Tiffany Holmes


Tiffany Holmes is new media artist living in Chicago, IL.

Early life and education

Tiffany Holmes was born in Baltimore, MD. Her formal education includes: a PhD "Eco-visualization: Combining art and technology to reduce energy consumption," earned via the Znode, a collaboration between the Institute for Cultural Studies, University of the Arts, Zurich and the Arts Department, University of Plymouth, UK; an MFA Imaging and Digital Arts, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD; an MFA Painting, Maryland Institute, College of Art, Baltimore, MD; and a BA Art History with a minor in Environmental Studies, Williams College, Williamstown, MA.

Work

In her research and practice, Holmes explores the potential of technology to promote positive environmental stewardship. She coined the term "eco-visualization" in 2005. Her creative projects include a commission for the National Center for Supercomputing Applications where sequences of experimental animations visualize real time energy loads.
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 and a 2010 doctoral degree. She lectures and exhibits worldwide in these venues: Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, J. Paul Getty Museum 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 in 1998, Holmes has earned the Illinois Arts Council individual grant, an Artists-in-Labs residency award in Switzerland, and a 2010 Rhizome Commission.
Holmes is a professor in the Department of Art and Technology Studies at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Art Works