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Tiffany Holmes explores the potential of technology to promote
positive environmental stewardship. In-progress work includes
a public art commission for the National Center for Supercomputing
Applications. Here, Holmes is creating a sequence of experimental
animations that visualize real time carbon loads in this building. Other
public commissions include an award from the City of Chicago
to create a street-level video piece to raise awareness about
the unseen perils of drinking bottled water in a city with the
top-ranked tap in the USA.
Holmes has exhibited worldwide in these venues: J. Paul Getty
Museum in Los Angeles, National Academy of Sciences, Art Chicago,
Kunstmuseum, Lucerne, Switzerland, Siggraph, World@rt in
Denmark, Interaction ’01 in Japan, and ISEA
Nagoya. To promote her interdisciplinary
artistic practice, the Society
of Fellows at the University
of Michigan awarded Holmes a prestigious three-year fellowship.
She earned an Illinois Arts Council individual grant and
an Artists
In Labs residency in Switzerland. She
has been nominated for a Richard Driehaus Foundation award and
was nominated in 2002 for a Rockefeller New Media Fellowship.
Her work was recently selected by curator Michael Rush for inclusion
in the new edition of his book, Video Art.
Holmes maintains a blog, ecoviz.org to chronicle new developments
in her emerging practice of eco-visualization, the practice of
making hidden ecological information visible to the public. Holmes
is Associate Professor, and Chair of the Department of Art
and Technology Studies at the School of the Art
Institute of Chicago where
she teaches courses in interactivity, environmental art and the
history of electronic media.
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