OPLINE PRIZE - VOTE by May 30th!

Lend Me Your Face!, our participatory AI deepfake artwork, has been nominated by the renowned Maria Grazia Mattei, MEET Digital Cultural Center Milan director and founder, for the 18th edition of the Opline Prize!!!

Until the prize is awarded on June 6th, you can create your own private deepfakes using our net art version! (Your data and the deepfakes are only visible on the device you use to create them.) Today's deepfakes are almost perfect, but our original generative system from 2020 retains its imperfections, giving you unique insight into how generative AI systems still work today. Our framework runs on our own old server, with negligible use of energy resources.

By 30 May: VOTE for the audience award on our page on the Opline website!

JUST OPENED

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" 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.

ONGOING

UNTIL 02 AUGUST 2026 @ ZKM KARLSRUHE, GERMANY:
"Connection Machine CM-2: The Dream of an Electronic Brain"

40th anniversary exhibit @ ZKM Karlsruhe of a Connection Machine CM-2 and DataVault.
On view in ZKM lobby (FREE entry), courtesy of KIT Karlsruhe Institute of Technology.

ALL TALKS NOW ONLINE:

SYMPOSIUM "Envisioning AI: Legacy and Impact of the Connection Machine"
Scroll down to bottom of page for links to Contributor's bios and Videos of their individual talks.


In his 1985 MIT AI Lab thesis, W. Daniel Hillis envisaged a machine “to perform the functions of the human mind, a thinking machine”. Hillis subsequently led a team of engineers and designers to create amikothe first commercial supercomputer with a massively parallel architecture – a pioneering achievement that contributed significantly to the development of modern high-performance computers and AI systems. Whilst the CM-2 set the frame for AI computation, it also changed the course of computer design and the aesthetics of our wider technological culture.

Organised by the ZKM in collaboration with the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, artist/CM product designer Tamiko Thiel, and the MIT Museum (Cambridge, Massachusetts), the event marks the 40th anniversary of the Connection Machine (CM) series.

Until 02 Aug. @ BERGSON Kunstkraftwerk Gallery, Munich

Plastocene Dreams A2 AR prints and Plastocene Reef AR wall treatment are on view in the Bergson Gallery Munich, courtesy of Yvonne Hohner Contemporary, Karlsruhe.

In the exhibit EARTH MATTERS, curated by Alexander Timtschenko and Jana Vedra.

UNTIL 26 Sept. 2026 @ ERES FOUNDATION MUNICH

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 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.





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.

RECENT ARTICLE

Stanford University Alumni Magazine

RECENT AWARDS:

SIGGRAPH, 2024

In 2024 I received 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 in the inaugural cohort inducted into the newly formed XR Hall of Fame, including many of my s/heros and friends!

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 - who am I to argue with an algorithm? ;-) Grateful that I lived to see the words "famous" and "digital" and "artists" in the same sentence in art magazines! :-)