Sara Diamond

Sara Diamond received her post-secondary education in Canada and the United Kingdom as a social historian, communications and new media theorist and creative practitioner. Diamond comes to the Ontario College of Art and Design from The Banff Centre, Canada’s national and international premier professional development institution. Diamond began her work there in 1992 and served as the Artistic Director of Media and Visual Art until 2003, and then as Director of Research for the entire Banff Centre from 2003 to 2005. She created the renowned Banff New Media Institute (BNMI) in 1995 and led this research and development centre for ten years. Diamond developed international summits and workshops that explored the near future of new media. She built alliances between artists, designers, architects, scientists, social scientists, and international and Canadian businesses. Under her leadership, BNMI developed award winning new media co-productions. She led research teams in data visualization, mobile new media content and engineering, fashion and technology, distance learning, collaborative methods and tools [in] art and technology. Diamond established new media and business development models and built and funded Accelerator initiatives. Diamond created and was Editor-in-Chief of www.horizonzero.ca an on-line showcase for new media art and design, in collaboration with Heritage Canada.

Diamond taught at Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design, The California Institute for the Arts and remains Adjunct Professor, University of California, Los Angeles in the Design/Media Department. Diamond is a practicing artist and designer, working in video installation, artist’s television and most recently conversation visualization software, artificial intelligence and performance. She has represented Canada in international biennials and festivals and her art and design work has won awards in Canada and abroad. Her work resides in collections such as the National Gallery of Canada and the Museum of Modern Art in New York. She contributes to scholarly journals and books, speaks about media history and practice around the world and is the curator of video and new media exhibitions in Canada and abroad. She has acted as a new media consultant to Heritage Canada, and DFAIT, as well as international governments, institutions and agencies as diverse as China, United Kingdom, Argentina, Finland, Australia, Brazil and the USA.

Associated with the following Banff Centre programs:

• Survival, Revival, Reunion: From Platform Media to Mobility Interactive Screen 0.5/Money and Law
  (Banff New Media Institute, 2005) August 16 - August 23

• Bodies in Motion: Memory, Personalization, Mobility and Design
  (Banff New Media Institute, 2006) June 25 - June 28

• Bodies in Play: Shaping and Mapping Mobile Applications
  (Banff New Media Institute, 2005) May 19 - May 22

• Mobile Digital Commons Design and Engineering Workshop
  (Banff New Media Institute, 2004) December 13 - December 16

• Interactive Project Lab
  (Banff New Media Institute, 2004) November 22 - November 26

• Am-I-Able Mobile Engineering Design Workshop
  (Banff New Media Institute, 2004) November 06 - November 09

• Participate/Collaborate: Reciprocity, Design and Social Networks
  (Banff New Media Institute, 2004) September 30 - October 03

• Inside/Outside: Responsive Environments and Ubiquitous Presence
  (Banff New Media Institute, 2004) August 05 - August 08

• Outside/Inside: Boundary Crossings, a Wearable Design Workshop
  (Banff New Media Institute, 2004) July 31 - August 04

• Interactive Screen 0.4 and Accelerator Workshop One: Money and Law
  (Banff New Media Institute, 2004) July 11 - July 18

• Simulation and Other Re-enactments: Modeling the Unseen
  (Banff New Media Institute, 2004) April 29 - May 02

• CWC/Corus New Media Career Accelerator Program
  (Banff New Media Institute, 2004) February 28 - March 05

• Wireless Laboratory
  (Banff New Media Institute, 2003) November 13 - November 16

• Skinning Our Tools: Designing for Context and Cult
  (Banff New Media Institute, 2003) October 01 - October 05

• Carbon versus Silicon: Thinking Small/Thinking Fast
  (Banff New Media Institute, 2003) August 07 - August 10

• Interactive Screen 0.3
  (Banff New Media Institute, 2003) July 15 - July 20

• The Beauty of Collaboration: Methods, Manners and Aesthetics
  (Banff New Media Institute, 2003) May 22 - May 25

• Bridges II
  (Banff New Media Institute, 2002) October 04 - October 06

• BRIDGES II
  (Banff New Media Institute, 2002) October 03 - October 06

• Quintessence: The Clumpy Matter of Art, Math, and Science Visualization
  (Banff New Media Institute, 2002) September 12 - September 14

• Artificial Stupidity/Artificial Intelligence
  (Banff New Media Institute, 2002) August 01 - August 04

• Writing for Interactive Media
  (Banff New Media Institute, 2002) July 26 - July 28

• Interactive Screen 0.2
  (Banff New Media Institute, 2002) July 02 - July 08

• Producing New Media: Money & Law
  (Banff New Media Institute, 2002) June 28 - June 30

• Intimate Technologies / Dangerous Zones
  (Banff New Media Institute, 2002) April 25 - April 28

• CWC/Corus New Media Career Accelerator
  (Banff New Media Institute, 2002) March 02 - March 08

• Digital Media Management
  (Banff New Media Institute, 2001) November 04 - November 05

• Emotional Architectures/Cognitive Armatures/Cognitive Science in Interactive Design
  (Banff New Media Institute, 2001) September 20 - September 22

• Emotional Architectures/Cognitive Armatures
  (Banff New Media Institute, 2001) September 20 - September 22

• Smart, Sexy and Healthy
  (Banff New Media Institute, 2001) September 06 - September 08

• Human Generosity Project: Enabling Collaboration over Networks
  (Banff New Media Institute, 2001) August 26 - August 28

• Human Generosity Project, Tools that Enable Collaboration
  (Banff New Media Institute, 2001) August 26 - August 28

• Unforgiving Memory
  (Banff New Media Institute, 2001) August 23 - August 25

• Interactive Screen 0.1
  (Banff New Media Institute, 2001) July 30 - August 05

• Interactive Screen 0.1
  (Banff New Media Institute, 2001) July 30 - August 05

• Producing New Media: Money and Law
  (Banff New Media Institute, 2000) July 26 - July 28

• Writing for Interactive Media
  (Banff New Media Institute, 2001) July 06 - July 08

• Living Architectures: Designing for Immersion and Interaction
  (Banff New Media Institute, 2000) September 22 - September 24

• The Banff Super Conductor: Network Collaborations: Convergent Services, ecommerce, Tactical Media, Filling for Fat Pipes
  (Banff New Media Institute, 2000) August 18 - August 21

• The Banff Super Conductor
  (Banff New Media Institute, 2000) August 18 - August 20

• Interactive Screen 0.0
  (Banff New Media Institute, 2000) August 07 - August 13

• Money & Law Speaker Biographies
  (Banff New Media Institute, 2000) August 03 - August 05

• Producing New Media: Money and Law
  (Banff New Media Institute, 2000) August 03 - August 05

• Growing Things: The Cultures of Nan Tech, Bio Tech, and Eco Tech Meat Art
  (Banff New Media Institute, 2000) June 02 - June 04

• Emotional Computing
  (Banff New Media Institute, 2000) May 11 - May 13

• Emotional Computing: Performing Arts, Fiction and Interactive Experience
  (Banff New Media Institute, 2000) May 11 - May 13

• Navigating Intelligence: A Banff Summit
  (Banff New Media Institute, 1999) September 09 - September 12

• Interactive Screen 9.9
  (Banff New Media Institute, 1999) July 28 - August 03

• Producing New Media: Money and Law
  (Banff New Media Institute, 1999) July 24 - July 26

• Advanced Design for Multimedia
  (Banff New Media Institute, 1999) June 26 - June 30

• Synch or Stream: A Banff Summit
  (Banff New Media Institute, 1999) May 15 - May 17

• Bell Canada and MediaLinx Present The Big Game Hunters Summit
  (Banff New Media Institute, 1998) September 19 - September 21

• Telus Presents Out of the Box: Into the Future of the Interface
  (Banff New Media Institute, 1998) September 04 - September 07

• Interactive Screen 19.98
  (Banff New Media Institute, 1998) July 29 - August 08

• Money and Law: An Up-to-the-Minute Seminar on Financing Digital Media Content and Software
  (Banff New Media Institute, 1998) April 25 - April 26

• Flesh Eating Technologies
  (Banff New Media Institute, 1997) December 06 - December 07

• Animation: An Exploration of Japanese ANIME
  (Banff New Media Institute, 1997) November 14 - November 16

• Financing Multimedia Software and Content Projects
  (Banff New Media Institute, 1997) September 27 - September 28

• The Digital Burgess
  (Banff New Media Institute, 1997) August 29 - September 01

• Interactive Screen '97
  (Banff New Media Institute, 1997) July 01 - July 11

• The Summer Summit at the Summit: A RealWorld/Banff Centre Think Tank on the Future of Interactive Media
  (Banff New Media Institute, 2005) June 17 - June 19

• The Selling of Silly and the Future of Funny: Television, Interactive Media & Comedy
  (Banff New Media Institute, 2005) June 13 - June 14

• Marriage or Divorce? Television and the Web
  (Banff New Media Institute, 1997) June 07 - June 08

• Death, Desire, the Dream and the Machine
  (Banff New Media Institute, 1996) November 23 - November 24

• Interactive Screen
  (Banff New Media Institute, 1996) July 19 - July 31

• Surf's Up The 1996 Deep Web Workshop
  (Banff New Media Institute, 1996) June 07 - June 08

• Interactive Screen Workshop- Beyond Television
  (Banff New Media Institute, 1995) June 17 - June 18

• Interactive Screen Workshop 1995
  (Banff New Media Institute, 1995) January 09 - January 24

• Interactive Project Lab
  (Banff New Media Institute, 2003) -

• REFRESH! The First International Conference on the Histories of Media Art, Science and Technology
  (Banff New Media Institute, 2005) -

• Curating and Conserving New Media Workshop and Symposium
  (Banff New Media Institute, 1998) -

• Interactive Project Lab
  (Banff New Media Institute, 2002) -

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