Zeynep is an artist, researcher and educator from Istanbul, Turkey. She studied film and interactive media at Emerson College, later getting her start at LACMA’s Art+Tech lab. She then worked at the Sundance Film Festival's New Frontier Exhibitions and is a graduate of UCLA’s Design Media Arts MFA program. She is currently a Ph.D. candidate in the Media Arts and Practice program at USC’s School of Cinematic Arts.

She explores the intersections of memory, identity, and technology through archival media, 3D scanning, AI, and XR. She asks what it means for a memory to exist as a point cloud, a gaussian splat, or an AI hallucination, and how these forms shape trust, remembrance, and emotional connection to the past. Rather than treating these technologies solely as archival tools, she uses them as instruments for memory-making and storytelling, navigating themes of alienation, cultural history, and loss. Her work has been featured in notable festivals and conferences like Ars Electronica, Siggraph, ISEA, IEEE and the LA Art Show.