Eli Joteva is a Bulgarian interdisciplinary artist & educator based in Los Angeles. With a practice rooted in photography and digital media, her work traces the translations between material and virtual planes in an effort to re-imagine the experiences of both human and other-than-human bodies. Influenced by contemporary research in the fields of quantum mechanics, neurophysics and machine vision, she investigates organic and computational memory systems in relationship to imaging technologies of the past and future.
Her skills in 3D graphics, Houdini, 3D scanning techniques, procedural simulations, GenAI and Adobe Creative Suite is a valuable addition to our team.
Wee plan to work together in creating some of the pother worldly visuals for “Love Eternal” (inspired by the Tibetan Book of the Dead, which she has also studied closely), the hallucinatory visuals of “Ecstasy” as well as some of our other projects.
Joteva holds a BA from USC Roski, an MFA from UCLA Design Media Arts and completed The New Normal postgraduate research program at Strelka Institute for Media, Architecture, and Design.
Joteva has exhibited internationally across Europe, the US, and Australasia, including at Ars Electronica, Linz; Rijksmuseum Twenthe, Enschede; Noor Riyadh, Riyadh; and the Queensland Center for Photography, Newstead. She has been a resident artist at STEAM Imaging III with Ars Electronica & Fraunhofer MEVIS, Vermont Studio Center, ACRE, and Photo+Sphere, and a member of UCLA Art Sci Center | Lab. Her work has been included in the DA Fest, xCoax, CultureHub LA, Currents New Media, SciArt Initiative, ComeAlive, Fischer Museum, and GOGBOT amongst others.
Here are some of her art works: