Research: Elitza's project explores how critical listening—mediated through digital, archival, and artistic methods—can foster new models for multispecies cohabitation in the Anthropocene. By combining critical frameworks with digital sound archives and participatory research, Elitza will investigate how environmental archives and emerging technologies reshape ethical, social, and epistemic relations between humans, animals, and machines in changing urban ecosystems.

Bio: Elitza Koeva holds a doctorate from Harvard University with a secondary field in Critical Media Practice and a master’s degree in Media Studies from the University of Tokyo. Her work bridges critical inquiry, creative practice, and public engagement, advancing new frameworks for understanding multispecies relations, technological transformation, and the Anthropocene. Her doctoral dissertation, “Acoustemological Resonances: Brewster’s Archive and the Emergence of Ethical Observational Science,” foregrounded sound as a medium of environmental knowledge and care, leveraging the extensive and overlooked archive of North American ornithologist William Brewster (1851–1919).

Elitza recently completed a postdoctoral fellowship with the Thinking with Plants and Fungi Initiative at the Center for the Study of World Religions, Harvard Divinity School. During the fellowship, Elitza explored the intersubjective relationships among humans, plants, fungi, and nonhuman entities through their sonic enactments and environments. Her project, “Symbiotic Resonances: Sounding More-Than-Human Worlds,” supported by Harvard’s ArtLab, Shelemay Sound Lab, Critical Media Practice program, and Harvard Mellon Urban Initiative, involved developing sound installations that make plant signals beyond human registers audible, engaging with questions about plant and fungal subjectivities.

Elitza’s work has been supported by the Japanese Monbukagakusho Scholarship, Fulbright, Thanks to Scandinavia, ETH research fellowship, Harvard ArtLab, Harvard Mellon Urban Initiative, and Fondation Maison des Sciences de l’Homme, among others.

website: www.elitzakoeva.com