Tamiko Thiel

Tamiko Thiel


Artworks exploring the intersection of space, place and cultural memory.


ARpothecary's Garden
What you sow
Revolution and Return
Waldwandel/Forest Flux
Waldwandel/Forest Flux
Waldwandel/Forest Flux
Juliettoo
Anthropocene Daze
Enter the Plastocene @ MEET Milan
Enter the Plastocene @ MEET Milan
Enter the Plastocene @ MEET Milan
Atmos Sphaerae
Atmos Sphaerae
Atmos Sphaerae
Enter the Plastocene @ ARTLAB Gleis1 Regensburg
Enter the Plastocene @ ARTLAB Gleis1 Regensburg
Enter the Plastocene @ ARTLAB Gleis1 Regensburg
ReWildAR
ReWildAR
ReWildAR
Virtual Berlin Wall
Virtual Berlin Wall
Sponge Space Trash Takeover
Lend Me Your Face!
Lend Me Your Face!
My Identity Is This Expanse
My Identity Is This Expanse
My Identity Is This Expanse
Touching, Traces
Suspended Spring
Suspended Spring
Strange Growth
Nothing of him that doth fade...
Nothing of him that doth fade...
Evolution of Fish
Evolution of Fish
Evolution of Fish
Evolution of Fish
Lotus Meditation
Unexpected Growth
Unexpected Growth
Unexpected Growth
CM 2 in MoMA
CM 2 in MoMA
Wild Gardens
Wild Gardens
Wild Gardens
Wild Gardens
Goldsegen
Goldsegen
Treasures of Seh Rem
Treasures-of-Seh-Rem
Land of Cloud
Land of Cloud
El Barrio is home!
El Barrio is home!
Gardens of the Anthropocene
Gardens of the Anthropocene
Gardens of the Anthropocene
I am Sound
Shades of Absence
Shades of Absence
Shades of Absence
Shades of Absence
All Hail Damien Hirst!
Reign of Gold
Invisible Istanbul
Transformation: Lehel
Transformation: Lehel
Transformation: Lehel
Transformation: Lehel
Water Lilly Invasion
Biomer Skelters
Clouding Green
ARt Critic Face Matrix


UPCOMING:

Opening 09 Feb 2024 @ Ludwig Museum, Budapest, Hungary


Vera Plastica
Generative AR installation, Tamiko Thiel and /p, 2024
Commissioned by BROICH Digital Art Museum via DAM Projects Berlin

Premiering in "À la Recherche de Vera Molnar," with works by generative art pioneer Vera Molnar and homages by internationally acclaimed artists. Curated by Richard Castelli and Zsófia Máté, with generous support from BROICH Digital Art Museum and Stiftung für Kunst und Kultur.

Opening: 18:00 on Friday 09 February - Exhibition: 10 February - 14 April 2024
Ludwig Museum – Museum of Contemporary Art, Budapest


Vera Plastica generative AR installation, Tamiko Thiel and /p, 2022. Left: visualization of 3D AR view; Right: 2D grid view


Vera Plastica is a generative augmented reality (AR) installation inspired by Vera Molnar's 2D generative grid compositions, with each grid element an algorithmic variation in form and color. We extend her process into the 3rd and 4th dimensions of space and time, creating a dialog between a 2D, top down view, shown on a horizontal monitor, and a 3D spatial, perspective view of the entire animated AR installation, shown on a large wall monitor and in visitors' own smartphones. Our basic unit is also 3D: a (virtual) plastic bottle, symbolizing the plastic waste we are dumping into our oceans. The artwork reveals how viewpoint shapes our perception: the colorful circles on the 2D monitor are seen in 3D to be „sprouts“ of a huge „plastokelp forest“ expanding out from the horizontal monitor to engulf all visitors in the galley space.

Opening 16 February @ Naturkundemuseum Bayern mit Biotopia Lab, Munich


Waldwandel/Forest Flux
AR installation, Tamiko Thiel and /p, 2023

Exhibition: „"Bestäuber – Kleine Helden der Natur" ("Pollinators - Little Heros of Nature")
Dates Extended: 16 February - End of May, 2024
Location: Naturkundemuseum Bayern mit Biotopia Lab, Munich

We are sad to see Biotopia director Michael John Gorman leave Munich, and wish him all the best at the MIT Museum! Many thanks to Michael John/Biotopia for helping commission "Waldwandel/Forest Flux." We are happy to be able to show the AR installation at Biotopia as a "farewell exhibit" before he moves to MIT, Tamiko's old alma mater, as director of the MIT Museum.


From left: /p, Tamiko, Michael John Gorman, with AR of rose chafer beetles pollinating wild service tree blossoms.
At the premiere of Waldwandel/Forest Flux in "Flowers Forever" @ Kunsthalle Munich, 2023

Opening 07 March 2024 @ King's College, London, UK


The Travels of Mariko Horo
Interactive VR installation, Tamiko Thiel, 2006

Panel discussion & opening event: 07 March, 6:30pm
Location: Great Hall, King's Building, Strand, King's College London

Exhibition: GLOW: ILLUMINATING INNOVATION
Dates: 08 March - 20 April 2024
Location: Arcade at Bush House, Strand, King's College London


"Avogadori in the Court of the Last Judgement" scene from "The Travels of Mariko Horo" VR installation, Tamiko Thiel, 2006


Additional King's College exhibit:


Curiosity Cabinet: (171 Strand) Featuring two of my original WEARABLE ART designs:
"Travels of Mariko Horo" from Bobblehaus NY - * - Connection Machine CM-1 t-shirt


Left: "Travels of Mariko Horo" Bobblehaus New York. Right: Connection Machine CM-1 t-shirt



Opening 27 or 28 March (TBA) @ MIX Center, Arizona State U, Mesa, AZ, USA


Enter the Plastocene
Immersive AR installation, Tamiko Thiel and /p, 2021/2022

Exhibition: Enter the Plastocene @ MIX Center ASU
Dates: 28 March - 10 April 2024
Location: Media and Immersive eXperience (MIX) Center, Arizona State University, Mesa, Arizona, USA.

We are delighted to exhibit Enter the Plastocene again as an AR livestream on the MIX Center lobby's 32-foot long monumental display, enabling visitors to experience the environment we are creating for ocean dwellers: a world composed of plastic garbage.


Enter the Plastocene as shown at MEET Digital Culture Center, Milan, 2022


ENDING SOON:

Ending 03 March 2024 @ Bobblehaus, New York


Tamiko Thiel solo show
Videos, prints and wearable art from the Travels of Mariko Horo work series

Bobblehaus New York


ONGOING:

Until 12 May 2024, at the 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)


Revolution and Return
Revolution and Return, interactive AR installation, Tamiko Thiel and /p, 2023.
At the Paulskirche, Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Photos: Ben Livne Weitzman


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.

Until 01 Oct 2024 @ 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.






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.


#JulietToo, AR installation, Tamiko Thiel and /p, 2022. Marienplatz Munich, next to the Old City Hall/Toy Museum

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.

PRESS:

Danielle Newnham Podcast: "Interviews with tech founders and innovators" just published an interview about formative aspects of my childhood, and working with collegues on the Connection Machine.





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



KUNSTFORUM International #290 "Mixed Realities", Editor Pamela Scorzin, interview pages 106 - 125.