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


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

PRESS: Arte TWIST augmented reality interview: Starting at 26:28 - in German but great video! :-)


Waldwandel / Forest Flux. Artist's visualization in the Kunsthalle Munich.


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.

Left: Anne Wichmann/ARORA and Tamiko with new plaque to launch #JulietToo AR installation.
Right: Munich Vice Mayor Katrin Habenschaden, Anne Wichmann, Amadea Pely/denkFEmale, Juliet Capulet (by Nereo Costantini), Tamiko, Tabitha Nagy/#MakeUsVisible.


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


What You Sow
What You Sow, Tamiko Thiel and /p, 2023. Visualization in Rheingärtchen, Düsseldorf, Germany.


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)


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.

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! :-)