Eli Joteva

Eli Joteva (b.1990) is a Bulgarian intermedia artist, researcher, and educator. Joteva’s practice investigates the invisible forces outside human perception. In her research process, she collaborates directly with scientists and engineers working in the fields of medical imaging, neurophysics, and artificial intelligence and uses alternative imaging tools like MRI, LIDAR, EEG, satellite data, and biofeedback sensors.

Biogram Blueprints is a body of work that explores the digitization of organic structures through the invisible spectrum of light. At its core, the production process uses measurement techniques from the two eras and two ends just outside the visible spectrum of light. The 3D capturing involves LIDAR (infrared depth laser scanning) technology to calculate data points of spatial information about the physical dimensions of living plants. The printing process explores the other end of the invisible light spectrum (ultraviolet light) through the cyanotype, the oldest photographic printing method. Cyanotype. All prints are partially developed so that sections of each image remain sensitive to UV light and thus slowly change in response to the precipitation and light in their environment. Flattening the 3D scans into dynamic topographic maps, the project deciphers a dimensional translation of material and digital memory systems while shedding light on the link between the virtual and the actual, the visible and invisible.

What lies within the bounds of being? IntraBeing explores the boundaries of imaging the human body to imagine a limitless and intra-active sense of being. Eli Joteva worked remotely with researchers at Fraunhofer MEVIS to develop the work, exploring the capacities of medical imaging and simulation techniques to locate the enigmatic spaces that emerge at the limits of resolution and computation. In this series, you can see Joteva’s ovaries, heart and feet using these techniques.

Another feature in this work is the ability to tap your phone in the corner of the frame to launch an AR interactive. No app necessary, you will be able to view, move and adapt the rendering behind each artwork visibly in front of you!