Elitza Koeva: Symbiotic Resonances: Sounding More-Than-Human Worlds
As part of her postdoctoral fellowship with the Thinking with Plants and Fungi initiative at the Center for the Study of World Religions, Harvard Divinity School, Elitza Koeva is working on a case study on how trees at the Harvard Divinity School communicate and respond to stimuli like light, vibrations, water, and air pollution as elements of such soundscape.
At ArtLab, she will work in the fabrication workshop with Kat Nakaji, using the laser cutter for creative applications. She will also host a gathering of the Thinking with Plants and Fungi initiative at ArtLab and present this artistic research in May 2025 at Harvard Divinity School.
Elitza Koeva holds a doctoral degree from Harvard Design School. Her research examines the relationship among sound, place, and “cross-species sociality” to conceptualize space, intersubjectivity, and the sensorium within the framework of the human-animal-machine cybernetic triangle.
Her art practice aims to understand how artistic visual, sonic, and spatial practices engender engagement, critical awareness, and participatory responses to digitally mediated environments. She reconciles self and social dynamics at the level of city construction and subjectivity.
https://cswr.hds.harvard.edu/people/elitza-koeva
https://cswr.hds.harvard.edu/research-programming/thinking-plants-fungi