Aalto University School of Art and Design

Faculty Member, Media

Other Affiliations: Swinburne University of Technology, Faculty of Design

Professor

Media Lab Helsinki

Thesis Title: Art, Fact, and Artifact Production, Design Research and Multidisciplinary Collaboration

About

Lily Díaz is professor and leader of the Systems of Representation research group in the Aalto University, Media Lab.

Her research work includes projects in areas such as information visualization, design and implementation of digital archives and interface design. She has also designed tools such as Image ImaNote (Image and Map Annotation Notebook) and SOL (Soft Ontology Layer).

As an educator, she has developed and implemented curricula in visualization (Dynamic Visual Design, DVD) for the Master of Arts program at the Media Lab Helsinki. She has also received awards for her work in concept design including 1st prize in the Nabi Digital Storytelling Award organized in 2004 by Art Center Nabi in Korea in collaboration with UNESCO, and a Special Mention of the Jury in the Nordic Digital Excellence in Museums Award (NODEM) in 2004. Her art and design work has been published in diverse international journals such as Flash Art, Leonardo, Revista Internacional de Arte Lápiz, and Computer Graphics.

She was recently appointed Adjunct Professor at Swinburne University of Technology, Faculty of Design, in Melbourne, Australia.

In her spare time, she is interested in gardening.

More information:

http://sysrep.uiah.fi

https://reseda.taik.fi/Taik/jsp/taik/Researcher.jsp?id=31035