Tamiko Thiel

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


UPCOMING: Munich

EXHIBITION: 04 Dec. 2025 - 26 Sept. 2026


ParadoQc/Machines: An immersive journey into neutral atom quantum computing.
Augmented Reality livestream immersive installation, Tamiko Thiel and /p, 2025

Commissioned by the ERES Foundation in celebration of the 2025 International Year of Quantum Science and Technology for the exhibit in their main gallery, Römerstrasse 15, Munich:
"Seeing the Unseen: Quantum physics and art as entangled worlds."



ParadoQc/Machines AR livestream installation in the ERES Foundation, Römerstrasse 15, Munich.

ParadoQc/Machines is a deep dive into the quantum levels of the atom, and the quantum properties of superposition and entanglement that enable individual atoms to be used as "qubits" - quantum bits - for neutral atom quantum computers.

Many thanks to Prof. Dr. Steffen Glaser (TUM) and Prof. Dr. Johannes Zeiher (LMU, planqc), of the Munich Center for Quantum Science and Technology MCQST for their extremely generous time and patience as we peppered them with questions on the intimate details of quantum physics. (Note: All errors are exclusively the fault of the artists themselves!)




"TECHNE: Homecoming" is the inaugural exhibit of ONX Studio's new Tribeca location, in conjunction with the "Under the Radar" Festival. This is Atmos Sphaerae's first showing as an immersive space!

Atmos Sphaerae, 3-screen immersive installation version, 2021/2025
Original music by Christoph Reiserer; 3D audio sound engineering by Martin Rieger/VR Tonung



A deep time meditation on the changing composition of the Earth's atmosphere.

Atmos Sphaere was originally created for the DiMoDA 4.0: "Dis/Location" VR exhibition, curated by Christiane Paul, and premiered in 2021 at Gazelli Art House London. Most recently shown at the 2025 SIGGRAPH Art Gallery, Vancouver, curated by Francesca Franco.

RECENT EVENT:

On 18 October 2025, at the kind invitation of Julia Maier, we had the honor of participating in the "Wald im Wandel" ("The Changing Forest") concert, in Burg Schwaneck near Munich, organized by her and other members of the Muenchner Symphoniker / Orchester des Wandels. Mattias Krön on alphorn and Olivia Neuhauser on harp graciously developed a musical improvisation for Waldwandel/Forest Flux, which joined them on stage as an AR livestream projection.

See more images and links to videos on our Waldwandel project page!

"Waldwandel/Forest Flux" AR livestream with Mattias Kroen/Alphorn and Olivia Neuhauser/Harp.


ONGOING:

EXTENDED to 22 Feb. 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! :-)