“I try to tell a story about where Balkan fury meets Mediterranean warmth. I am sure that tradition can push stronger than anything the limits of what technology can do for us. And working on understanding my own traditions allows me to tell that story with greater truth.” Iskra Velitchkova

Iskra Velitchkova is a Bulgarian artist currently based in Madrid. After an award-winning career in data visualization and information design, Velitchkova oriented her career toward the merging of art and science through new communication mechanisms made possible by generative and AI computer mechanisms. She freely uses a variety of tools and methods from the arts and sciences in a post-disciplinary creative process to create evocative abstract artworks. Just as Yves Klein used chemistry to create a new color, so Velitchkova seeks to express herself more fully through digital technology.

Regarding her piece, Prayers, Velitchkova remarks,