PAGASA, meaning "hope" in Filipino, is a simulated atmosphere of a country's climate in collapse. With Chia, a generative performance that mixed typhoon and climate imagery, data, and overlays along with scraped videos of streets and towns in the aftermath of natural disasters.
At Root Division, San Francisco.
A 2-hour desktop performance exploring experimental music from the back catalog of the former state-owned label of Bulgaria, Balkanton, from 1973-1992. Through screen recordings of Google searches, conversations with AI chatbots and music database crawls, I try to understand the place of these obscure records in the collective consciousness of the internet. Made for the group exhibit OBRAZCOV DOM / EXEMPLARY HOME in Sofia, BG.
→ VideoA generative art installation consisting of a CRT TV and a video player that randomly scrubs through a compilation of Nu Pogodi episodes. Underneath the video are comments from friends, recounting their memories of watching the show when they were little. In the early 2000s, across many ex-Eastern Bloc countries, Soviet cartoons had been completely replaced by Disney in mainstream media. However, shows like Nu Pogodi somehow remained a part of our childhood, passed down on bootleg DVDs from our parents. Collaboration with Aylin.
→ VideoA collection of art, visual, and experimental works from Yale undergraduate designers and artists, featuring 74 works from 22 artists. Made with friends from Design at Yale.
Nasam-natam (From Bulgarian - "To and fro") is a simulated family ecosystem, a smartphone surrounded by wildflowers. The phone runs a modded version of Viber, the de facto family group chat app in many Eastern European countries. On the app, "Mama" sends a landscape photo from Bulgaria every 4 seconds. installation - smartphone, modded Viber, family photos, wildflowers, nature field recordings Part of ART START 2023
A meditation on publishing and purpose in educational institutions. 20-page single-color risograph zine. Words by me, design by Kevin.
Postcard set for Let The Water Play. Featuring quotes that inspired the installation and my views on music as a whole. Designed & printed by Yana. On sale at The Kopy Shop.
→ On Are.naA series of four laptop performances using a custom SuperCollider synth controlled by the active processes on your computer. Collaboration with Darwin.
→ On YouTubeMusic video for Every Technical Problem Has a Technical Solution, the soundtrack I created for the experimental dance performance SHIFT. Created by analyzing a recording of the dancers using the pose estimation model YOLOv7.
→ On YouTubeEvery Technical Problem Has a Technical Solution is the soundtrack for the experimental dance performance SHIFT - a story about the evolution of humanity and the search for eternal life. Inspired by cybernetics, Arca and 90s Bulgarian chalga.
→ Bandcamp → SpotifyRamonia is a 12-track plunderphonics concept album about Bulgaria, internet culture, nostalgia, and the remnants of socialism. Featured in The Yale Herald, Capital, and the Bulgarian Music Association.
→ Bandcamp → SpotifyMusic video from my album Ramonia. Created using 400 photographs from the Bulgarian Visual Archive. A blink-of-an-eye journey through the twentieth century.
→ On YouTubeWorkshop for the Yale Open Music Initiative (OMI). Taught students the basics of recording and editing audio, and we created a collaborative royalty-free sample pack.
→ Download the packKosmos? is a generative art project exploring the legacy of the legendary Bulgarian popular science magazine.
Exhibited at KO-OP Sofia as a part of NO ARTIST CAN PREDICT THE FUTURE?
Research published in the Bulgarian Journal of Science & Education Policy. Discusses the issues with the Bulgarian high school exit exam and proposes ways to make it better.
→ On Google ScholarAn electro-acoustic alarm clock that rings at the end of the workday.
→ Video demoA Spotify playlist and ongoing research project exploring forgotten Bulgarian disco songs from the extensive back catalog of the state label Balkanton.
→ On SpotifyAn interactive installation that offers a novel way to discover art by matching a user's pose to a portrait from the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
→ Video demoA soapbox car I built with Tani, Georgi & Stoil. We won first place at Red Bull Soapbox Sofia 2018. We were the youngest competitors and still in school, so we themed our car after a classroom desk.
I learned Cinema 4D when I was 13 because I really wanted to make Minecraft animations. This was my masterpiece.
→ On YouTubeI made this stop-motion animation when I was 11 and won a massive Star Wars ship from an official Lego contest.
→ On YouTube