Tamiko Thiel
Artworks exploring the intersection of space, place and cultural memory.
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FINAL WEEKS @ ERES FOUNDATION MUNICH
03 - 26 September 2026 after the August summer break
ParadoQc/Machines: An immersive journey into the quantum levels of an atom.
Augmented Reality livestream immersive installation, Tamiko Thiel and /p, 2025
Commissioned by the ERES Foundation with scientific advice from the Munich Center for Quantum Science and Technology (MCQST) in celebration of the 2025 International Year of Quantum Science and Technology for the exhibit:
"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.
Statement from quantum physicist Prof. Dr. Steffen Glaser, TU Munich:
"ParadoQc/Machines gives visitors an intuitive, full-body encounter faithfully reflecting the underlying quantum properties, informed by the artists' extensive research and engagement with leading scientists in the field."
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!)
Until 06 Sept. 2026 @ Chiostro del Bramante, Rome
"FLOWERS. Wonderful Nature" is now featuring two of our immersive AR livestream installations:
Enter the Plastocene, (2021, with /p), with corals and shells from the Museo Civico di Zoologia di Roma.

"Enter the Plastocene" AR livestream projection.
Installation view, Chiostro del Bramante, Rome, Italy, 2026.
Forest Flux/Waldwandel, originally commissioned by the Kunsthalle Munich for their traveling exhibit "FLOWERS FOREVER," and now in its own space in a diorama of a Bavarian forest.

Forest Flux/Waldwandel AR livestream projection.
Installation view at the Chiostro del Bramante, Rome, Italy, 2025.
Until 22 Nov. 2026 @ ECC/Palazzo Mora, during the Venice Biennial
"Wilderness", collaborative 21-screen video installation by 8 members of the United Media Artists (UMA) group.
Featured at the European Cultural Centre (ECC)in Palazzo Mora, Cannaregio, Venice/Italy, in the exhibit "Personal Structures - Confluences," for the duration of the Venice Biennial.

"Wilderness," collaborative 21-channel video installation, United Media Artists, 2026.
"Wilderness" evokes a place that obeys its own laws, an uncultivated mythic world, a place to explore or to hide; an example of the wonders of life – the dichotomy of beauty and danger. In our collaborative video installation "Wilderness," 16 videos by 8 different artists loop over 21 screens, creating a vibrant collage of often contradictory images of what wilderness is or means to us.
Participating UMA artists: Tamiko Thiel, Terry Flaxton, Will Pappenheimer, Nataša Prosenc Stearns, Fernanda D'Agostino, Nina Sobell, John Sanborn and James Bloom.
RECENT BOOK
"Steve Jobs in Exile", by Geoffrey Cain
My friend Joanna Hoffman, Steve Jobs' "right hand" at both Apple and NeXT, told me years ago that when Steve Jobs first saw a photo of the Connection Machine, he immediately asked her to find the designer, as Jobs wanted "him" to design the NeXT machine. Unfortunately, I had disappeared to Europe to go to art school and we had lost contact. (See my interview with Joanna.)
Geoffrey Cain, for his new book on Steve Jobs' "years in exile" from Apple, confirmed our story, telling me "many of the former founders and execs [at NeXT] mentioned your work" (private communication).
See excerpt page 50: "Steve discovered the Connection Machine through Joanna Hoffman and became obsessed—here was proof that a computer’s form could deliver emotional satisfaction alongside raw functionality. "

Top left to right: Geoffrey Cain, 2026, Steve Jobs at launch of NeXT Cube, 1988. Bottom left to right: Danny Hillis and me, Joanna and me, with CM-2 at MoMA New York, 2017 (images retouched to remove other people and artworks).