Joteva Studio is a Los Angeles-based media art studio creating work at the intersection of art, science and technology. It is led by Eli Joteva, whose art practice interrogates the relationship between physical and virtual spaces by revealing invisible forces, vibrations, and patterns that exist outside of human perception. The studio collaborates directly with scientists and engineers working in the fields of medical imaging, neurophysics, and artificial intelligence and uses data-driven simulations, alternative imaging tools (like MRI, LIDAR, EEG, satellite data, environmental and biofeedback sensors) to produce image series, immersive installations and augmented reality projects that aim to expand the viewer’s imagination to include other-than-human perspectives of life.
Eli Joteva (b.1990) is a Bulgarian-American intermedia artist, researcher and educator. 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 relation to imaging technologies of the past and future.
Joteva holds a BA from USC Roski, an MFA from UCLA, and completed The New Normal postgraduate research program at Strelka Institute for Media, Architecture, and Design. She has exhibited internationally across Europe, the US, Asia, the Middle East and Australasia including at Ars Electronica, Linz; Noor Riyadh, Riyadh; Rijksmuseum Twenthe, Enschede; Fosun Foundation, Shanghai, and the Queensland Centre for Photography, Newstead. She has been a resident artist at STEAM Imaging III with Ars Electronica & Fraunhofer MEVIS, Vermont Studio Centre, ACRE, and a member of UCLA Art Sci Centre | Lab. Her work has been included in DA Fest, xCoax, Currents New Media, SciArt Initiative, ComeAlive, and GOGBOT, amongst others. Most recently she was a Visualization Research Artist at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications. Currently she is a an adjunct professor at UCI, Laguna College of Art & Design and Pepperdine University in Los Angeles.
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