Weidi Zhang (b. 1991, Dec) 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 A Speculative Assemblage of artificial memories and language at the intersection of immersive media design, experimental data visualization, and interactive AI art.
Her work has received widespread international recognition, earning distinctions such as the Best in Show Award(s) at ACM SIGGRAPH (2021, 2022), the Red Dot Design Award (2022), an Honorary Mention at Prix Ars Electronica (2022), the Muse Design Award (2025), the A' Design Award (2024), the Asia Pacific Design Award (2024), Juried Selections at the Japan Media Arts Festival (2020), and placements on the Lumen Prize Shortlist (2020, 2021). Weidi’s works have been featured at major global institutions and festivals, including the CCCB (ES), V2_ Lab (NL), Artechouse NYC (US), Times Art Museum (CN), the Zeiss-Großplanetarium (DE), the Society for Arts and Technology (CA), SwissNex Gallery (US), MAD Art Museum (US), ACM SIGGRAPH / SIGGRAPH Asia, ISEA, FILE (BR), ADAF (GR), Mutek (MX), IEEE VIS, CVPR, among many others.
Currently, Weidi is in an artist residency with the Society for Arts and Technology Satosphere in Montreal (Canada). As a visual designer, she has worked with award-winning design studios in Los Angeles and was selected for the Walt Disney Imagineering (WDI) educational initiative for entertainment design in 2015.
She holds a Ph.D. in Media Arts and Technology from the University of California, Santa Barbara, an MFA in Art + Technology from the California Institute of the Arts, and a BFA in Photo/Media from the University of Washington, Seattle. Weidi has also lectured at UC 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家与设计师，现任亚利桑那州立大学媒体与沉浸式体验中心的沉浸式体验设计终身教轨助理教授，并担任博士生导师。她的跨学科研究聚焦于“人工记忆与语言的未来性组合”，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的前沿方法与表达。
她的作品备受国际关注，获得多项重要奖项，包括：ACM SIGGRAPH “Best in Show” 大奖（2021、2022）、红点设计大奖（2022）、林茨电子艺术节 Ars Electronica 荣誉提名（2022）、Muse 设计奖（2025）、A' 设计奖（2024）、亚太设计奖（2024）、日本媒体艺术祭评审入选（2020），并多次入围 Lumen Prize（2020、2021）。她的作品曾在众多国际重要机构与大型艺术科技节展展出，包括：巴塞罗那当代文化中心（西班牙）、荷兰鹿特丹 V2_ 不稳定媒体实验室、纽约 Artechouse（美国）、北京时代美术馆（中国）、柏林蔡司大型天文馆（德国）、蒙特利尔艺术与科技协会（加拿大）、SwissNex（美国）、MAD 艺术博物馆（美国）、ACM SIGGRAPH、SIGGRAPH Asia、ISEA 国际电子艺术研讨会、巴西 FILE 艺术节、雅典数字艺术节（希腊）、墨西哥 Mutek、IEEE VIS、CVPR 等众多国际艺术与科技平台。
目前，Weidi 正在加拿大蒙特利尔艺术与科技协会的 Satosphere 进行艺术家驻留项目。作为视觉设计师，她曾与洛杉矶多家获奖设计工作室合作，并于 2015 年入选迪士尼幻想工程（Walt Disney Imagineering）娱乐设计教育计划。她拥有加州大学圣塔芭芭拉分校的媒体艺术与技术博士学位，加州艺术学院的艺术与科技硕士学位，以及华盛顿大学西雅图分校的摄影/媒体艺术学士学位。此外，她也曾在加州大学圣塔芭芭拉分校与俄亥俄州立大学担任讲师。