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.
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Eli Joteva (b.1990) is a Bulgarian 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 relationship to imaging technologies of the past and future.
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. 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. Most recently she was as a Visualization Research Artist at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications, and an Adjunct Professor at Drexel University. Currently she is a visiting lecturer at the SciArc EDGE Program, and teaches XR principles internationally at houdini.school and with her collective current.cam.