Sara Diamond

Sara Diamond is the President of OCAD University and SFU alumna. 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. 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.

Diamond's co-publication with Sarah Cook, Euphoria & Dystopia: The Banff New Media Dialogues addresses the first wave of digital media. Her research, art and design practice is focused on data visualization, wearable technology and mobile media.