“Invisible Istanbul : Captured Images”
by Tamiko Thiel
Artworks Launch Page
These artworks are located in the Tophane area of Istanbul, where the former munitions factory and barracks stood. Now this area is the site of the Istanbul Modern Art Museum, and of Antrepot 3 and Antrepot 5/Sanat Limani, where the Istanbul Biennial is being held in 2011. The only remaining structure from former times is the Clock Tower on the lawn of the Istanbul Modern.
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| "Captured (for Hrant)"
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| "Captured(for #RSF_RWB)"
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| "Captured (for Abdul Hamid II)" [ Launch artwork ] |
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| "Captured (shells)"
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| "Captured
(cannons)"
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| "Captured
(stockade)"
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| "Captured
(cannon balls)"
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Bio / Tamiko Thiel: Tamiko Thiel is a media artist developing the dramatic and poetic capabilities of various forms of virtual and augmented reality as a medium for exploring social and cultural issues in site-specific artworks. She has degrees in engineering from Stanford and MIT and a fine arts degree from the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich. She exhibits internationally in venues such as the International Center for Photography in New York, the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston, the ZKM in Karlsruhe and the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, and at festivals such as Siggraph, ISEA and Ars Electronica. Her work has been supported by grants from WIRED Magazine, the Japan Foundation, the MIT Center for Advanced Visual Studies, Berlin Capital City Cultural Fund (Hauptstadtkulturfonds) and the IBM Innovation Award. As a founding member of the augmented reality artist group Manifest.AR she participated in the pathbreaking uninvited augmented reality intervention at MoMA NY in 2010, and led the AR intervention at the Venice Biennial in 2011. |