Tamiko Thiel
Artworks exploring the intersection of space, place and cultural memory.
Award:
"My Identity Is This Expanse" wins Best Immersive VR Award @ Cinequest, San Jose, CA/USA!
My Identity Is This Expanse! is a VR experience by Karolina Markiewicz and Pascal Piron
I am honored to be their Guest VR Artist for the dream poem sequences! The work will be shown in Karolina and Pascal's exhibit "Stronger than memory and weaker than dewdrops" at the Casino Luxembourg in fall 2021.

Ongoing:
Extended until 25 April @ MEET CENTER MILAN
Lend Me Your Face! showing as a deepfake AI video/sound installation
In “Synthetic Corpo-Reality” online group exhibit in Mozilla Hubs, curator Julie Walsh.

Extended until 17 May 2021: The Photographers' Gallery, London
Lend Me Your Face: Go Fake Yourself! participatory deepfake AI net art (2020/2021, with /p)
Net art version commissioned by The Photographers' Gallery.

The Photographers' Gallery, founded 50 years ago as the first art space in London dedicated to photography, has commissioned Go Fake Yourself!, a private, participatory online net art version of Lend Me Your Face! It will be linked from their website from 18 January - 17 March 2021. If coronavirus restrictions allow galleries in London to open, a public version of Lend Me Your Face! will be shown on their Media Wall as well.
PARTICIPATE: UPLOAD YOUR OWN FACE!
Here's my interview with Sarah Cook, curator and professor in Information Studies at the University of Glasgow. Part of Unthinking Photography, The Photographers' Gallery's online space for discussions on the expanding nature of the medium.
Until May 22, 2021 @ WHEATON BIENNIAL
Touching, Traces: 2020 Election Diaries - Fine art prints of fingerprints on iPad
Five prints from this work series are showing in the group exhibit "final_final_FINAL," juried by Legacy Russell.

Book participation:
"I Love Women Artists" (in German only)Essays on 100 women artists in Germany, from the 15th-21st centuries.
Written by 100 women curators, collectors, gallerists working in Germany.
Land of Cloud VR installation, essay written by VR curator Tina Sauerländer
To mark the 100th anniversary of women first being allowed to study art in Germany, the artists Janine Mackenroth und Bianca Kennedy asked 100 women from the German art world to write a personal essay about a favorite woman artist working in Germany. The artist range from unknown nuns in the 15th century to contemporary artists of the 21st century.