UPCOMING:

Opening 28 March 4pm@ 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 14 April 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.

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.

Ending 20 April 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

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)