Space available in toy hacking workshops

If you are anywhere in the vicinity of San Jose, CA in September please come participate in a solar toy hacking workshop called DIY Solar Sculptures.  There is still space available.  Sign up online here.  Below is a little more about the overall event…hoping for mostly sunny days. Tiffany Holmes will be showing solarCircus in Out... [Read more]

solarCircus at 01SJ Biennial

From September 4-25, 2010, solarCircus will be exhibited at the 01SJ Biennial in South Hall.  solarCircus (2009-2010) is an interdisciplinary platform for eco-dialogue about the future of renewable energy in urban spaces. Inside South Hall, visitors can browse a resource library, hack a solar toy, and experiment with solar cell construction.... [Read more]

Fresh 3.0 at Watershed

The FRESH project attempts to raise awareness about the high cost of bottled water in the USA, a country that has very good quality tap water. The FRESH 3.0 project is a street level intervention that invites visitors to examine computer generated animation composed of fantasy landscapes appropriated from the imagery from bottled water labels... [Read more]

Your face is safe with me at Artopolis

Your face is safe with me is a site-specific animation piece which uses imagery garnered from the Merchandise Mart’s surveillance camera system. This unique work was sponsored by Art Chicago and the Jean Albano Gallery.  Your face is safe with me will be located adjacent to the Partisan show gallery space on the 12th floor of the Mart... [Read more]

Holmes presents solarCircus at Solar 2010

I will be delivering a presentation for the first time at the ASES National Solar Conference on May 21, 2010 in Phoenix, AZ.  My talk will profile solarCircus, my new project in promoting renewable energy awareness via art made with hacked solar toys. My solarCircus research and practice will be featured in a forum titled “Think Like an... [Read more]

Holmes speaking at CAA 2010

At the 2010 College Art Association Conference, Holmes will deliver a talk titled “Beyond Eco-Art: Twenty-First-Century Eco-visualization.”  The presentation is part of the “Intersections of Art and Design” panel which will be chaired by Debra Riley Parr (Columbia College Chicago).  All details follow below. Time... [Read more]

Holmes recommended for PhD award

On January 19th, Tiffany Holmes successfully defended her PhD dissertation “Eco-visualization: Combining art and technology to reduce energy consumption,” at the University of Plymouth in the UK.  Examiners included Malcolm Miles, Professor of Cultural Theory from the University of Plymouth, and Tim Cooper, Head of the Center... [Read more]

See darkSky in Hong Kong at Microwave

Holmes will exhibit her interactive electricity visualization, darkSky (2009) and her generative animation FRESH 3.0 at the 13th annual Microwave Festival in Hong Kong located in the Hong Kong City Hall. The group exhibition, titled Nature Transformer will feature the work of Holmes as well as Natalie Jeremijenko (USA), Colin Ives (Canada),... [Read more]

Holmes awarded 2010 Rhizome commission

Tiffany Holmes was awarded a 2010 Rhizome commission on June 29th to produce solarCircus.  The solarCircus project is a collection of related creative activities: hands-on workshops, nomadic solar-powered urban interventions, and online performances that explore sun-powered art.  Interns TC Eley and Real Chen will begin working with Holmes... [Read more]

HPAC panel to discuss public art + tech

Join me on Thursday June 25th to discuss the ways in which technology has changed public art; has it become a burden or a blessing, and where will public art go next? My fellow panelists will include Hamza Walker, Daniel Sauter, and Moderator Nathan Mason. These free events are presented as part of HPAC’s 70 Days for 70 Years anniversary celebration. Public... [Read more]

Visiting Washington University

On May 7 and 8, I had a wonderful opportunity to participate in year-end critiques for the Sam Fox School of Art at Washington University in St. Louis.  Thanks to my good friend Professor Patricia Olynyk for the invitation, and to my fellow jurors David Salow, owner of David Salow Gallery and Charlotte Eyerman, Curator of Modern Art at SLAM... [Read more]

Vote SolarCircus today

My Rhizome proposal for my summer project, solarCircus, has made it to the final voting round.  It is one of 25 proposals, and Rhizome typically funds 9.  So I have a better than 33% shot of funding. If you are a Rhizome member, please help me and PARTICIPATE IN THIS DEMOCRATIC PROCESS, i.e. rank solarCircus #1.  There are tons of interesting... [Read more]

See FRESH 3.0 and darkSky at Art Chicago

Animation still, FRESH 3.0 (2009) If you are in the Windy City please drop by the Jean Albano Gallery at Art Chicago this weekend (Booth 549, 12th floor) at the Merchandise Mart.  There is tons of interesting art to examine, including FRESH 3.0–a new version of a dynamic animation that shows scrolling unnatural landscapes of bottled... [Read more]

Holmes lecture at MCA Chicago on April 21st

darksky (2009) by Tiffany Holmes at the MCA Chicago I’m thrilled that darkSky opened last Friday to a huge crowd.  Over 2000 people attended First Friday at the MCA and of that group approximately 500 made it into the 12 x 12 space to turn off some bulbs.  More images of the installation will be posted shortly.  Come and see the artist’s... [Read more]

DIY Solar Sculptures at NIU

The March 17th DIY Solar Sculptures workshop at Northern Illinois University was fairly well-attended considering it was the first 70-degree day in Illinois since the fall of 2008. About ten people attended and sweated to get their solar powered walking king crabs together in less than an hour. The workshop was part of a celebration of Women’s... [Read more]

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