Designing in fragments of memory.

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Spatial designer and media artist

Zoe Zhang

MAT, UC Santa Barbara

Media art, interactive installation

The Dream Remembers

Visitors step into the dream of a machine. Their phones wake it, and every touch leaves a memory light that drifts and slowly fades.

Enter the dream
Media art, generative system

Memory Window

A dim room facing a window onto memory. Words and photographs, written into the fogged glass, become the view outside and slowly fade.

Open the window
Media art, interactive film system

Light Leak

A roll of film in a darkroom. A touch, or a hand held up to the camera, lets light leak in and burn itself into the frame.

Let the light in
Media art, generative AI

Time Corridor

A modern corridor slowly dissolves into fog, stone and caves, then into mountain landscapes drawn from Chinese shanshui painting.

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Portrait of Zoe Zhang

Space is not static. It is experiential, responsive, and tied to memory.

Zoe Zhang is a designer and emerging media artist from Tianjin, China, now pursuing a Master’s in Media Arts & Technology at UC Santa Barbara. Her work moves between spatial design, computation and interactive systems.

She studied Interior Design at SCAD across its Hong Kong, Savannah and Atlanta campuses. Today she combines an architectural sensibility with generative media, exploring memory, perception and time through installations, shaders and AI-assisted workflows.

Photoshop, Illustrator, AutoCAD, Revit, SketchUp, D5 Render, hand rendering, TouchDesigner, p5.js, GLSL, Stable Diffusion, ComfyUI