Helena Linder Miñambres

Working at NAVET Centre for Research in Art, Technology and Design at KTH I primarily support students from NAVET's partner institutions (KTH, KMH, SKH, KKH, Konstfack) in organizing activities. This initiative aims to foster collaboration, resource sharing, and community building among students from diverse backgrounds.

I graduated from the MSc in Interactive Media Technology at KTH, where my primary focus was on sound, acoustics and physical prototyping. During my master's thesis I started my project Sirenology, where I create an acoustic synthesizer inspired by the mechanisms and historical context of sirens as tools in 19th–century acoustics labs. This project is ongoing and has taken the shape of workshops, performances and a collection of recordings. Here you can read my master's thesis, which documents experiences of the first Acoustic Synthesis workshop and a theoretical framwework for the work (as presented in January 2025). See more of my work on my homepage.

My research and artistic practice is centered around musical instruments and photography. Having a background in physics, I find beauty in historical scientific explorations of sound and light. Here is a list topics that I'm excited to work with: musical instrument design, physical computing, media archaeology, history of science, epistemology, STS, new materialism, low tech, and the post-digital.

In Stockholm, I am a member of Fylkingen, Konstmusiksystrar, and Elektronmusikstudion.