Daaa's HD
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last modified 2023
created in 1998
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Robot Knows
What if you run out of some ingredients when making a dish?

Sure, you can go out to purchase some. But also, you can choose to revise the recipe a little bit based on the foods in your hand; and please be proud of it, that's human intelligence. However, we are losing this intelligence after industrialization. Is it appropriate to cut every unique tree into the same board?

  • Installation Art
  • AI Generated
IDEAS AR
This is an AR treasure-hunting game.

There are secrets hidden in the IDEAS campus; could you find them? Scan the QR codes on any suspect surfaces, collect clues, and unlock your final reward!

  • AR
  • Interactive Exhibition
if (isMeaningful)
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   MakeItMeaningful();
   MakeItFun();
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   MakeItFun();
}
Time Travel Bandit
Unstable cracks are appearing.

It’s becoming easier for people to travel through time and space. Our character, Baaa, is a professional thief. Recently, he has started to make a living by traveling through time and space and stealing treasure.

  • Shader
  • Architecture
Sonarogue
Eyes covered. How to survive the dungeon? Use sonar!

This game is made solo in a two-week game dev challenge. It's a sonar-detect roguelike game. In this dungeon, your vision is taken, and your only ability is to use a sonar device. Play it online on itch.io!

  • Atmospheric
  • Minimalistic
Daaa's Horse
Just squeeze.
  • Soft Body
  • Interactive
Don't Let the Cat Sleep
Get up, kitty!
  • Robot Arm
  • Pet's Toy
Chinese Calligraphy
This is a 40-meter-long calligraphy scroll.

It took me three months to create, and I treated every stroke meticulously. With such an opportunity, each stroke is an examination and tempering of my heart and spirit.

  • Calligraphy Art
  • XXXL Scale
Wander Corgi VR
Wanna be a dog and leave pee-mails to others?

In this VR experience, you will become a corgi, waking up and finding your favorite toy lost in the city. Be a detective! Read the pee-mails left by your friends, and discover the clues.

  • Animal View
  • VR
Living Hybrid
An architectural manifesto.

The future of democratic design and growing architecture with the participation of the GANs. Every opinion matters; how can we take them into design consideration with the help of AI?

  • Architectural Design
  • Graphic Design
Mask
The pandemic is the best time of my life.

The short film is a story about a woman worker being laid off by a mask factory before the pandemic. To pay for her salary, the factory gave her 1 ton of masks, which were worth nothing before the pandemic. But later, the situation changed. Mask has become a hot barter for money and sexual resources.

  • Set Design
  • Short Film
Read Me

Daaa Zhao

My name is Daaa. You can call me Da or Daaaaaa, as many ‘a’ as you wish. This is a playable version of my name. My projects are usually cross-boundaries, and my skillset contains a wide range of stuff, from art to tech, from digital to physical. Majored in architecture, I continued to pursue my passion in both technology and creative process, working on projects in installation arts, augmented reality, interactive devices, game development, etc.

What I do

Interdisciplinary is precisely what I am good at. Every time the inspiration burst, in order to set the idea free from limits, I would learn some new skills to counter the challenge. Over time, I have broadened my skillset widely open, from art to tech, from reality to virtuality. Below is an axis graph to explain the Art-Tech/Digital-Physical coordinate of the skillsets used in my projects.

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Welcome

Welcome to my personal computer!

Here I store my personal projects. You, as my guest, will be able to dig into my hard drive and view my projects (please try not to delete them). I also hide some easter eggs in this machine.

I've set up two different pathways for art and tech visitors.

Most of my projects cross the "border" between art and tech. You can choose which perspective you want to start with, or just feel free to play around as you wish.

Quick links.

I'm trying to write my own game engine and its tutorial.
Also, a real-time ray-tracer from scratch.

My name is Daaa.

You can call me Da or Daaaaaa, or just as many 'a' as you like. This is a playable version of my name. Here on this computer, the more 'a' you call me, the more art power from me will be called out; the tech part vice versa. Now, say hi to me:

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Maybe it's not a good idea to shut my website down without a hardware reset button. Proceed?

Just kidding. Nothing was actually shutdown. It wouldn't have been a good idea. Do it again?

Permission denied. Please reconsider your actions.

Please use a computer for a better experience.

This is literally Daaa.computer
not Daaa.phone or Daaa.psp

Sorry for any inconvenience.
Thank you for your support!