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 at the intersection of immersive media design, experimental data visualization, and interactive AI art.

Her work has been recognized with prestigious international awards, including the Best in Show Award at SIGGRAPH (2021, 2022), the Red Dot Design Award (2022), an Honorary Mention at Prix Ars Electronica (2022), the A' Design Award (2024), and Juried Selections at the Japan Media Arts Festival (2020) and the Lumen Prize Shortlist (2020, 2021), among others. Weidi's interactive art installations have been exhibited at prominent international venues such as ISEA, Times Art Museum (China), Society for Arts and Technology (Canada), SIGGRAPH/SIGGRAPH Asia, SwissNex Gallery (USA), CVPR, IEEE VISAP, V2_Lab (Netherlands), CCCB (Spain), and more. Her immersive audio-visual works have been performed worldwide at events like MUTEK MX, Zeiss-Planetarium (Germany), Planetarium 1 (Russia), C-LAB Taiwan, and Mira Fest (Spain), among others.

Currently, Weidi is also a collaborative artist with Harvard University’s FAS CAMLab, working on the immersive experience Shadow Cave, and 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.