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.