About
Maria Mendez is an interaction designer/ creative coder living in New York.
Her work explores how audiovisual technology can be used to transform, expand, amplify and interpret physical spaces.
Since the early 2000s her work has involved computational design tools and interactivity. After exploring the potentialities of video, experimental animation and video installations as an undergraduate, she began to incorporate interactivity as a new element in her creative work accomplishing this through the study of topics such as web development, information design, and programming. This helped to spark her interest in information visualization and in how large sets of data can be used as part of the rules that govern generative design processes.
Mapping and recontextualizing information and the embedding of interactive information in physical places are central to her work.