Tamiko Thiel
Artworks exploring the intersection of space, place and cultural memory.
UPCOMING:
Opening 09 Feb 2024 @ Ludwig Museum, Budapest, Hungary
Vera Plastica
Generative AR installation, Tamiko Thiel and /p, 2024
Commissioned by BROICH Digital Art Museum via DAM Projects Berlin
Premiering in "À la Recherche de Vera Molnar," with works by generative art pioneer Vera Molnar and homages by internationally acclaimed artists. Curated by Richard Castelli and Zsófia Máté, with generous support from BROICH Digital Art Museum and Stiftung für Kunst und Kultur.
Opening: 18:00 on Friday 09 February - Exhibition: 10 February - 14 April 2024
Ludwig Museum – Museum of Contemporary Art, Budapest
Vera Plastica is a generative augmented reality (AR) installation inspired by Vera Molnar's 2D generative grid compositions, with each grid element an algorithmic variation in form and color. We extend her process into the 3rd and 4th dimensions of space and time, creating a dialog between a 2D, top down view, shown on a horizontal monitor, and a 3D spatial, perspective view of the entire animated AR installation, shown on a large wall monitor and in visitors' own smartphones. Our basic unit is also 3D: a (virtual) plastic bottle, symbolizing the plastic waste we are dumping into our oceans. The artwork reveals how viewpoint shapes our perception: the colorful circles on the 2D monitor are seen in 3D to be „sprouts“ of a huge „plastokelp forest“ expanding out from the horizontal monitor to engulf all visitors in the galley space.
Opening 16 February @ Naturkundemuseum Bayern mit Biotopia Lab, Munich
Waldwandel/Forest Flux
AR installation, Tamiko Thiel and /p, 2023
Exhibition: „"Bestäuber – Kleine Helden der Natur" ("Pollinators - Little Heros of Nature")
Dates Extended: 16 February - End of May, 2024
Location: Naturkundemuseum Bayern mit Biotopia Lab, Munich
We are sad to see Biotopia director Michael John Gorman leave Munich, and wish him all the best at the MIT Museum! Many thanks to Michael John/Biotopia for helping commission "Waldwandel/Forest Flux." We are happy to be able to show the AR installation at Biotopia as a "farewell exhibit" before he moves to MIT, Tamiko's old alma mater, as director of the MIT Museum.
Opening 07 March 2024 @ King's College, London, UK
The Travels of Mariko Horo
Interactive VR installation, Tamiko Thiel, 2006
Panel discussion & opening event: 07 March, 6:30pm
Location: Great Hall, King's Building, Strand, King's College London
Exhibition: GLOW: ILLUMINATING INNOVATION
Dates: 08 March - 20 April 2024
Location: Arcade at Bush House, Strand, King's College London
Additional King's College exhibit:
Curiosity Cabinet: (171 Strand) Featuring two of my original WEARABLE ART designs:
"Travels of Mariko Horo" from Bobblehaus NY - * - Connection Machine CM-1 t-shirt
Opening 27 or 28 March (TBA) @ MIX Center, Arizona State U, Mesa, AZ, USA
Enter the Plastocene
Immersive AR installation, Tamiko Thiel and /p, 2021/2022
Exhibition: Enter the Plastocene @ MIX Center ASU
Dates: 28 March - 10 April 2024
Location: Media and Immersive eXperience (MIX) Center, Arizona State University, Mesa, Arizona, USA.
We are delighted to exhibit Enter the Plastocene again as an AR livestream on the MIX Center lobby's 32-foot long monumental display, enabling visitors to experience the environment we are creating for ocean dwellers: a world composed of plastic garbage.
ENDING SOON:
Ending 03 March 2024 @ Bobblehaus, New York
Tamiko Thiel solo show
Videos, prints and wearable art from the Travels of Mariko Horo work series
ONGOING:
Until 12 May 2024, at the 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)
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.
Until 01 Oct 2024 @ 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.
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.
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.
PRESS:
Danielle Newnham Podcast: "Interviews with tech founders and innovators" just published an interview about formative aspects of my childhood, and working with collegues on the Connection Machine.KUNSTFORUM International: 20 page (!) interview in guest editor Pamela Scorzin's "Mixed Realities" volume.
(In German - contact me for English)