Tamiko Thiel

Artworks exploring the intersection of space, place and cultural memory.

ARpothecary's Garden

What you sow

Revolution and Return

Waldwandel/Forest Flux

#JulietToo

Anthropocene Daze

Enter the Plastocene @ MEET Milan

Atmos Sphaerae

Enter the Plastocene @ ARTLAB Gleis1 Regensburg

ReWildAR

Virtual Berlin Wall

Lend Me Your Face!

Touching, Traces

Nothing of him that doth fade...

Evolution of Fish

Lotus Meditation

Unexpected Growth

CM 2 in MoMA

Land of Cloud

Gardens of the Anthropocene

I am Sound

Shades of Absence

All Hail Damien Hirst!

Reign of Gold

Water Lilly Invasion

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UPCOMING:

Talk @ Ars Electronica - Expanded Animation Conference:

17:00 Friday 05 Sept. Skyloft, Ars Electronica Center, Linz, Austria
FREE Entry - Expanded Animation is a separate, parallel conference
https://expanded-conf.org/#program (in ASIFA Austria Forum)

We are so pleased at the invitation to come talk about how we use animation in very diverse ways in our VR and AR artworks! Our title is only slightly tongue-in-cheek - come and find out why!

ONGOING:

Streaming Online @ CIFRA:

Our Time Is Also the Future: New Corporeality, curated by Anika Meier (The Second-Guess)

Featuring: Totem of Heavenly Wisdom
5-channel video sculpture, Tamiko Thiel, 1996 (shown as a 1-channel simulation)

Single channel simulation of the 5-channel video sculpture.

With artworks from:
Sougwen Chung * allapopp * Kika Nicolela * Carla Streckwall * Hermine Bourdin * Jess Tucker *Nancy Burson * Tabitha Swanson * OONA * Leah Schrager * Malpractice * Flynn *Franziska Ostermann * Margaret Murphy * CROSSLUCID * Boris Eldagsen * Claudia Hart * Tamiko Thiel * SOFF

Until October 2025: Burg Ranfels/Lower Bavaria

"BESTIA ET ANIMA", curated by Dr. Stefanie Baumann and Alexander Timtschenko

Plastocene Reef
1.5m wide x 2.7m tall augmented wall treatment, courtesy Yvonne Hohner Contemporary Karlsruhe.

Plastocene Reef, installation view at Burg Ranfels Schoolhouse door, 2025

Plastocene Dreams
DIN A2 augmented fine art prints, courtesy Yvonne Hohner Contemporary Karlsruhe.

Plastocene Dreams, installation view at Burg Ranfels, 2025

EXTENDED to 18 Jan. 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!

Forest Flux/Waldwandel AR livestream large projection installation. Installation view at the Chiostro del Bramante, Rome, Italy, 2025.

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! :-)