• Dr. Sara Diamond (US/CA) is the President of OCAD University, Canada’s “university of the imagination”. She holds a PhD in Computing, Information Technology and Engineering from the University of East London, a Masters in Digital Media theory from the University of Arts, London and Honours Bachelors of Arts in History and Communications from Simon Fraser University. She is an appointee of the Order of Ontario and the Royal Canadian Society of Artists and a recipient of the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Medal for service to Canada. She is the winner of the 2013 GRAND NCE Digital Media Pioneer Award. Her book (with Sarah Cook) Euphoria & Dystopia: The Banff New Media Dialogues, a history of the boom, bust and reset years of the first wave of digital media is currently available; published by Banff Centre Press and Riverdale Architectural Press, University of Waterloo. Diamond is a data visualization, wearable technology and mobile media researcher, artist and designer. She developed www.codezebra.net, a pioneering social media data visualization and sentiment analysis software. She is co-principal investigator on the Centre for Information Visualization/Data Driven Design, an OCAD U/York University major initiative and is the holder of funding from the Social Science and Humanities Research Council, Canada Foundation for Innovation, MITACS, the National Sciences and Engineering Research Council and Ontario Centres for Excellence. Diamond was the Artistic Director of Media and Visual Art and Director of Research at the Banff Centre, where she created the Banff New Media Institute (BNMI) in 1995 and led it until 2005.  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sara_Diamond_(college_president)

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