Wei di
Zhang:
is a new media artist /researcher [ currently based in Los Angeles ]. She was born and raised in Suzhou [苏州, China], a beautiful historical city renowned for its unique architectural style of Chinese gardens. Inspired by a Chinese garden design strategy - Borrowed Scenery -she observes and frames her surrounding environments as an ever-changing multi-layered assemblage.
Currently, she is a Ph.D. candidate in the Media Arts and Technology Program and a graduate researcher in Experimental Visualization Lab at UC Santa Barbara. She taught at UC Santa Barbara and The Ohio State University. She holds her MFA degree in Art + Technology at the California Institute of the Arts and a BFA degree in Photo/Media at the University of Washington, Seattle.
Her interdisciplinary art and design research investigates A Speculative Assemblage at the intersection of immersive media design, experimental data visualization, and interactive AI art. Her works are featured at international awards, exhibitions, festivals, and conferences, such as the Best In Show Award in SIGGRAPH Art Gallery [US], Prix Trames Sonore Award in Society For Arts and Technology [CAN], Juried Selection in Japan Media Arts Festival [JP], ISEA, shortlisted for Lumen Prize [UK], Times Art Museum [CN], SwissNex Gallery, SIGGRAPH ASIA, CVPR, IEEE VISAP, Zeiss-Planetarium Jena (GE), Planetarium 1(RUS), and others. As a visual designer, She worked in the award-winning visual design studios in LA and she was selected for Walt Disney Imagineering (WDI) educational initiative for entertainment design in 2015.
张味迪，新媒体艺术家、 视觉设计师，现居洛杉矶。她在新媒体艺术领域的研究与实践主要围绕实验数据可视化、互动人工智能系统设计、沉浸式环境设计、思辨设计领域来探索人机现实里基于图像数据的互动可视化。她的作品参展于多个国际新媒体艺术节、国际顶级学术会议和艺术馆。包括: SIGGRAPH 艺术馆 "最佳作品奖“、ISEA 国际电子艺术研讨会、SIGGRAPH 亚洲展区、 IEEE VIS艺术展、北京时代美术馆、日本新媒体艺术节评委会选择奖、旧金山 SwissNex画廊、CVPR 艺术展区、两次入围英国流明数码艺术奖并获得荣誉提名等。她的沉浸式视听作品展映于多个国际穹顶电影节和天文馆，如 Metaxis 新媒体艺术节天文馆 1 号（俄罗斯）、耶拿·蔡斯天文馆（德国）、艺术科技协会 （加拿大）、墨尔本天文馆/维多利亚博物馆等。目前她是加州大学圣塔芭芭拉分校（媒体艺术与科技系）博士研究生、实验可视化实验室研究员。她兼职任教于俄亥俄州立大学设计学院-艺术与设计高级计算中心和加州大学圣塔芭芭拉分校艺术系。之前，她毕业于华盛顿大学西雅图分校影像传媒专业获学士学位(2014 )，并于2016年在加州艺术学院获得艺术与科技硕士学位。她曾在洛杉矶的获奖设计工作室担任视觉设计师并于2015年入选华特迪士尼幻想工程蓝天项目担任概念设计师。
