Holmes exhibits her kinetic installation “We can’t swim forever” at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei in The Innovationists: The Spectacular Journey of New Media Art curated by Joel Kwong.

The Innovationists – The Spectacular Journey of New Media Art

When: 2 Feb – 14 Apr 2013
Where: MOCA Taipei-1F

In the fall of 2012, Holmes will exhibit five of her photographs in Works on Water, an exhibition curated by Patricia Watts. Works on Water is a group exhibition featuring 130 works by approximately 30 artists including Tiffany Holmes, David Maisel, Sant Khalsa, Kim Stringfellow, Brandon Ballengee, Basia Irland, and many others.

SAIC faculty members Tiffany Holmes, Christopher Baker, and France Cadet are exhibiting work in a show called Crossing Wires, curated by Barbara Blades and Debra Tolchinsky at the Evanston Art Center which opens on April 15, 2012.

Technology has traditionally been used to make what functions function faster, easier, and more efficiently. We expect computers, robots, and machines to continue to take over the performance of chores and ramp up the production of goods. But what happens when technology is used for the nonfunctional, to make what is functional less functional? What happens when technology, especially high technology, is used for art or for play?

Show was reviewed in the most recent ArtLetter.

I created a new piece, We can’t swim forever, for the window of the Jean Albano Gallery—the opening is Friday November 4, 2011.  This kinetic installation made from electronic cake turntables, recycled kitchen and household materials is an indirect tribute to the plight of the polar bear, a marine mammal that lives primarily in the imaginations of urban dwellers.

Location: Jean Albano Gallery, 215 W. Superior, Chicago IL 60654

Opening; Friday November 4, 2010 5:30pm  to 7pm

We can't swim forever (2011)

A small assortment of my solar-powered kinetic sculptures were on view at the Jean Albano Gallery during the Art Chicago event from April 28th to May 2nd.

Solar sculptures run under the spotlights of Art Chicago

Holmes will give an artist’s lecture in conjunction with the University of San Francisco’s Davies lecture series titled: “Envisioning the Post-Carbon City: Creative Strategies for Climate Change”.

Watershed: Art, Activism, and Community Engagement runs January 28 – February 25, 2011 at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee’s Union Art Gallery.

This exhibition, organized by Nicolas Lampert and Raoul Deal, addresses the shifting ecological and political dimensions of water in Milwaukee and the Great Lakes Basin, and relates them to similar issues around the world.

Water is the most critical resource on earth. It has traditionally been held in the public commons, but is now being privatized by multinational corporations at a frightening pace. Water has become big business and the struggle over who controls water — corporations or communities — will likely define many of the social justice movements, political decisions, and wars of the 21st Century.

Watershed features installations by Sweet Water Organics, Colleen Ludwig, Lane Hall and Lisa Moline, Raoul Deal, and Nicolas Lampert; Prints by students at the Bruce Guadalupe Middle School and the Walnut Way Conservation Corp in Milwaukee; Films by Laura Klein that document public intervention projects by Nance Klehm, Jesse Graves, Sarah Lewison, Amy Mall and Sherwin Ovid, Tiffany Holmes, Maria Cristina Tavera and Xavier Tavera, Katie Martin Meurer, Jenny Plevin and Al Westbrook, Ximena Sosa and Cristian Muñoz, Deal, and Lampert.

Watershed also features a series of Thursday night presentations in February by Milwaukee-based artists, scientists, and community activists, and a presentation by the Brooklyn-based environmental artist Betsy Damon.

More information: http://watershedmke.wordpress.com/

Life Under the Sun is a solo exhibition by Tiffany Holmes which aims to bring the viewer into a conversation about the links between art, technology and the environment. The exhibition opens on November 8th and runs through January 23. The opening reception is November 11 from 7:30 – 9:00 p.m. at the Sonnenschein Gallery in the Durand Art Institute.

Drinking the Lake (2010) by Tiffany Holmes

The exhibition features a new piece called Drinking the Lake, a large photograph that visually describes the rising and falling water levels in Lake Michigan over the last 150 years.  Other works that are on display include: darkSky, World Offset, solarCircus, and Fresh.  There is a related exhibition at the Deerpath Gallery based on workshops the artist conducted with Lake Forest students on October 20 and 26.

The press release for the upcoming exhibition can be found here.

Life Under the Sun is part of the John and Katherine Covington Exhibition Series.

Tiffany Holmes will lead a digital imaging workshop at Lake Forest College tomorrow in conjunction with her upcoming solo exhibition at the Sonnenschein Gallery that opens on November 8, 2010.  The workshop challenges students to use a camera to document every item they “consume”—that is, all food and beverage items as well as anything they purchase in a week.  Workshop creations will be printed and displayed in November in the student gallery.

Students who are taking the course can download the materials here.

Workshop handout can be accessed here.

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 of the Garage Into the World, a large exhibition that is part of the 2010 01SJ Biennial curated by Steve Dietz and Jaime Austin (http://01sj.org/).

Holmes’ 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. Outdoors, a miniature city of the future displays the creative potentials of solar power. This imaginary world is constructed from recycled materials, various electronics, and solar panels.

solarCircus: DIY Solar Sculptures