YuanZhang is an interdisciplinary visual
designer and cross-media narrator (in visual, spatial, interactive, performance
and video). A graduate of Tsinghua University and the Royal College of Art, she
is also a researcher and project leader at the Tsinghua Institute of Visual
Studies, the
Institute for Creative New Media Interpretation
& Performing Arts（IMPA). Her
main research interests include immersive new media arts and spaces, performing
and interpretative arts and theatre, and digital expressions of traditional
culture and media design for special groups.
Her works include round dance design in the
opening ceremony of the Winter Paralympic Games, stage installation design for
the cultural performance of the G20 National Summit, main visual design for the
float of the 2019 World Garden Festival, standard development and。 production of
the design of the float for the 70th-anniversary parade of the founding of the
country, interior design for the carriages of the Beijing-Zhanggong High-speed
Railway, general visual for the graduation fashion show of the Academy of Fine
Arts of Tsinghua University, character scene design for films and games (e.g.
Tencent Game for peace), the Several book illustrations for Tsinghua University
Press, etc.
Her research projects on children with
hearing impairment were awarded the TUGICC (The Global Innovation Centre for
Children), jointly established by Tsinghua University and UNICEF and a
state-funded grant: research on the design of thematic scientific space
displays based on scientific visualization. forum - Centre Pompidou, France,
the West Museum of Suzhou Museum, the Wanda Taste Museum, and the Academy of
Fine Arts exhibition of Tsinghua University. She has received three national
academic scholarships, an innovator of Tsinghua University's Global Youth
Creativity Programme, an outstanding award in the National Original
Illustration Design Competition of the Great Art Age, and the Han Meilin Art
Scholarship of Tsinghua University, etc.
张垣是一位跨学科的视觉艺术家和跨媒体叙述者（视觉、空间、互动、表演和影像等领域）。她在清华获得本科学位和硕士学位，并在英国皇家艺术学院获得第二个硕士学位；她还是清华视觉研究所、新媒体创意演绎与表演艺术研究所（IMPA）的研究员和项目负责人。她的主要研究兴趣是面向文化艺术领域的沉浸式新媒体艺术的空间体验设计、空间叙事方法论研究以及地理空间数据可视化的实践和理论探索。
其主导的GIS地理数据可视化、关于听障儿童发音、文本数据可视化的项目与论文等获得清华大学和联合国儿童基金会共同建立的全球儿童创新中心（TUGICC）、基于科学可视化的主题科学空间展示设计研究基金、与北京中轴线保护公益基金会等基金支持，并且入选了法国蓬皮杜音乐&声学研究所论坛（The IRCAM forum）、第十五届 浙江省美术作品展、国际艺术&设计与媒体院校联盟学术会议（CUMULUS）、第六届艺术与科学国际作品展暨学术研讨会、阿那亚戏剧节、、清华大学第 36 届挑战杯科展暨三创博览会、中国苏州博物馆西馆、清华大学美术学院的展览等等。多次获得国家学术奖学金、全球青年创意计划创新者、大艺术时代全国原创插画设计大赛优秀奖、清华大学韩美林艺术奖等。
其设计有冬残奥会开幕式中圆舞曲设计、国家大剧院数字艺术展—艺·境、G20国家峰会文艺演出的舞台装置设计、2019年世园会花车主视觉设计、建国70周年阅兵花车设计标准制定与制作、京张高铁车厢内饰设计、清华大学美术学院毕业时装秀总视觉、影视和游戏的人物场景设计（如腾讯平精英IP）、清华大学出版社的多本书籍插画等。
