Event: Artist Tiffany Holmes’ Pet Ambitions—An exhibition of three new installations: Follow the Mouse, computer, monitor, printer, spy camera, and live mouse, 2002. According to Holmes, "Follow the Mouse" is a common practice used by computer programmers to make an object trail the mouse pointer around the monitor. The installation portrays an office workspace where the mouse’s meanderings produce the layered shapes that change, second by second, on the screen.

Fishbowl, video projection, spy cameras, and aquarium with goldfish, 2002

Bearhunt, mixed media with stuffed animals, 2002

Date: Aug. 29 – Sept. 27, 2002 (The gallery will be closed Labor Day, Sept. 2); Aug. 29 (Thursday): Artist’s Lecture by Holmes: 4-5 p.m. Opening Reception from 5-6 p.m. for both Holmes’ installation and David S. East’s exhibition ‘from the 4 ounce’ which opens simultaneously in the Wakeley Gallery.

Gallery Hours: Monday-Friday: 12-4 p.m.; Tuesday evening: 7-9 p.m.; Saturday and Sunday: 1-4 p.m.

Location: The Merwin Gallery, Ames School of Art, Illinois Wesleyan University, 6 Ames Plaza West, Bloomington

Admission: Free and open to the public

Background:

Tiffany Holmes, who is currently an assistant professor of art and technology at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, is a multimedia artist whose work explores the relationship between digital technology and culture with an emphasis on technologies of seeing. Her artwork blends traditional materials and new media (computer technology, and video, in large-scale interactive installations.

Holmes, who has a diverse academic background in painting, animation, and biology, lectures and exhibits widely in international and national venues, including Digital Salon ’99 in New York and Madrid, International Symposium on the History of Neuroscience in Zurich, the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles and Interaction 2001 at IAMAS in Japan.

For additional information about Holmes, go to: www.artic.edu/~tholme

Contact: For additional information about the exhibition, contact Jennifer Lapham, director of Merwin and Wakeley Galleries at (309) 556-3391 or email at jlapham@titan.iwu.edu or fax at (309) 556-3976.