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.