Chtonic Light

Eli Joteva (b.1990) is a Bulgarian intermedia artist and researcher based in LA. With a practice rooted in photography and digital media, she is influenced by contemporary research in the fields of quantum mechanics, neurophysics and machine vision. She holds an MFA from UCLA Design | Media Arts, a BA in Fine Arts from USC Roski and completed The New Normal postgraduate research program at Strelka Institute for Media, Architecture and Design. She has exhibited internationally in venues like Ars Electronica, Fischer Museum, Rijksmuseum Twenthe, Photon Gallery, SciArt Initiative, DC I/O, Culture Hub LA, FakeMeHard, Gogbot, Currents New Media, xCoax, DA Fest, Sariev Contemporary and Queensland Center for Photography. She has been a resident artist at Vermont Studio Center, ACRE, Photo+Sphere and an active member of UCLA Art Sci Center | Lab. She is currently artist in residence at STEAM Imaging III with Ars Electronica & Fraunhofer MEVIS, Professor at houdini.school, VR Gallery Director and Curator at SUPERCOLLIDER and Co-founder of current.cam.