IMDA Welcome Event
With Special Guest Alumna Dr. Tiffany Holmes, SAIC
IMDA Welcome Event
Featuring IMDA alumna Dr. Tiffany Holmes’99, IMDA MFA
Friday, October 14th, 2016, 12:00 – 2:00 p.m.
PAHB 102
Dr. Tiffany Holmes’99, IMDA MFA, is the the Outstanding Alumna of the Year for Visual and Performing Arts. Dr. Holmes is Dean of Undergraduate Studies and a professor in the Art and Technology Studies Department at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Holmes’ research and practice explores the potential of technology to promote positive environmental stewardship. Recent projects include 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 and a 2010 doctoral degree. She lectures and exhibits worldwide in venues including the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, 01SJ Biennial, Siggraph 2000, World@rt in Denmark, and ISEA Nagoya. A recipient of the Michigan Society of Fellows research fellowship in 1998, Holmes has earned the Illinois Arts Council individual grant, an Artists-in-Labs residency award in Switzerland, and a 2010 Rhizome Commission.
Light refreshments will be served.
The is a free event, open to the public.