¿Quién es: Weidi Zhang?
Weidi Zhang’s works are featured in international awards, such as the Best In Show Award in SIGGRAPH (2021,2022), Red Dot Design Award (2022), Honorary Mention in Prix Ars Electronica (2022), A’ Design Award (2024), Juried Selection in Japan Media Arts Festival(2020), Lumen Prize shortlists (2020, 2021) and others. Her interactive art installations have been exhibited at international new media art venues such as ISEA, Times Art Museum (China), Society For Arts and Technology (Canada), Siggraph/SiggraphAsia, SwissNex Gallery (USA), CVPR, IEEE VISAP, V2_Lab (Nederland) and CCCB (Spain) among others. Her immersive A/V work has been performed worldwide, such as Mutek MX, Zeiss-Planetarium (Germany), Planetarium 1 (Russia), C-LAB Taiwan, Mira Fest (Spain) and others. Currently, she is a collaborative artist with Harvard University FAS CAMLab on designing the immersive experience of Shadow Cave. As a visual designer, she worked in an award-winning visual design studio in LA, and she was selected for the Walt Disney Imagineering (WDI) educational initiative for entertainment design in 2015.
She holds a PhD 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. She has lectured at both UC Santa Barbara and Ohio State University.
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