Meidi Zhang is a new media artist, visual designer, Ph.D. She is currently an assistant professor and Ph.D. advisor at the Center for Immersive Media and Experience Research at Arizona State University. Her research and creative work focuses on experimental data visualization, interactive AI system design, immersive environment design, and discursive design, exploring the application of image data in human-computer interactions that combine reality and reality.
Her works have won many international awards, including the “Best of the Best” at ACM SIGGRAPH for two consecutive years (2021 and 2022), the Red Dot Design Award (Germany), the Honorable Mention at the Austrian Festival of Electronic Arts, the A-Design Award (Italy), the Jury's Choice Award at the New Media Art Festival (Japan), and has been selected twice for the Lumen Digital Art Award (UK) and received an Honorary Mention. She has also been shortlisted twice for the Lumen Digital Art Award in the UK and received Honorable Mention. Her interactive art installations have been exhibited in many international new media art festivals and renowned exhibition venues, such as ISEA International Symposium on Electronic Art, V2_Lab Dynamic Media Laboratory in the Netherlands, Center for Contemporary Culture in Barcelona (Spain), ACM SIGGRAPH Art Fair, Beijing Times Art Museum, SwissNex Gallery in San Francisco, etc. She is also the author of a series of immersive visual installations. In addition, her immersive audiovisual works have been screened in several international domed theaters, including Mutek Electronic Music Festival, Mira Electronic Art Festival in Spain, and Zeiss Planetarium in Berlin, Germany. Zhang Weidi is currently a collaborative artist at the China Art Lab at Harvard University and has a residency at the Society for Arts and Technology in Montreal, Canada. She holds a PhD in Media Arts and Technology from the University of California, Santa Barbara.
Jie-Liang Luo is an AI scientist and AI artist. He founded Minus AI, which focuses on how AI technology can better empower the creative industry and help artists, designers, and architects better use AI tools to accomplish creative work. His artworks have been exhibited in many international new media art festivals, academic conferences and art galleries, including ISEA International Symposium on Electronic Art, SIGGRAPH Art Fair, IEEE VIS Art Fair, Beijing Times Art Museum, SwissNex Gallery in San Francisco, Cinema Mystica Art Gallery in Budapest, and Vancouver International Film Festival. His latest work has been awarded the A Design Prize in Italy. His academic papers have also been published in major international conferences such as SIGGRAPH, ICCV, ICRA, CoRL, IROS, ECCV, CoG and ICLR. He also serves as a reviewer for prestigious conferences such as ICLR, ICCV, GECCO, and journals such as RA-L, as an external doctoral supervisor at CMU and OSU, and as a researcher in collaboration with leading institutions such as MIT. He holds a PhD in Media Arts and Technology from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and was a Senior Principal Artificial Intelligence Research Scientist at Autodesk AI Labs in San Francisco.