Weidi Zhang
b / 1991 . Dec . Capricorn -
is a new media artist, visual designer, researcher, and educator. Her current research and media art practice interest is investigating the possibilities of non-linear narrativity and semantic meanings through intelligent system design and spatial visualization in immersive environments.
Her works are featured at different venues internationally, such as the SIGGRAPH, SIGGRAPH Asia, Japan Media Arts Festival 'Juried Selections', Times Art Museum, IEEE VIS art program, SwissNex Gallery, and among others. Currently, she is a Ph.D. candidate in the Media Arts and Technology Program, researcher in Experimental Visualization Lab, instructor in School of Art at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She holds her MFA degree in Art + Technology at California Institute of the Arts.
As a visual designer and concept artist, she was selected into WDI (Walt Disney Imagineering) blue sky project working as a concept artist in 2015. She has been working as a visual designer in the award-winning design studio (30sixty) in LA for key art and package design for TV shows.
张味迪是活跃在洛杉矶的新媒体艺术家, 视觉设计师, 研究员 和 教育工作者。她目前的新媒体艺术研究和实践是围绕通过智能系统设计和在沉浸式虚拟空间的数据可视化来探索非线性叙事和多重语义的可能性。她的作品在国际上多个新媒体艺术节、会议、和艺术馆展出，其中包括日本新媒体艺术节评委会推荐奖，计算机图形顶级会议 SIGGRAPH art gallery，计算机可视化领域的顶级会议IEEE VIS art program ，旧金山SwissNex画廊等。
目前她于加州大学圣巴巴拉分校攻读新媒体艺术与科技博士（Ph.D) 学位。同时她任教于加州大学圣塔芭芭拉分校艺术学院。她在迪斯尼创办的加州艺术学院获得艺术与科技硕士学位。作为一名视觉设计师和概念艺术家，她在2015年入选华特迪士尼幻想工程蓝天项目担任概念设计师。她曾在洛杉矶的获奖设计工作室（30sixty）担任视觉设计师，主要负责美国电视节 目主视觉与包装设计。