Developing responsive systems and algorithmic environments that evolve in real time. Exploring code, interaction, and experimentation as core elements of contemporary artistic practice.
Emerging Technologies
Petko Tanchev uses generativity to express complexity, unpredictability, and transformation. His practice bridges artistic intuition with system-based design, exploring how emerging technologies can shape new forms of aesthetic experience. By integrating interactive components, AI, and real-time media, he creates works that respond adaptively to space, performers, and audiences, expanding the possibilities of immersive art.
Creative Programming
Digital Art Practice
Petko Tanchev explores the expressive potential of code through interactive and generative systems. His approach merges computational processes with design, creating dynamic environments that respond to real-time data and human presence. His works range from responsive installations and algorithmic compositions to audio-visual performances and stage technologies, often developed using software platforms like TouchDesigner or custom-built tools. Through this practice, he investigates how technology can become an active collaborator in shaping perception, narrative, and immersive experience.
Body Interactivity Lab - project by UCLA REMAP, University of California, USA, and CheLA, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2018
Living Systems
Driven by an interest in the interplay between visual programming and real-time performance, Tanchev examine how digital media can reshape spatial experience and activate environmental settings. Many of his projects function as living systems — evolving over time and shaped by their context variables — offering audiences immediate and unique encounters.
Prototyping & Research
Tanchev treats his studio as a hybrid lab — a space for continuous prototyping, testing, and speculative creation. Experiments with motion tracking, sensor feedback, and system-based logic give rise to evolving visual structures that embrace unpredictability, transformation, and audience engagement. This developmental layer also informs his teaching, mentoring, and collaborative research.
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