Hey there,

I’m an artist, multidisciplinary designer, and researcher based in New York. I use technology to create sensory-rich encounters, especially through taste and smell. Often using food and history as lenses, my practice explores how individual and collective lives are intrinsically varied yet deeply connected, across space and time.

My work is largely research-driven. Previously, I’ve spent my time researching how recipes traveled and adapted between East and Central Asia from the 7th to 13th Century CE, including funded research in field.

My projects have appeared at Museum of Food and Drinks (MOFAD), Whitney Museum, Long Island Maker Fair, NYU Maker Space, and NYC Media Lab.

I'd love to hear from you, for thoughts, chats, or collaborations! 

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Una Zhang
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A three-parts project that uses dumplings as tangible expressions of cultural adaptation and identity formation, revealing how the unfamiliar, the alien, is folded into shared experience and archived into collective memories. 
Highlight:
Research,
Physical-build,
Participatory Art,
Experience Design,
Exhibition Design,
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Dark Room Experience for Alice Austen House
2024 - 2025
An end-to-end client project combining physical miniature, wall relief, and an augmented reality experience to help museum visitors explore Alice Austen’s darkroom setup and process, otherwise inaccessible on the closed-off second floor.
Highlight:
Client Work,
Research,
Experience Design,
Exhibition Design,
Augumented Reality,
Physical-build,
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Cookie Lab
2023 - Present
Currently on view at Museum of Food and Drinks (MOFAD).
A participatory sensory station that uses cookies to explore the interplay between taste and smell and between sensory experience and perception.
Highlight:
Research,
Physical-build,
Sensory Design,
Experience Design,
Exhibition Design,
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Fated Time: A Recreation of the Antikythera Mechanism
Jan - June 2024
A research-based, multi-stage interactive installation that recreates the Antikythera Mechanism (~100 BCE) in a personal, playful, and informative way.
Highlight:
Research,
Physical-build,
Interaction Design,
Digital Fabrication,
Augmented Reality,
Exhibition Design,
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Scents of Us
Oct 2023 - March 2024
2024 NYC Media Lab X Chanel Virtual  Synesthesia Challenge Winner
A multi-sensory experience where scents are rendered visible and audible.
Highlight:
Physical-build,
Multisensory Design,
Exhibition Design,
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