Name
Form
Year
The Confiscation of Digital Memory
writing
2025
An essay about Bulgaria's dead and forgotten websites and the importance of digital preservation.
→ Are.na Editorial
The Confiscation of Internet Memory
eink.cam
machine
2025
eink.cam is an experimental digital camera with a color eInk display, a tool to help you engage with the world around you in a slower, more mindful way. I started eink.cam as my Computer Science thesis at Yale, and I'm now expanding it into a real product. → eink.cam
eink.cam
Atlantis
lecture
2024
A performance lecture about the deletion & remembrance of websites, about cyber nations and the lost internet of Yugoslavia. The sound and visuals for the talk were driven by a custom website connected to a MIDI controller, all projected as a floating orb on & above me.

For Naive Yearly at the Museum of Architecture and Design in Ljubljana, Slovenia.
→ Naive Yearly
Pagasa
music
2025

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.

→ More
A room full of people staring at a projection on the ceiling
Danai
music
2024
I produced and wrote three songs for the debut EP of Bulgarian art pop artist Danai. → On YouTube → On Spotify
Danai EP
Wet Area
visual
2024
Infinite 3D music visualizer with distorted photogrammetry. Companion piece to my music album "Let The Water Play."
→ On YouTube
Yugoslavia's Digital Twin
writing
2023
What happens when a country's internet domain outlives the nation? An article on the history of .yu, the domain name for Yugoslavia, which outlived the country by two decades. The domain's fascinating afterlife and tragic death stir up questions about the historical significance and preservation of the internet that feel especially relevant today. → Read in Issue 9 of the The Dial
A stylized computer window giving an error message
Experimental Karaoke Balkanton
music
2023

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.

→ Video
A desktop screenshot showing the words Experimental Karaoke Balkanton written in Bulgarian
Hand-me-down Memories
machine
2023

A 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.

→ Video
Nu Pogodi on a CRT TV
DAY Artists' Book
writing
2023

A 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.

DAY Artists Book
Nasam-natam
machine
2023

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

Nasam-natam
100% 🇧🇬 BG ✨ NIGHTCORE ✨ DJ MIX
music
2023
Semi-ironic love letter to the Bulgarian pop music & internet dance subgenres I grew up with. → Video
Kaloyan pointing at the camera with a green screen background of Kaufland from the lost GTA San Andreas mod GTA Sofia
12 Things to Do with Your Essay After You Turn It In
writing
2023

A meditation on publishing and purpose in educational institutions. 20-page single-color risograph zine. Words by me, design by Kevin.

Spread of 12 Things to do With Your Essay After You Turn It In
Let the Water Play
music
2023
Concept album & site-specific installation for the toilet of KO-OP gallery in Sofia, Bulgaria.

The music in the album consists of remixes of Bulgarian music that's unavailable on streaming platforms, at danger of becoming lost media. The toilet turns into a fragile archive – where visitors get to experience the music, but mixed with the sound of their own bodily functions. This tension is emphasized by contact microphones on the toilet and sink, which stop the music once they detect a sound, turning the whole space into a performable instrument. → More info → On Bandcamp → On YouTube
A photo of a toilet covered in pink light
Fish Talking About Music Distribution
visual
2023

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.na
GIF slideshow of postcards from the set 'Fish Talking About Music Distribution'
System Symphony
music
2022

A series of four laptop performances using a custom SuperCollider synth controlled by the active processes on your computer. Collaboration with Darwin.

→ On YouTube
System Symphony
Every Technical Problem Has a Technical Solution
visual
2022

Music 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 YouTube
Every Technical Problem Has a Technical Solution Video
SHIFT
music
2022

Every 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 → Spotify
SHIFT Album Cover
Gotin Link
writing
2022
An email newsletter about Bulgarian internet culture. → On Substack (in Bulgarian) → On Substack (in English)
Gotin Link
Drum/Drama Machine
machine
2021
The Drum/Drama Machine is a hybrid drum machine and drone generator. → Video demos
Drum/Drama Machine
Ramonia
music
2020

Ramonia 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 → Spotify
Ramonia
Missed Out on Oblivion
visual
2021

Music 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 YouTube
Missed Out on Oblivion
Sample Pack Workshop
music
2021

Workshop 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 pack
Sample Pack Workshop Poster by chia.design
Kosmos?
visual
2021

Kosmos? 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?

Kosmos
Reimagining the Bulgarian State Maturity Exam
writing
2019

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 Scholar
Reimagining the Bulgarian State Maturity Exam
The 5 o'Clock
machine
2021

An electro-acoustic alarm clock that rings at the end of the workday.

→ Video demo
The 5 O'Clock
Bulgarian Disco Highlights
music
2019

A Spotify playlist and ongoing research project exploring forgotten Bulgarian disco songs from the extensive back catalog of the state label Balkanton.

→ On Spotify
Bulgarian Disco Highlights
Art Mirror
machine
2021

An 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 demo
Art Mirror
Gospojata
machine
2018

A 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.

Soapbox
Bird and Box
visual
2014

I learned Cinema 4D when I was 13 because I really wanted to make Minecraft animations. This was my masterpiece.

→ On YouTube
Bird and Box
Lego Star Wars Christmas
visual
2011

I made this stop-motion animation when I was 11 and won a massive Star Wars ship from an official Lego contest.

→ On YouTube
Lego Star Wars