NEW PRESS:

KUNSTFORUM International: 20 page (!) interview in guest editor Pamela Scorzin's "Mixed Realities" volume. (In German - contact me for English)

Christiane Paul's Digital Art, 4th edition, features 3 of my works (pdf excerpt).

CLOSING 27 AUGUST:

"Flowers Forever" @ Kunsthalle Munich

Waldwandel/Forest Flux
AR Installation (with /p), 2023





Waldwandel / Forest Flux was commissioned by the Kunsthalle Munich for the exhibit "Flowers Forever" (curated by Franziska Stöhr), BIOTOPIA Museum of Natural History, and the Bavarian State Forest Enterprise.

Sponsored by generous grants from the Bavarian State Forest Enterprise, and from Sundance Institute Interdisciplinary Program with support from Unity Charitable Fund/Tides Foundation.

Official City of Munich Art in Public Space:

#JulietToo
AR installation, Tamiko Thiel, 2022
Sited @ the Juliet Capulet sculpture in Marienplatz

Commissioned for the ARORA / #MakeUsVisible / denkFEmale Munich AR virtual monuments exhibit, 2022. All artworks are visible around the world as well - follow links on website.




On July 6th, Munich's Deputy Mayor Katrin Habenschaden officially "unveiled" a plaque on the pedestal of the Juliet Capulet statue, with a QR code to launch my AR enhancement #JulietToo.



Created by sculptor Nereo Constantini to honor the tragic, 13 year old heroine of Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet", the sculpture was donated to Munich in 1974 by its Partner City Verona, Italy. In the wake of #MeToo there has been much discussion of the tourist practice of rubbing (and licking) the patina off of Juliet's right breast "to bring luck".

To contribute to the discussion, #JulietToo surrounds the Juliet sculpture with her body positive avatars as amazon and as Viking shield maiden, warrior women who bared their breasts in battle as a sign of strength, rather than submission.

ONGOING:

Until 29 October: AR Biennial, NRW-Forum, Düsseldorf, Germany

What You Sow (Tamiko Thiel and /p)
Interactive AR installation, 2023

Premiering in the 2nd AR Biennale "Hybrid Nature" - (PRESS)
NRW-Forum Düsseldorf, 13 May – 29 October 2023




O ye Denizens of the Deep! Plastic waste falls like mana from the heavens. Touch each precious seed to grow a bountiful garden of garbage, that shall be for all eternity. For what you sow, so shall you reap.

Until Oct 2023 @ EVOLUON, Eindhoven, Holland

Lend Me Your Face participatory deepfake AI, Tamiko Thiel and /p, 2020
A person encounter with how AI can manipulate and control your own face.

In the exhibit "RetroFuture" curated by Ruben Baart.

Until 2024 May 12, near Paulskirche, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Revolution and Return, by Tamiko Thiel and /p
Interactive AR installation, 2023

In "DEMO-" AR exhibit, from wava.ar and Netzwerk Paulkirche (until 2024)




Silver coins of the German states, carrying the profiles of their respective German monarchs and symbols of their personal power, fall from the sky. With a touch you can transform them into the founding constitutional documents of the first unified German nation-state, which forced them to give up control of their realms in 1848.

But what happens when gold ducats of the powerful Prussian King and Austrian Emperor begin to rain down from above?

NOTES: On the first, failed attempt at democracy in Germany, in 1848.

PRESS:

Unexpected Growth is featured in the new edition of art trader Michael Findlay's "The Value of Art," and in its glowing review by the editor of the German art magazine Monopol! :-)