Tiffany Holmes is an artist and educator whose work explores the potential of technology to promote positive environmental stewardship. Recent projects include a commission for the National Center for Supercomputing Applications where experimental animations visualize real time energy loads. Her essay detailing this work, “Eco-visualization: Combining art and technology to reduce energy consumption,” won Best Paper at Creativity and Cognition 2007 and a recent doctoral degree. Holmes has earned many awards: Michigan Society of Fellows research fellowship, Illinois Arts Council individual grant, an Artists-in-Labs residency in Switzerland, and a 2010 Rhizome Commission. Holmes is Associate Professor, and former Chair of the Department of Art and Technology Studies at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago where she teaches courses in computer programming for artists, interaction design, eco-art, and the social web. She will become Interim Dean of Undergraduate Studies in August 2011.
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