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.

RECORDINGS ONLINE: Day1 Tech Session (Day2 Design and Art to follow)

SYMPOSIUM "Envisioning AI: Legacy and Impact of the Connection Machine"

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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.

NEW ARTICLE

Stanford University Alumni Magazine

NEW WORK

UNTIL 26 Sept. 2026 @ ERES FOUNDATION MUNICH

Save the date: 15:00 May 16: @ ERES Foundation: artist talk in conjunction with Various Others art festival.

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 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!)

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!

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!

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! :-)