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 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, as well as a 2010 Rhizome commission. 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 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.