Tiffany Holmes

Tiffany Holmes was born in 1964 in Baltimore, Maryland. Her formal education includes: a PhD (2004–2010) "Eco-visualization: Combining art and technology to reduce energy consumption,"[2] from the Arts Department at University of Plymouth.[3] Additionally she has an MFA degree (1996–1999) in Imaging and Digital Arts, University of Maryland, Baltimore County;[4] an MFA degree (1992–1996) in Painting, Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA); and a BA degree (1986–1990, cum laude) Art History with a minor in Environmental Studies, Williams College.[3]

In her research and practice, Holmes explores the potential of technology to promote positive environmental stewardship. She coined the term "eco-visualization" in 2005.[5][6] Her creative projects include a commission for the National Center for Supercomputing Applications where sequences of experimental animations visualize real time energy loads.[7]

Her paper detailing this work, “Eco-visualization: Combining art and technology to reduce energy consumption,” won a Best Paper award at Creativity and Cognition 2007[8] and a 2010 doctoral degree. She lectures and exhibits worldwide in these venues: Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago,[9] J. Paul Getty Museum[10] in Los Angeles, 01SJ Biennial, SIGGRAPH 2000, Worldart in Denmark, Interaction ’01 in Japan, ISEA Nagoya. A recipient of the Michigan Society of Fellows research fellowship [11] in 1998, Holmes has earned the Illinois Arts Council individual grant, an Artists-in-Labs residency award in Switzerland, and a 2010 Rhizome Commission.[12]

Holmes is a professor in the Department of Art and Technology Studies at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

• We can't swim forever (2011) [13]
• darkSky (2009)
• World Offset (2008)
• fishbowl (2005)
• Floating Point (2004)
• Follow the Mouse (2001)

• Socializing Blogs, a Guide for Beginners (2011) Learning Through Digital Media: Experiments in Technology and Pedagogy, editor, 27-34.
• Beyond Eco-Art: 21st century Eco-visualization (2010) Transdiscourse: Volume 1: Mediated Environments, Springer Press.
• Searching for stories in the sea of data: Promoting environmental stewardship though ecovisualization (2007) Journal of Museum Education, Volume 32, Number 3 / Fall 2007: 273-284.
• Eco-visualization: combining art and technology to reduce energy consumption (2007) Proceedings of the 6th ACM SIGCHI conference on Creativity & Cognition, Washington, DC, USA, SESSION: Tools, media and environments: 153-162.
• Environmental Awareness though Eco-visualization: Combining Art and Technology To Promote Sustainability. Reconstruction 6.3: Studies in Contemporary Culture on “Water: Resources & Discourses,” summer 2006.
• Floating Point: A Creative Visualization of Water Quality, residency report, in Artists-In-Labs: Processes of Inquiry, editor, Jill Scott, Springer Press, 2006.
• The Mighty Mouse: Communicating addiction research through computer art, Intelligent Agent, thread: biotech/transgenics, Winter-Summer 2003, http://www.intelligentagent.com/.
• Arcade Classics Spawn Art? Current Trends in the Art Game Genre. Fine Arts Forum, 2003.
• What do computers eat? Teaching beginners to think critically about technology and art, in Computers and Graphics, Elsevier, June 2003, Volume 27, No. 3, 361-368.
• Performing Virtual Dissection, in Art, Technology, Consciousness, London: Intellect Books, 2000.
• The Corporeal Stenographer: Language, Gesture, Cyberspace, published in conjunction with catalogue of international traveling exhibit, The Digital Salon. Leonardo Almanac: International Resources in Art, Science, Technology, Volume 32, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1999.

• Artist website: http://tiffanyholmes.com/
• Artist project: http://solarcircus.org/
• Artist video documentation: https://vimeo.com/user6397169