CREDITS

This blog is maintained by Tiffany Holmes, the current instructor for the Wired Writing: Culture and Community on the WWW.

When she is not blogging on her own blog, ecoviz.org, Tiffany is trying to figure out how to use art and technology to promote environmental stewardship.

Recent work includes 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. Other commissions include the creation of a street-level video installation to raise awareness about the perils of drinking bottled water in Chicago, a city with the top-ranked tap in the USA. In March of 2008, Holmes launched “World Offset,” a website that invites viewers to submit carbon offset commitments to highlight the problems of curtailment-based solutions to global warming. In April of 2009, Holmes will premiere a new interactive electricity visualization at Chicago’s Museum of Contemporary Art in a UBS 12 x 12 New Artists/New Work exhibition in April 2008.

Holmes exhibits worldwide: J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, National Academy of Sciences, Art Chicago, Viper in Switzerland, SIGGRAPH, Interaction ’01 in Japan, ISEA. A recipient of the Michigan Society of Fellows award in 1998, Holmes has earned the Illinois Arts Council individual grant and an Artists-in-Labs residency award in Switzerland. Nominated in 2007 for a Richard Driehaus Foundation award, Holmes’ work was selected by curator Michael Rush for inclusion in the new edition of his book, Video Art (2007).

Check out this year’s Wired Writing Syllabus:wiredwriting_2008_syll