Weidi Zhang is a new media artist and visual designer. 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 2019 art gallery, Japan Media Arts Festival 'Juried Selections', Times Art Museum, IEEE VisAP, SwissNex Gallery, etc. Currently, she is a Ph.D. candidate in the Media Arts and Technology Program 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.