Elisa Sereno-Janz graduated in 2014 with distinction from the BFA program at the Alberta College of Art and Design in Calgary, Canada. In the year 2010, after 27 years as a professional violinist and private violin and fiddle teacher, Elisa returned to school to study for a degree in Fine Art. She enjoys working with a variety of materials, including painting, fibre and new media. In her new media project Fiddle Lights, she synthesizes her music with her art practice. She presented her paper FiddleLights: Kinetic Signatures - Visualisations of the Bow Hand Movements in Fiddle Tunes and Contemporary Violin Performance at the British Computer Society’s conference, Electronic Visualisation and the Arts in London, England in July 2013. It was peer reviewed and is published by the British Computer Society. Her paper The FiddleLights Project- An Artist’s Recording of Bow Hand Movements in Fiddle Tunes was also presented at the North Atlantic Fiddle Convention 2012 at the University of Ulster, Northern Ireland, and is pending publication, She will be presenting her paper The FiddleLights Project: Stylistic Documentation through Kinetic Portraits at the North Atlantic Fiddle Convention 2015 at the Cape Breton University, Nova Scotia. She is the recipient of several awards, including a Calgary Arts Development Artist Opportunity Grant (20150 and the Stanford Perrot Innovative Project Award (2012).