Weidi Zhang is a new media artist and designer based in Los Angeles and Phoenix. She is a tenure-track Assistant Professor of Immersive Experience Design at the Media and Immersive eXperience (MIX) Center at Arizona State University. Her interdisciplinary research explores speculative assemblages of artificial memory and language at the intersection of immersive media design, experimental data visualization, and interactive AI art.
Her work has received international recognition through a range of awards and distinctions, including Best in Show Awards at ACM SIGGRAPH in 2021 and 2022 (US), an Honorary Mention at the Prix Ars Electronica in 2022 (AT), an iF Design Award in 2026 (DE), Red Dot Design Awards in 2022 and 2026 (DE), a Jury Selection at the Japan Media Arts Festival in 2020 (JP), and shortlist recognition from the Lumen Prize in 2020 and 2021 (UK), among others. Her new media research-based artworks have been featured at international institutions, museums, conferences, and festivals worldwide. Selected venues include ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe (DE), the Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona (ES), V2_ Lab for the Unstable Media (NL), Today Art Museum (CN), ACM SIGGRAPH (US), ISEA, FILE Festival (BR), Athens Digital Arts Festival (GR), Currents New Media (US), IEEE VIS (US), and CVPR (US), among others. Her immersive audiovisual works have also been presented at museums, planetariums, and audiovisual festivals internationally. Selected exhibition include ARTECHOUSE NYC (US), the Zeiss-Großplanetarium (DE), the Society for Arts and Technology (SAT) (CA), MUTEK (CA), and MIRA Festival (ES), among others.
She holds a Ph.D. in Media Arts and Technology from the University of California, Santa Barbara; an MFA in Art and Technology from the California Institute of the Arts; and a BFA in Photo/Media from the University of Washington, Seattle. She has also taught and lectured at institutions including the University of California, Santa Barbara, and The Ohio State University.
张味迪博士是一位常驻洛杉矶与菲尼克斯的新媒体艺术设计师，现任亚利桑那州立大学媒体与沉浸式体验中心沉浸式体验设计方向终身教轨助理教授、博士生导师。她的跨学科研究聚焦于人工记忆与语言的思辨性集合，探索沉浸式媒体设计、实验性数据可视化与交互式人工智能艺术之间的交汇与表达。
她的作品获得广泛国际认可，曾连续两年荣获 ACM SIGGRAPH 最佳艺术作品奖、奥地利电子艺术奖荣誉奖、多次入围提名英国流明奖、日本新媒体艺术祭评审选择奖、并多次荣获国际设计奖如红点设计奖、iF设计奖、A‘设计奖、Muse设计奖等等。她的作品曾在众多重要国际机构与艺术科技节展展出，包括 ZKM博物馆（德国）、巴塞罗那当代文化中心 CCCB（西班牙）、V2_ Lab（荷兰）、纽约 Artechouse（美国）、今日美术馆（中国）、柏林蔡司大天文馆（德国）、蒙特利尔艺术与科技协会（加拿大），以及Mutek、ACM SIGGRAPH、SIGGRAPH Asia、ISEA、FILE、ADAF、Currents New Media、IEEE VIS、CVPR 等众多国际艺术与科技平台。她拥有加州大学圣塔芭芭拉分校媒体艺术与科技博士学位、加州艺术学院艺术与科技硕士学位，以及华盛顿大学西雅图分校摄影／媒体艺术学士学位。她曾于加州大学圣塔芭芭芭拉分校与俄亥俄州立大学任教。