The Culture of Breath

(video documentation submitted to Noah Wardrip-Fruin)

Tiffany Holmes currently works as a research scholar and artist with the Michigan Society of Fellows at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. She will begin teaching at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in the Art and Technology Program in January 2001. With a diverse background in painting, animation, and biology, Holmes explores the intersection between artistic, biomedical, and linguistic modes of corporeal representation. She has written extensively about the combination of gestural painting with computer animation in recent work. Her article, "The Corporeal Stenographer: Language, Gesture, Cyberspace" was published in the fall of 1999 in Leonardo . She has exhibited and discussed her work at the Digital Salon ’99 in New York and Madrid, the Viper New Media Festival in Switzerland, the International Symposium on the History of Neuroscience in Zurich, Siggraph ’99, Next 1.0 in Sweden, Consciousness Reframed in Wales and at World@rt in Denmark. Her interactive installation, Nosce Te Ipsum, was recently featured at Siggraph 2000 and was pictured as a result in the New York Times on August 1, 2000.