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Eli Joteva 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 has 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 STEAM Imaging III with Ars Electronica & Fraunhofer MEVIS, Vermont Studio Center, ACRE, Photo+Sphere and a member of UCLA Art Sci Center | Lab. She currently teaches classes at houdini.school and leads workshops with her collective current.cam.