Mary
Zhang

 
is a creative technologist based in Los Angeles. Her expanded practice involves simple robotics, olfactive interactions, creative coding, and hardware prototyping.

Her work seeks to investigate the implications of ever-evolving technology as tools, and how our labors and ecologies shift as consequence.


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Are we going surfing tomorrow?



Timeline 
September 2022 - October 2022

Roles + Fields
Unity prototyping
Participant-collaboration

Methods
Unity, ethnographic field research



This project researches “real” places through the interface. What alternate narratives are triggered and shared, and what new places and populations are created as a result?

This is an interactive story about surfing in Los Angeles.

Using Unity, this work captures the emotional waiting room of getting out to the waves with first person surfing footage paired with conversations from local surf group forums.