Sara Diamond to lecture at the Beall Center

The Beall Center and Cal-IT(2)
Presents
The Hybrid Media Lecture Series
Inaugural Lecture

Sara Diamond:
The Art and Science of Interdisciplinary Collaboration

Thursday, March 11
12:00noon-1:30pm
HIB 135
University of California Irvine

Free and open to the public

Sara Diamond, Director of Research, Banff Centre and Artistic Director, Media and Visual Arts, Banff New Media Institute, will discuss her ongoing work in the area of interdisciplinary collaboration, focusing on her current artistic practice, the CodeZebra collaborative software and performance environment. Drawn from Ms. Diamonds considerable experience in facilitating a wide range of practices that merge art, technology and science, this project explores the ways that individuals and groups can effectively collaborate across disciplines, drawing from collaboration studies. The CodeZebra suite currently includes performances, collaboration software, wearable and ubiquitous technology designs, and continues to expand into new domains. Diamond will connect this project to general research in art and science collaboration and present a few examples of Code Zebra implementation. Presentations of CodeZebra have included Digital Bodies, Ludwig Museum, Budapest, Hungary, as a dance, text and software performance; Future Physical, UK, as part of dance club and conference events and at the DEAF Festival, Rotterdam, Netherlands as a habituation cage event, locking up artists and scientists with two way moderated streams; and a conference about CodeZebra, role-playing and visualization at University of Turku, Finland.

Sara Diamond is the Director of Research and Artistic Director, Media, Visual Arts/Executive Producer, Television and New Media at The Banff Centre for the Arts. As Artistic Director of the Banff Centre New Media Institute, Ms. Diamond has headed up one of the top international centers for the development and dissemination of new media arts practices, with a special emphasis on interdisciplinary and inter-cultural collaboration and discourse. She is an award winning television and new media producer/director, video artist, curator, critic, researcher, teacher and artistic director. Her video installation and video works reside in the collections of the National Gallery of Canada, Vancouver Art Gallery, and Museum of Modern Art, NYC, and many international galleries, universities and colleges. She was honored by a retrospective at the National Gallery of Canada in 1991. She is also a theorist and public speaker and has recently published essays on new media curatorial practice, science and art aesthetics, collaboration and new media, collective authorship and reviews of new media exhibitions with Routledge, MIT Press, and other presses, as well as Flash Art. She is the founding Editor-in-Chief of Horizon Zero and is a member of the Editorial Board of Leonardo and Convergence, peer review publications in new media. In 2002, Diamond won Canadian New Media Educator of the Year (Canadian New Media Awards) and Women of Vision (Women in Film and Television and Wired Women).