Diana Mulan Zhu
Areas of Specialization: Painting, Performance art, video art, experimental film, installation, sculpture
Email: dianamulanzhu@gmail.com
Web: http://www.dianamulanzhu.com
Diana Mulan Zhu is a multidisciplinary artist, visual activist, filmmaker, and scholar
of technology, sexuality, and trauma. She uses performance art, painting, video art
and installation to explore how sexuality, race and technology mediate each other.
Diana Mulan Zhu grew up in the Pacific Northwest and studied computer science and
studio art at Vanderbilt University for her BA. She holds a MA in Media, Culture,
and Communication from NYU, where she wrote her thesis on how cyber sexual assault
and cable television can mediate each other as virtual violence. She also has over
a decade of professional experience working as a technologist at tech and media powerhouses
like Microsoft, Intel, NBCUniversal, and Viacom.
Diana is currently pursuing her MFA in Art at SUNY Stony Brook University. She is
a Graduate Fellow at the DISCO (Digital Inquiry, Speculation, Collaboration, and Optimism)
Network, where she uses her interdisciplinary art practice and research to tackle
digital inequity. This fellowship is a part of the Future Histories Studio run by
professor Stephanie Dinkins, whose initiative is funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
for the study of technology, race, gender, disability, and power. Diana Mulan Zhu
works and lives in Brooklyn, NY.