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Eli Joteva (b.1990) is a Bulgarian intermedia artist, researcher and educator. Joteva 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. 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 a Visualization Research Artist at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications, and an Adjunct Professor at Drexel University. Currently she is a visiting lecturer and advisor at the SCIArc EDGE Program, and teaches XR principles internationally at GEC Academy, houdini.school and with her collective current.cam. Joteva lives and works in Los Angeles.