Gromala has always pushed the envelope for art beyond traditional canvas and computer graphics domains into Virtual Reality (VR) and Physiological Computing. Her work has been performed and presented in North America, Europe, the Middle East and has caught the attention of media networks such as Discovery Channel and the BBC.
Along with collaborator Lily Shirvanee, Gromala was a semi-finalist for Discover magazine's Award for Technological Innovation in 2001 for work which combines biomedical technologies with mixed reality.

Gromala's critical analyses of virtual media are informed by
her work as an artist, designer and teacher. Gromala is the
co-author, with Jay David Bolter, of the forthcoming book Windows and Mirrors: Electronic Art, Design, and the Myth of Transparency, which reexamines the issues of human computer interaction and interface design from the perspective of media and cultural theory.


Gromala is on the Editorial Board of Postmodern Culture and Visual Communication and was Chair of SIGGRAPH's Art Gallery for the year 2000. In 2002, Gromala was named Chair of the United Nations' (UNESCO) Art, Science & Technology initiative. As a Senior Fulbright Fellow, Gromala helped create a new joint program in Human Computer Interaction Design at Wanganui Polytechnic and Waikato University, and performed cultural analyses of the use of technology and the embodiment of cultural difference at New Zealand's national museum Te Papa.

Throughout the 1980s, Diane Gromala worked as a designer and art director in the corporate realm, including Apple Computer, Inc. Her undergraduate and graduate degrees are from the University of Michigan and Yale University, respectively.