Yi Zhou (Zoey Zhou)
Interdisciplinary Artist & Creative Technologist
Working across interactive installation, performance and digital media
Trace in the Air
- Field
- Sound / Projection
- Form
- Interactive installation
Recorded voices return after a delay, moving suspended fabric and transforming projected text into traces of an absent speaker.
- Year
- 2025–2026
The Rain Season of Youth
- Field
- Education / Memory & emotion
- Form
- Interactive installation
Exam papers, moss and responsive mist give physical form to emotions concealed by standardised education.
- Year
- 2025
Piano at Fingertips
- Field
- Sound / Digital media
- Form
- Interactive audiovisual installation
Fingers bend virtual strings and trigger sound, transforming movement in the air into an audiovisual instrument.
- Year
- 2025
Shaman Planet
- Field
- Costume / Digital media
- Form
- Collaborative installation
Ritual costume and projected particles imagine a Saturnian culture, connecting shamanic symbolism with planetary forms.
- Location
- Shanghai
- Year
- 2023
Get Closer
- Field
- Motion capture / 3D animation
- Form
- Group animation project
A child flees two shadowy figures who are revealed as their parents, exploring the tension between care and control.
- Year
- 2025
Water Clock
- Field
- Digital media / Sound
- Form
- Interactive installation
Hand gestures gather and release digital droplets, turning the passage of time into movement, sound and expanding ripples.
- Year
- 2025
Monet
- Field
- Generative art / Creative coding
- Form
- Digital artwork
Shifting blocks of colour reinterpret Impressionist light and movement through computational rules and chance.
- Year
- 2024
The Freedom to Make Mistakes and Use Them
- Field
- Generative sound / Max/MSP
- Form
- Sound experiment
An accidental connection becomes a generative sound system, where asynchronous triggers and feedback turn error into creative material.
- Year
- 2025
Threshold
- Field
- Projection design / Digital media
- Form
- Physical theatre
Audio-reactive projection and motion-tracked ink imagery extend the performers’ gestures through a theatrical exploration of divided identity.
- Location
- Platform Theatre / The Courtyard Theatre, London
- Year
- 2026
The Face Within the Face
- Field
- Digital interaction / Photography & film
- Form
- Experimental performance
Sichuan Opera face-changing meets the Vakhtangov approach, with digital interaction and documentation extending the performance’s visual language.
- Location
- Etcetera Theatre, London
- Year
- 2026
Falling into the Boundless Galaxy
- Field
- Video design / Digital media
- Form
- Original musical
Moving images and a cosmic visual language work alongside music and live performance to shape the production’s theatrical world.
- Location
- George Wood Theatre, Goldsmiths, London
- Year
- 2025
The Mask Policy
- Field
- Photography / Film
- Form
- Theatre documentation
Photography and moving-image documentation capture a workplace satire about ambition, identity and the masks people adopt.
- Location
- The Hen & Chickens Theatre, London
- Year
- 2025
Wukong and Kong
- Field
- Stage & technical direction / Digital media
- Form
- Live performance
Acting, puppetry, projection and audience participation explore family expectations and personal choice; technical direction brings these elements together.
- Location
- Festival Off Avignon / Edinburgh Festival Fringe
- Year
- 2026
Synthetic Memory
- Field
- Computational arts / Synthetic media
- Form
- MA dissertation
This research examines how synthetic images, voices and narratives can feel like a plausible personal past before their construction is disclosed.
- Year
- 2026
Audience Behaviour, Digital Feedback and Immersive Performance Space
- Field
- Digital feedback / Participatory performance
- Form
- Practice-based research development
A proposed railway waiting-room environment explores how audiences recognise, test and negotiate agency through digital feedback.
- Year
- 2026
Trace in the Air: Exploring Anticipation and Agency through Delayed Interaction
- Field
- Embodied interaction / Audience agency
- Form
- Practice research
Three installation iterations investigate how delayed, uncertain responses reshape anticipation, waiting and participants’ sense of agency.
- Year
- 2025–2026
ABOUT
Yi Zhou (Zoey Zhou) is a London-based interdisciplinary artist, researcher, and performance technologist working across interactive installation, live performance, computational media, and digital scenography.
Her practice brings together a background in storytelling and directing with computational and interactive technologies, exploring how technology can shape relationships between bodies, space, narrative, and participation.
She works with TouchDesigner, creative coding, motion tracking, projection, sound, and physical computing, using technology not simply as a visual effect, but as an active system that influences how audiences perceive, respond, and make choices.
Her current research focuses on audience agency, embodied anticipation, waiting, feedback, and technologically mediated participation, particularly within interactive and immersive environments.
Yi Zhou (Zoey Zhou) trained in Radio and Television Scriptwriting and Directing in China before continuing her postgraduate studies in Computational Arts at Goldsmiths, University of London. This transition from narrative-led practice to computational art continues to shape her interest in interactive and immersive storytelling.