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Sara Diamond (academic administrator)

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Sara Louise Diamond
CM OOnt
Sara Diamond speaking at a reception for the calendar project in 2014
Born (1954-03-09) 9 March 1954 (age 70)
The Bronx, NYC
Alma materSimon Fraser University, University of the Arts, London, University of East London
Known forvideo artist
AwardsBell Canada Award in Video Art 1995

Sara Louise Diamond, CM OOnt RCA (born 9 March 1954)[1] is a Canadian artist and was the president of OCAD University, Canada.[2][3]

Life

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Born in New York City,[4]: 270  US, in 1954, Diamond was raised from 1959 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, where her father was the executive director of the Jewish Family and Child Service and her mother a professor at the University of Toronto.[5] Diamond has an undergraduate Honours BA in Communications and History from Simon Fraser University, and a master's degree in Digital Media Theory from the University of the Arts, London.

Diamond holds a PhD in computing, information technology and engineering, from the University of East London, England, with a focus on data visualization.[6] 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 in 1995 and led it until 2005.[7] Diamond taught at Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design, at Capilano College, at the California Institute for the Arts and remains an adjunct professor at UCLA.[8]

She is a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts.[9] In 2012 she was made a member of the Order of Ontario.[10]

Career highlights

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Founded and led the international Banff New Media institute from 1995 to 2005, establishing research and commercialization summits of artists, designers, scientists and companies, practice based and research workshops, creative co-productions, laboratories and research in new media. Diamond also led Ontario College of Art and Design University (OCAD U) to retain its traditional strengths in art and design, while transforming the university to become a leader in STEAM+D (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, Math, Medicine and Design), with capacities in digital media, design research and curriculum. She initiated and funding the Digital Futures Initiative and the Digital Media Research and Innovation Institute; supported OCAD U's unique research in Inclusive Design and design for health. She collaborated with Indigenous colleagues to develop the Indigenous Visual Culture

Program, with correlative prioritization of Indigenous knowledge and culture at OCAD U.[11]

At OCAD U, Diamond led three strategic plans with resulting scorecards and metrics, new vision and mission, brand development, related academic, research, capital and digital infrastructure strategies and implementation plans, multi-year forecasts. The three projects were: Smart Communities as Platform Co-operatives, Housing Typology Innovations, and Culture Creates Bonds.[12]

Diamond is founding Chair of the Mobile Experience Innovation Centre and current co-chair (with RBC). She is co-principal investigator on the Centre for Information Visualization/Data Driven Design, an OCAD U/York University major initiative and sits on the board of the National Centre of Excellence GRAND. Diamond continues to write and lecture on the subjects of digital media history, digital media, strategic foresight; mobility and design strategy for peer-reviewed journals and acts as a reviewer and evaluator for IEEE and ACM conferences and journals; SSHRC, CFI and the Canada Research Chair programs. Her artwork is held by prestigious collections such as the Museum of Modern Art, NYC and the National Gallery of Canada.[13]

Art career

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Diamond's work as an artist was shown in exhibitions including at the National Gallery of Canada, the Museum of Modern Art, and the Vancouver Art Gallery.[14] In 1992, Diamond's work was shown in a retrospective titled Memories Revisited, History Retold, organized by the National Gallery of Canada.[15] During her time as an undergraduate student at Simon Fraser University, Diamond created the Women's Labour History Project, which, beginning in 1978, collected the oral histories of women who were active in the trade union movement, published resources on the women, toured a photo exhibition, and produced videos of the histories.[16] The project is now housed in the Simon Fraser University Archives.[17]

Works

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Year Title Credit
1980 Influences of My Mother Director
1984 Heroics: A Quest Director
1988 Keeping the Home Fires Burning Director
1990-1991 The Lull Before the Storm Director
1992 On to Ottawa Director
1992 Paternity Director
1996 The Dream of the Night Cleaners Producer
1998 Singing Our Stories Executive producer

Awards

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  • 2018: Inspiring 50: Advancement of diversity of STEM fields, Government of Netherlands and Senate of Canada[18]
  • 2017: Canada 150 Women: Leaders, Champions and Luminaries[19]
  • 2014: Toronto Life's 50 Most Influential[20]
  • 2014: Appointed as senior fellow, Massey College, University of Toronto[21]
  • 2013: Awarded Queen's Diamond Jubilee Medal for significant contributions to
  • Canada[22]
  • 2013: Awarded Digital Media Pioneer, Grand National Centre of Excellence[22]
  • 2012: Awarded Order of Ontario[23]
  • 2009: Nominated and inducted into the Royal Canadian Academy of Art[11]
  • 2003: CodeZebra – Winner of Canadian Digital Innovation Award[22]
  • 2002: Educator of the Year – Canadian New Media Awards[24]
  • 1995: Bell Canada Award in Video Art 1995[25]
  • 1990: Dean's Medal and gold medal for outstanding achievement in History, History Department, Simon Fraser University[26]
  • 1990: The Stephen McIntyre Book Prize, Simon Fraser University[26]

Author's publications

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  • Diamond, Sara (2011). Artists & Designers: An Experiment in Data Visualization. 8th ACM conference on Creativity and cognition (C&C '11). New York, New York: ACM. pp. 195–196. doi:10.1145/2069618.2069651. ISBN 978-1-4503-0820-5.
  • Diamond, Sara; Cook, Sarah, eds. (2011). Euphoria & Dystopia: The Banff New Media Dialogues. Banff: Banff Centre Press. ISBN 9780920159712.
  • Diamond, Sara (2005). Participation, Flow, and the Redistribution of Authorship: The Challenges of collaborative Exchange and New Media Curatorial Practice. Museums and the Web 2005: Proceedings, Mar. 31 Spring, 2005.[27]
  • Pearce, Celia; Diamond, Sara; Beam, Mark (2003). "Bridges I: Interdisciplinary Collaboration as Practice". Leonardo. 36 (2). MIT Press: 123–128. doi:10.1162/002409403321554189. JSTOR 1577438. S2CID 57568902.
  • Diamond, Sara; Kibbins, Gary (1998). Total recall: History, memory & new documentary. Vancouver: Satellite Video Exchange Society.[28]

References

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  1. ^ "Sara Diamond, 1954–". National Gallery of Canada. Retrieved 23 July 2014.
  2. ^ "Detail Display Page". Canadian Who's Who. Grey House Publishing Canada. Retrieved 23 July 2014.
  3. ^ Pinchin, Karen (2014). "Fashion Forward" (PDF). Canadian Fabric. 1: 62. Retrieved 23 July 2014.
  4. ^ Pohl, Frances (March 1996). "Sara Diamond: Video art and activism in Canada". Women's Studies (Interview). 25 (3). Taylor & Francis Group: 269–291. doi:10.1080/00497878.1996.9979111. ISSN 0049-7878.
  5. ^ Jermyn, Diane (13 April 2010). "Ontario art school leader comes full circle". The Globe and Mail. Retrieved 11 September 2010.
  6. ^ OCAD University, Office of the President, OCAD University. Accessed 13 October 2012.
  7. ^ "Dr. Sara Diamond". OCAD University. 16 August 2016. Retrieved 8 March 2019.
  8. ^ "Sara Diamond". The Banff Centre. Retrieved 11 September 2010.
  9. ^ "List of members". Royal Canadian Academy of Arts. Retrieved 23 July 2014.
  10. ^ Ontario Ministry of Citizenship, Immigration and International Trade (20 January 2012). "27 Appointees Named To Ontario's Highest Honour" (Press release).
  11. ^ a b "About Dr. Sara Diamond - President - OCAD U". www.ocadu.ca. Retrieved 26 March 2019.
  12. ^ "Dr. Sara Diamond". OCAD University. Retrieved 26 March 2019.
  13. ^ "Dr. Sara Diamond". OCAD University. 16 August 2016. Retrieved 26 March 2019.
  14. ^ Kabatoff, Mathew (2000). "Sara Diamond". Canadian Art (Interview). 17 (3): 46–48. ISSN 0825-3854.
  15. ^ Plohman, Angela (2000). "Sara Diamond". la fondation Daniel Langlois : Daniel Langlois Foundation. Retrieved 8 March 2019.
  16. ^ Harris, Pamela (1992). Faces of Feminism: Portraits of Women Across Canada. Toronto: Second Story Press. pp. 94–95. ISBN 0929005376.
  17. ^ "Women's Labour History Project". VIVO Media Arts Centre. Retrieved 21 January 2016.
  18. ^ "President Diamond honoured by "Inspiring 50 Canada"". OCAD University. 6 May 2018. Retrieved 26 March 2019.
  19. ^ "President Sara Diamond profiled in Canada 150 Women". OCAD University. 20 November 2017. Retrieved 26 March 2019.
  20. ^ "Toronto's 50 Most Influential: the people who changed the city in 2014". Toronto Life. 14 November 2014. Retrieved 26 March 2019.
  21. ^ "Sara Diamond". Inspiring Fifty: Canada. Retrieved 26 March 2019.
  22. ^ a b c "Sara Diamond | GRAND NCE". www.grand-nce.ca. Retrieved 26 March 2019.
  23. ^ "OCAD University President Sara Diamond named to Order of Ontario". OCAD University. 19 December 2013. Retrieved 26 March 2019.
  24. ^ "Delvinia names Canadian New Media Award winners". Retrieved 26 March 2019.
  25. ^ Gale, Peggy. "Sara Diamond". Video Art in Canada. Vtape. Retrieved 23 July 2014.
  26. ^ a b "Sara Diamond, Digital Media Arts Pioneer, on her "Early Days" at SFU - Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences - Simon Fraser University". www.sfu.ca. Retrieved 26 March 2019.
  27. ^ "Archives & Museum Informatics: Museums and the Web 2005: Papers: Diamond, Participation, Flow, and the Redistribution of Authorship: The Challenges of Collaborative Exchange and New Media Curatorial Practice". www.museumsandtheweb.com. 2005. Retrieved 9 March 2019.
  28. ^ "Artist | Vtape". www.vtape.org. Retrieved 8 March 2019.
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