Lily Diaz

Lily Díaz is a designer, researcher, and educator working in the area of information technology, art, and design. She is experienced with interactive digital media, holography, photography, and video and has a particular interest in cultural heritage. She is Professor of Systems of Representation and Digital Cultural heritage and Head of Research in the Department of Media at Aalto University in Helsinki, Finland, where she also heads the Doctor of Art studies program and teaches information design and design research. She is responsible for national and international research projects in the area of digital media and cultural heritage. Among her research works in digital cultural heritage are: Digital Facsimile of the Map of Mexico 1550; Virtual Reality Installation of the Finnish Pavilion at the 1900 World fair in Paris and the Raisio Archaeology Archive.

She has 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 exhibited internationally in galleries such as the Royal Art Academy in London and the Gropius Bau Museum in Berlin and has been featured in journals such as Flash Art, Leonardo, Revista Internacional de Arte Lápiz, Amínima, and Computer Graphics. She is a frequent guest and contributor in conferences and journals in the area of design, information technology, and heritage, and has over 50 publications in scholarly compilations, including peer-reviewed journals and conference proceedings.

Publications

Digital Culture and E-Tourism: Technologies, Applications and Management Approaches
Digital Culture and E-Tourism: Technologies, Applications and Management Approaches
Miltiadis Lytras, Patricia Ordóñez de Pablos, Ernesto Damiani, Lily Diaz. © 2011. 270 pages.
In the digital world of the knowledge society, developing the infrastructures required to provide citizens with access to cultural content and tourism services demands a...