Tamiko Thiel
Artworks exploring the intersection of space, place and cultural memory.
Plastocene Reef
Plastocene Reef
Plastocene Dreams
Plastocene Dreams
Vera Plastica
Waldwandel
ARpothecary's Garden
What you sow
Revolution and Return
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
Invasive Growth #IG001
Virtual Berlin Wall
Virtual Berlin Wall
Lend Me Your Face!
Lend Me Your Face!
Touching, Traces
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
Land of Cloud
Land of Cloud
Gardens of the Anthropocene
Gardens of the Anthropocene
Gardens of the Anthropocene
I am Sound
Shades of Absence
Shades of Absence
All Hail Damien Hirst!
Reign of Gold
Water Lilly Invasion
ReVisioning the Virtual Wall
ReVisioning the Virtual Wall
Metamorphoses
Metamorphoses
Metamorphoses
The Totem of Heavenly Wisdom
The Golden Seed
Beauty and the Beast: The Conjugal Bed
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NEW LOCATION - Tour and Talks:
Until end October 2025 - Belval/Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg
"Waldwandel/Forest Flux" (2023, with /p) is being shown as a mixed reality installation: visitors scan four 3 meter x 2 meter billboard images, arranged in Place des Hauts Fourneaux/Belval, to trigger a glade of trees in the space between. Part of "Hybrid Futures: Rhizomes, Meshworks and Alter-Ecologies" from
Elektron Luxembourg
I am giving two tours and talks:See highlighted links for details! :-)
17:30 on 08 Oct.: I will give a guided tour and talk - join us at at Place des Hauts Fourneaux, Belval. This is part of the "Women Leaders" series at the U Luxembourg.
11:00 on 09 Oct: I will give a pre-conference talk on 40 years of art and design with new technologies, as part of the Society for the History of Technology (SHOT) conference.
Waldwandel/Forest Flux AR installation in Place des Hauts Fourneaux, Belval/Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg. Belval is a former steel works in Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg, now converted to a stunning industrial monument site for the University of Luxembourg.
ONGOING:
Streaming Online @ CIFRA:
Our Time Is Also the Future: New Corporeality, curated by
Anika Meier (The Second-Guess)
Featuring:
Totem of Heavenly Wisdom
5-channel video sculpture, Tamiko Thiel, 1996 (shown as a 1-channel simulation)
Single channel simulation of the 5-channel video sculpture.
With artworks from:
Sougwen Chung * allapopp * Kika Nicolela * Carla Streckwall * Hermine Bourdin * Jess Tucker *Nancy Burson * Tabitha Swanson * OONA * Leah Schrager * Malpractice * Flynn *Franziska Ostermann * Margaret Murphy * CROSSLUCID * Boris Eldagsen * Claudia Hart * Tamiko Thiel * SOFF
Until End of October 2025: Burg Ranfels/Lower Bavaria
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BESTIA ET ANIMA", curated by Dr. Stefanie Baumann and Alexander Timtschenko
Plastocene Reef
1.5m wide x 2.7m tall augmented wall treatment, courtesy
Yvonne Hohner Contemporary Karlsruhe.
Plastocene Reef, installation view at Burg Ranfels Schoolhouse door, 2025
Plastocene Dreams
DIN A2 augmented fine art prints, courtesy
Yvonne Hohner Contemporary Karlsruhe.
Plastocene Dreams, installation view at Burg Ranfels, 2025
EXTENDED to 18 Jan. 2026 @ Chiostro del Bramante, Rome
"
FLOWERS. Art from the Renaissance to Artificial Intelligence"
Featuring:
Forest Flux/Waldwandel, Augmented Reality wall-sized livestream.
The exhibition "Flowers Forever," curated by Franziska Stöhr and Roger Diederen for the Kunsthalle Munich, now travels to Rome in collaboration with the curator Suzanne Landau. It features Waldwandel/Forest Flux as a large, wall-sized AR livestream projection!
Forest Flux/Waldwandel AR livestream large projection installation.
Installation view at the Chiostro del Bramante, Rome, Italy, 2025.
RECENT AWARDS:
SIGGRAPH 2024, 28 July – 1 August in Denver, USA
I will receive the
Distinguished Artist Award for Lifetime Achievement in Digital Art! I am still wobbly-kneed at being named to this
illustrious group, with so many true s/heros of mine! SIGGRAPH was so important for the beginning of my career as a media artist, in the early days when few art venues would dare to show VR artworks.
AWE XR Hall of Fame
I am honored to be part of the first cohort inducted into the newly formed
XR Hall of Fame, including many of my
s/heros and friends! Unfortunately I can't attend the AWE conferences this year due to prior committments elsewhere, I would have so loved to celebrate this together with you all! :-(
CAI Magazine's Top 20 Most Famous Digital Artists
According to the ranking algorithm on artfacts.net, I am
#10 on this list! Read their description of how they came up with the rankings. Grateful that I lived to see the words "famous" and "digital" and "artists" in the same sentence in art magazines! :-)