Tamiko Thiel:

The Travels of Mariko Horo

Exhibits:

2007

• October 11 - November 20, 2007, Seattle, WA, USA
  The Travels of Mariko Horo is being exhibited in a solo show at 911 Media Arts Center in conjunction with "Japan Envisions the West: 16th-19th Century Japanese Art from Kobe City Museum," an exhibit of Japanese Namban or "foreigner art" at the Seattle Art Museum. I also gave an artist's talk at the Seattle Art Museum on Mariko Horo as a modern day version of Namban art.
  
  Read the review in the NW Asian Weekly
  
  
  
• August 5-9, 2007, San Diego, CA, USA
  Exhibited at SIGGRAPH in the Art Gallery show "Global Eyes."
  
  
  
• February 7-16, 2007, Ghent, Belgium
  "The Game is Up!" at the Arts Centre Vooruit.
  
  Follow this link for a video interview (in English) on The Travels of Mariko Horo recorded by the Belgium composer Joachim Brackx in his guise as reporter for the culture website www.klara.de.
  
  
  

2006

• November 25, 2006 - February 18, 2007, Wolfsburg, Germany
  "Next Level: Die Lust am Spiel in der Netzwerkgesellschaft" at the Kunstverein Wolfsburg.
  
  
  
• November 10-12, Munich, Germany
  15:30 - 18:30  Exhibition (free entry, European premiere)
  20:30              Dance Performance (World premiere)
  
  Nov. 11th only:
  17:30 - 18.30 Slide lecture (free, in German) from Dr. Andrea Hirner:
                         "Japans christliches Jahrhundert," followed by a short 3D demo.
  
  This combination exhibition and performance will be shown at i-camp/Neues Theater as part of the Dance2006 Festival of Contemporary Dance in Munich.
  
  European premiere of the final version of The Travels of Mariko Horo (Second Journey: In The Land of Babarian.) During the hours of the exhibition, visitors can explore the virtual world themselves.
  
  World premiere of a live Butoh dance performance by Shinichi Iova-Koga (inkBoat) and Ishide Takuya using The Travels of Mariko Horo as a realtime 3D stage set, commissioned by the City of Munich for the 2006 "Young Art/New Media" prize.
  
  Reviews:
  - Hentschlaeger, Ursula. "Im Land der Barbaren," (www.artmagazine.cc)
  - Schneider, Katja. "Der Tanz bin ich," (www.tanznetz.de)
  
  
  
• July 29 - November 26, San Jose, California, USA
  World premiere of the initial version of The Travels of Mariko Horo (First Journey: In Search of the Western Paradise) in the show "Edge Conditions," San Jose Museum of Art, as part of the Pacific Rim theme of the Media Art Festival ZeroOne San Jose / ISEA2006.
  
  See the YouTube interview by artfuture
  
  
  
• ongoing online exhibit
  Mariko Horo's Logbook, a narrative commentary on The Travels of Mariko Horo, is in the June issue of the online art journal mark(s).
  
  
  

Awards:

2006

• Production award "Junge Kunst/Neue Medien" from the City of Munich, curated by Bettina Wagner-Bergelt and Dr. Stefan Urbascheck, for an exhibit and live Butoh dance performance using The Travels of Mariko Horo as a realtime "stage set" during the DANCE 2006 Festival, Oct.27 - Nov.12 in Munich.

2004

• Research Fellowship to begin production of The Travels of Mariko Horo at the Center for Advanced Visual Studies (CAVS),
  Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA.

2003

• Japan Foundation Fellowship
  for background research for The Travels of Mariko Horo.
  
  
• Artist in Residence at the Kyoto Art Center, Kyoto, Japan,
  for background research for The Travels of Mariko Horo.

Lectures:

2005

• The Travels of Mariko Horo, lecture/demo at the
  Center for Advanced Visual Studies (CAVS),
  Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA.
  
  

2004

• "Virtual Reality as Interactive Cultural Experience," Guest lecture in the class "Visualizing Cultures," Prof. John Dower and Prof. Shigeru Miyagawa,
  Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA.
  
  

2003

• Kyoto Art Center, Kyoto, Japan.
  "Creating the Unknown World," lecture/workshop on imagining and constructing an unknown world, based on examples from European and Japanese art history and cartography collected during research for The Travels of Mariko Horo.