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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.

Courses

Fall 2026

• GA310 Advanced Technologies