues such as the Reese Bullen Gallery, ISEA, UC Santa Cruz, Saatchi Art’s The Other Art Fair, UCLA’s New Wight Gallery, the Ammerman Center for Arts and Technology at Connecticut College, the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, Ars Electronica, and the New Museum (online exhibition). Her work has been featured in publications like Artillery magazine, The New York Times, and The Associated Press. She earned her MFA from UCLA and currently serves as an assistant professor at Monmouth University.
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Through installations and the use of world-building techniques, Amanda investigates how innovations in communication technologies affect perceptions of identity, agency, and visibility, with an emphasis on concepts of embodiment and the “historically constituted body” within a networked-society. Areas of expertise are new media, multi-media installations, design, interactivity, creative coding, and networked media. Research interests are physical computing, game-theory, mixed reality, and computer graphics within the context of new media art, critical theory, and society.
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2024 “Liminal bodies and space” Two-Person Show, Cal Poly Humboldt, University, Reese Bullen Gallery, Amanda Stojanov and Linh Dao.Nov-Dec 2024. Opening Date Nov. 7, 2024
2024 “A Womxn Destroyed” in the Online Exhibit, Styly Room, ISEA, (International Symposium on Electronic Arts), Everywhen, https://isea2024.isea-international.org/a-womxn-destroyed/
2024 “A Womxn Destroyed” in Women Heavy at Gardenship Arts, Kearny, NJ Curated by Donna Kessinger
2024 “Transitional Threads”, in collaboration with Linh Dao, Pittsburgh Seen: Rage Against the Machine: Part 1, Curated by Tara Fay
2023 EcoFemAR in Now You Don’t Exhibit at ChaShaMa Matawan
2022 “I am real” in Independent & Image Art Space, Chongqing, China
2021 Feb-April “I am real, 2020” UUU (Unbounded Unleashed Unforgiving: Reconsidering Cyberfmeinism in 2021) virtual exhibition made in collaboration with newart.city, CAA Visual, and New Media Caucus.
2020 VoidLab in the “Cyberfeminism Index”, Curated by Mindy Seu. Commissioned by Rhizome and co-presented with with New Museum’s First Look. Website.
2020 Oct “The Climate Shelter” and “Hurricane” at the Jersey Shore Arts Center. Permanent Installation.
2020 Oct Glitch Art Festival 2020 Participant, “Pink-noise.info, I am real” Zagreb, Croatia