MARIa deniSE Yala is an artist and storitela who uses technology as a medium. As an interdisciplinary artist motivated by the social issues of today, I am constantly trying to find meaning within my work. My practice embraces a multiplicity of perspectives and often takes a social bent and an activist approach, interweaving themes of identity, feminism, politics, love, religion, sexuality, mental health, and Black womanhood. My latest experimental works explore the AIDS epidemic, using Augmented Reality (AR) latrinalia and a hypertext fairy tale as story formats.I hope to spark dialogue through my work.