Lenka Novakova
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Areas of Research and Creative Activity: Scenography and performance design, immersive and interactive environments, expanded and environmental scenography, research-creation, site-responsive and site-specific performance, art and ecology, performance and emerging technologies, projection and moving image, spatial sound, XR and virtual environments, embodied technologies
Winter 2026-27 Courses
- THEA104 - Theatre Concepts
- THEA251 - Introduction to Design I
- THEA453 - Scenic Design for Production
Brief Biography
Dr. Lenka Nováková is an interdisciplinary artist, scenographer, researcher, and educator whose research and creative practice explores relationships between bodies, landscapes, environments, and technologies. Working across theatre, performance design, installation, and media arts, she creates immersive, interactive, and site-responsive environments that bring scenography into dialogue with projection, moving image, spatial sound, and emerging technologies.
Her long-term research-creation project Conversations with Landscapes investigates landscape as a performative and scenographic environment, examining relationships between embodied experience, place, ecology, and technological mediation. Her field-based practice has taken her to diverse geographical and cultural contexts, including Arctic Greenland, where she developed research and creative work through an extended engagement with the landscape and the community of Oqaatsut.
Nováková was a postdoctoral fellow at the Maastricht Academy of Media Design and Technology (MAMDT) in the Netherlands and has held visiting scholar appointments at various institutions, including the University of Victoria, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM), and the University of Maine, where she further developed her research at the intersection of performance, spatial practice, and emerging technologies. Her work has been presented internationally through exhibitions, performances, installations, residencies, and research projects, including work presented in the context of the Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design and Space.
She holds a PhD in Humanities/Fine Arts (Interdisciplinary Research-Creation) and an MFA in Studio Arts from Concordia University. Her teaching spans scenography and performance design, theatre, visual and media arts, emerging technologies, and interdisciplinary studio practice. Across her research, creative practice, and teaching, she is particularly interested in expanding scenography beyond the theatrical stage and exploring how bodies, environments, and technologies can become active participants in the creation of performative space.