Dolma (2024) creates an interactive environment that bridges digital interfaces with physical memory objects, transforming fragmented recollections into an evolving archive. Inspired by the artist’s heritage and upbringing, the work reflects on how identity is continually negotiated through both digital nostalgia and cultural displacement. The Windows XP inspired UI, hanging collages, and symbolic childhood materials become points of entry into how memory is preserved, commodified, and reshaped online. This piece examines how early internet aesthetics and online infrastructure intersect with gender, body politics, and racialized perception.
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Digital America interviewed Zhuoyu Zhang in April of 2025.
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Zhuoyu Zhang (she/they) is a New York–based new media artist working across video installation, interactive media, and play-based storytelling. Their practice explores digital memory, cultural displacement, and identity construction within algorithmic systems. Zhang creates intimate archives drawn from personal experience and broader diasporic narratives. They hold a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and are currently pursuing an MFA in Design and Technology at Parsons School of Design. Their work has been exhibited internationally at film festivals, research institutions, and experimental art venues, including Grand Rising: On Feeling and Interbeing (SAIC Lakeview Gallery, 2021), Quivering Bodies (SAIC Galleries, 2022), Far Above the Starry Sky (Golden Rooster and Hundred Flowers Film Festival, Xiamen, 2022), and “How to show off quantum computing?” (German Aerospace Center, Cologne, 2025).
