Nikola Vladislavov Stoyanov is a visual artist and machine philosopher hailing from Varna, Bulgaria. His work aims to traverse the boundary between research-based and speculative practices. Area of interest include the intersection of infrastructure, technological apparatus, art, and everyday life, intertwining the humanities with scientific methodologies. His practice employs multi-linear approaches to creative and collaborative endeavors. Stoyanov has a background as a translator and photographer spanning many years and has received his education in philosophy and the history of technology in the United Kingdom.
Contact me via:email → av0id.biz@gmail.cominstagram → @avoid.ndfacebook → av0id.nd.youtube → @newdegeneration
exhibitions ↓
2023 - Nature Morte
2022 - Latent Space
2022 - Re:Process
2021 - I-Ixa
2021 - In:Process
2019 - Music for a New Night Life
collaborations ↓
2024 - Postcards and Contraband
2023 - Postcards and Contraband
2023 - Exemplary Home
2023 - Death Valley
2022 - Humor is the politeness of despair
2022 - Grey Zone/Dispositive
2022 - The Big MONUMENT of the Small Past
2021 - Allegorical Impulse
texts and talks ↓
2024 - On the trail of a trivial insight
discussion accompanying the exhibition Postcards and Contraband, Charta Gallery 21 April 2024 with the participation of Raina Markova and Hristo Kaloyanov
2024 - On the Border of Life
Article in “BORDERS” Simulacrum Magazine, Amsterdam
2023 - Paranoid Semiotics
Talk given at "The Evident" conference, hosted by Culture Center "St. Kliment Ohridski" University
2023 - Theoretical fictions and para-literature
Talk given at "Genres in Paraliterature" conference, hosted by Literature Theory departments of "St. Kliment Ohridski" University and Bulgarian Science Association
2023 - Places of Ecological History
In "Journal for Social Vision", Sofia
2022 - The Ontological Status of Generative Art and its Meaning
Article in "Дерзай" magazine
2021 - Killing the love
Bulgarian translation for "Нова Асоциална Поезия"
2021 - Accelarationism Today
Talk given at book presentation for Mark Fisher's "Capitalist Realism" hosted by "KOI" books publishing
2021 - Knots
Bulgarian translation for "Нова Социална Поезия"
2021 - What I Believe
Bulgarian translation for New Social Poetry
2020 - Xenofeminist Manifesto
Bulgarian translation for Laboria Cubonics Collective