Lily Díaz works with the language and with images. Her interests focus on the areas of history, myth, and representation.
In 1985, as artist-in-residence at the Museum of Holography in New York City, she produced a holographic installation piece, A Tribute to Spiderman. During 1987, as part of a residency at Film/Video Arts (New York City), she created Afterimages, a VideoPoem. The video uses poetry to produce an impression of the bilingual/bi-cultural mind of the Puerto Rican experience. The piece has been exhibited widely and is part of the anthology Latin American Video during the Eighties of the Instituto de Cooperación Iberoamericana (ICI), in Madrid, Spain.
She received a Fulbright fellowship for 1990-91, to conduct research for A Simultaneous View of History, an interactive piece about science in 16th Century America and Spain. This database gathers information about scientific techniques utilized by the Europeans to visualize the newly acquired lands in the American continent.
In 1994, she was commissioned by the Arts Festival of Atlanta to create @rt Auction an interactive computer art piece that explores the topic of how price informs our perception of art.
She has taught Design at the Pratt Institute of Design in Manhattan, and Multimedia at the Universidad de Guadalajara in México. She has lectured in Finland, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Spain and the United States, and has also researched and published work on the subject of Pictorial Space in Computer Art. Most recently she received a Young Researcher's award from the center for International Mobility (CIMO) in Finland. Currently she is pursuing doctoral studies at the Media Lab of the University of Art and Design in Helsinki, Finland.