An essay about Bulgaria's dead and forgotten websites and the importance of digital preservation.
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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

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.
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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.

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I produced and wrote three songs for the debut EP of Bulgarian art pop artist Danai. → On YouTube → On Spotify

Infinite 3D music visualizer with distorted photogrammetry. Companion piece to my music album "Let The Water Play."
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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 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.

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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.

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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.

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

Semi-ironic love letter to the Bulgarian pop music & internet dance subgenres I grew up with. → Video

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

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

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.

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

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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.

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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.

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An email newsletter about Bulgarian internet culture. → On Substack (in Bulgarian) → On Substack (in English)

The Drum/Drama Machine is a hybrid drum machine and drone generator. → Video demos

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.

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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.

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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.

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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?

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

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

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

→ On Spotify

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.

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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.

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

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

→ On YouTube