Projects
AR / VR / AI Installations
Plastocene Reef
AR enhanced wall installation.Tamiko Thiel, 2025
Photo: Yvonne Hohner Contemporary
@ Art Karlsruhe 2025, Germany
Plastocene Dreams
AR enhanced print series.Tamiko Thiel, 2024
Yvonne Hohner Contemporary
Karlsruhe, Germany
Photo: Wolfgang Theuner
Vera Plastica
generative AR artwork.Tamiko Thiel and /p, 2023
"À la Recherche de Vera Molnar" Ludwig Múzeum Budapest
Elemental Spaces
Mixed Reality artwork.Tamiko Thiel, Work in Progress
With financial support from FFF Bayern and the Bavarian State Ministry for Digital Affairs.
ISEA 2024 Festival: "Everywhen"
QUT Museum, Meanjin (Brisbane), Australia
What You Sow
interactive generative AR public artwork.Tamiko Thiel and /p, 2023
AR Biennial "Hybrid Nature"
NRW-Forum Düsseldorf, Germany
Revolution and Return
interactive generative AR public artwork.Tamiko Thiel and /p, 2023
"DEMO-" AR tour
wava.ar and Netzwerk Paulskirche
Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Waldwandel / Forest Flux
AR livestream installationTamiko Thiel and /p, 2023
Installation view @ Chiostro del Bramante, Rome
Commissioned by Kunsthalle Munich, BIOTOPIA and Bavarian State Forest Enterprise. Grants from Bavarian State Forest Enterprise and Sundance Institute (Unity Charitable Fund/Tides Foundation)
ARpothecary's Garden
interactive augmented reality installation.Tamiko Thiel, 2022
ARTour Basel
Solitude Park Basel, Switzerland
Art Collection Roche Basel
#JulietToo
AR public artwork, part of #MakeUsVisibleaugmented monuments in public space.
Tamiko Thiel, 2022
Anthropocene Daze
A series of large scale generative glitch videos,created with our AR app Evolution of Fish.
Tamiko Thiel, and /p, 2019-2023
Enter the Plastoscene
Interactive AR livestream/immersive projection installation,enhanced with AR app
Tamiko Thiel and /p, 2021/2022
MEET Digital Culture Center Immersive Space, Milan, Italy.
Enter the Plastoscene
Immersive AR projection installation,enhanced with AR app
Tamiko Thiel and /p, 2021
donumenta ART LAB Gleis 1, Regensburg Central Station, Germany
Atmos Sphaerae
360° VR artwork, 9 minutes.Tamiko Thiel, 2021
ReWildAR
Augmented Reality InstallationTamiko Thiel and /p, 2021
Commission for the 175th anniversary of the Smithsonian Institution
Invasive Growth #IG001
Augmented Reality SculptureTamiko Thiel, 2021
Installation view: Neue Nationalgalerie Berlin, with Henry Moore's "Archer"
Created for and premiered in "Augmented Species: Invasive Sculptures in Hybrid Ecologies," Curators Tina Sauerlaender and Ursula Ströbele, organized by MoMAR (Damjanski, David Lobser, Monique Baltzer).
Sponge Space Trash Takeover
Intervention by Tamiko Thiel into the online VR installation "Sponge Space" 2020Use of "Sponge Space" courtesy of Cyan Planet and xR HUB Bavaria.
Lend Me Your Face!
Participatory deepfake artificial intelligence video installationby Tamiko Thiel and /p, 2020
Technical collaborator: Christoph Clement
In "Götzendämmerung," Artist Assoc. in Haus der Kunst Munich
My Identity Is This Expanse
VR Film by Karolina Markiewicz and Pascal Piron, 2020Guest VR artist Tamiko Thiel
Suspended Spring
Video artwork and augmented reality artwork, 2020Commissioned by the Nantesbuch Foundationfor the Arts for Spring online exhibition during the coronavirus crisis
Strange Growth
(with /p)mixed reality xR artwork, 2019
Developed for the VECTOR artists' book
Guest Editor for Munich: Birthe Blauth
Managing Editors Peter Gregorio and Javier Barrios
Nothing of him that doth fade ...
(with /p)3D ceramic print and mixed reality xR artwork, 2019
Developed for the PIN. Friends of the Pinakothek Benefit Auction
for the Pinakothek der Moderne and Museum Brandhorst, Munich
Evolution of Fish
(in public space)interactive augmented reality large projection, 2019 (with /p)
Developed for the Digital Graffiti Festival, Alys Beach, Florida
Evolution of Fish
(gallery installation)Mixed reality with large AR projection
European premiere at Digital Art Space Munich
Lotus Meditation
(with /p)
augmented reality installation, 2019
Developed for Kennin-ji Zen Temple, Kyoto, Japan, as part of the Art Innovation Symposium and exhibit held by Kyoto University and Goldsmiths/University of London.
Unexpected Growth
(with /p)augmented reality installation, 2018
Whitney Museum of American Art commission for the exhibition Programmed: Rules, Codes, and Choreographies in Art, 1965-2018
Wild Gardens
augmented reality installation, 2017For the Long Night of the Museums, Neue Sammlung/Design Museum at the Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich
Goldsegen (Golden Blessings)
participatory performative art projectaugmented reality and instant prints wall hanging
F or "Stand by me," artists respond to Goya's "Follies" series
Curator Katia Rid, Galerie der Künstler, Munich 2017
Treasures of Seh Rem
augmented reality installation, 2017Boston Cyberarts commission
" The Augmented Landscape " AR group exhibit
Salem Maritime National Historic Site , Massachusetts
El Barrio is home!
augmented reality installation, 2016For the Caribbean Cultural Center and African Diaspora Institute
"Mi Querido Barrio" exhibit, October 2016 - April 2017 in El Barrio/East Harlem, New York City
Gardens of the Anthropocene
augmented reality installation, 2016Commissioned by the Seattle Art Museum
Olympic Sculpture Park, Seattle, June 25 - September 30, 2016
I am Sound
interactive face-to-music installation (with Christoph Reiserer), 2016Commissioned by the Digital Synesthesia Project
(U of Applied Arts Vienna, ZKM Karlsruhe, City U of Hong Kong)
Brush the Sky
augmented reality Japanese calligraphy gallery installation & public artPremiere: CONSTRUCT\S exhibit, Wing Luke Museum
(Seattle, 15 May 2015 - 17 April 2016, with Midori Kono Thiel)
Goldsegen - Golden Blessings SG50
participatory art project - augmented reality instant prints/wall hangingIn celebration of Chinese New Year and the 50th anniversary of Singapore, for the ADM Gallery Faculty Show, Nanyang Technological University (Singapore, 2015)
Goldsegen (Golden Blessings)
participatory art project - augmented reality and instant printsCommissioned for "Das Rätsel des Überflüssigen" ("Conundrum of the Superfluous"), curator Serafine Lindemann/artcircolo, Munich 2014 New performance and wall hanging for "Stand by me," artists respond to Goya's "Follies" series, curator Katia Rid. Galerie der Künstler, Munich 2017
Fractured Visions
augmented reality installationAXNS Curatorial Collective commission
Premiere: MERGE Festival
(London, 2014)
Water Lily Invasion
augmented reality installationFor Digital Art Weeks at SIGGRAPH Asia Hong Kong
(Hong Kong 2013, Basel 2014)
Shades of Absence: Governing Bodies
augmented reality installationCorcoran Gallery of Art and Corcoran College of Art and Design
(Washington DC, 2013)
Biomer Skelters
bio-sensor driven augmented reality public art project(Liverpool, 2013, with Will Pappenheimer)
FACT Liverpool commission
Transformation: Lehel
augmented reality public art project and 4-channel video installation(Munich, 2012) Commissioned by Overtures Zeiträume, pilotraum01 e.V.,
curators Serafine Lindemann+Christian Schoen
Clouding Green
augmented reality installation usingGreenpeace's study "How Clean is your Cloud"
(Silicon Valley/California, 2012)
Commissioned by ZERO1 Biennial and Samek Art Gallery
Fortune 500 Cookies
augmented reality fortune cookieSilicon Valley/California (2012)
Commissioned by ZERO1 Biennial and Samek Art Gallery
When I Dream
augmented reality installation(Gwangju/Korea, 2012)>
The Art Syn Projects (London) for Art Gwangju
To Question is GOLD
augmented reality installation(Copenhagen, 2012)
Nikolaj Kunsthal commission
for the Copenhagen Art Festival
An "incompatible" intervention
"Offensive AR art" at the2012 Transmediale, Berlin
Perceptive Dislocations
participatory performance with theUnited | Dislokations | Kartell (U|D|K)
(2012)
Goethe-Institut Second Life Artist in Residence commission
Dislocative Sculpture
performative sculpture with theUnited | Dislokations | Kartell (U|D|K)(2011)
Goethe-Institut Second Life Artist in Residence commission
Reign of Gold
augmented reality installation(New York, 2011)
art of the AR Occupy Wall Street Project
Invisible Istanbul: Captured Images
augmented reality installation series (Istanbul, 2011)Official parallel program to the Istanbul Biennial
See also Invisible Istanbul Project
Shades of Absence: Public Voids
augmented reality installationVenice Biennale intervention, Piazza San Marco(Venice/Italy, 2011)
Further venues
Shades of Absence: Outside Inside
augmented reality installationVenice Biennale intervention into the Giardini (Venice/Italy,2011)
Further venues
Shades of Absence: Schlingensief Gilded
augmented reality installationVenice Biennale intervention into the German Pavilion
(Venice/Italy, 2011)
Jasmine Rain (birdcage)
augmented reality installationMemorial for the Jasmine Revolutions of the Arab Spring (2011)
Carnation Rain
(Largo do Carmo)augmented reality installation
Memorial for the Carnation Revolution, Lisbon, Portugal (2011)
Seven Portraits for MariaH
augmented reality installationBrooklyn, NY, (2011)
For the Beta Spaces Festival, Brooklyn, NY
Eddie Mae: Return to Bushwick
augmented reality installationBrooklyn, NY(2011)
For the Beta Spaces Festival, Brooklyn, NY
Virtuelle Mauer / ReConstructing the Wall
interactive 3D installation (virtual reality)
(2008, T+T - Tamiko Thiel and Teresa Reuter)
The Travels of Mariko Horo
interactive 3D installation (virtual reality)
(2006, with music by Ping Jin)
Geometries of Power
multi-user virtual world image spacewith students from the Bauhaus-University Weimar
(2002)
