Education

1991
AKADEMIE der BILDENDEN KUENSTE (Academy of Fine Arts), Munich, Germany.

• Diploma in Applied Graphics, concentration in installation art and video art under Prof. Gerhard Berger.
• Fall 1987 - Spring 1988: Project seminar under the object artist Prof. Daniel Spoerri.
• Summer 1985: Guest student of the painter Prof. Joerg Immendorff.

1983
MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE of TECHNOLOGY, Cambridge, MA, USA.

• M.S. in Mechanical Engineering.
• Studies in computer graphics and visual imaging at Architecture Machine Group and Visual Language Workshop (future Media Lab.)
• Studies in human-machine interface at the Biomechanics Lab; Master's thesis: "Real-Time Simulation of Ultra-Sonic Mobility Aid for the Blind."

1979
STANFORD UNIVERSITY, Stanford, CA, USA.

• B.S. in General Engineering/Product Design.
• Concentration in human-machine interface design.

AWARDS, RESIDENCIES, SPECIAL EVENTS

2024
SIGGRAPH 2024 Distinguished Artist Award for Lifetime Achievement in Digital Art

XR HALL of FAME, AWE (Augmented World Expo). Named as one of the 101 inaugural inductees.

CAI (Contemporary Art Issue) #10 in the "Top 20 Most Famous Digital Artists Today"

2023
DAM PROJECTS BERLIN commission for the JOSEF BROICH COLLECTION: "Vera Plastica" generative AR installation, as an hommage to generative art pioneer Vera Molnar.

CITY of MUNICH VICE MAYOR Katrin Habenschaden officially "unveils" physical plaque to launch #JulietToo AR intervention at Juliet Capulet statue, Marienplatz.

KUNSTHALLE MUNICH, BIOTOPIA and BAVARIAN STATE FOREST ENTERPRISE commission for "Waldwandel/Forest Flux".

BAVARIAN STATE FOREST ENTERPRISE grant for "Waldwandel/Forest Flux" AR installation.

SUNDANCE INSTITUTE | UNITY Charitable Fund Grant for "Waldwandel/Forest Flux".

BOBBLEHAUS Asian American Gen Z genderless fashion multiverse + retailer produces a turtleneck mesh top custom print of "Avogadori in the Court of the Last Judgment" scene from my "Travels of Mariko Horo" VR installation (2006).

2022
ART COLLECTION ROCHE BASEL acquires ARpothecary's Garden augmented reality installation, which was commissioned by ROCHE BASEL for the CITY of BASEL ARTour, curated by Sabine Himmelsbach.

LUMENS PRIZE selection of ReWildAR for the Lumens Prize British Computer Society (BCS) Immersive Environment Award Longlist.

GAZELLI ART HOUSE London, online digital artist in residence at gazell.io

2021
CHRISTIE'S New York, "Proof of Sovereignty" NFT auction, curated by Lady PheOnix, featuring "Unexpected Growth" AR installation. (See also Christie's lot page and press release.)

SUNDANCE INSTITUTE, Art of Practice Fellowship.

BEST IMMERSIVE VR award, Cinequest Film Festival, San Jose, CA, for "My Identity Is This Expanse".

DiMoDA 4.0 commission for "Atmos Sphaerae" VR artwork, curated by Christiane Paul.

SMITHSONIAN INSITUTION commission for ReWildAR AR installation, curated by Ashley Molese, for "FUTURES" 175th anniversary exhibition.

THE PHOTOGRAPHERS’ GALLERY, London. Commission for "Lend Me Your Face - Go Fake Yourself!" deepfake participatory AI net art.

2020
FILM FERNSEH FONDS BAYERN (Film Commission Bayern) project development grant for a mixed reality VR installation on the elemental cycles of life.

GOETHE-INSTITUT MONTREAL "New Nature" R&D grant for "Seeing the Imperceptible: Visualizing Microbial Communities in Bacalar Stromatolites" with Prof. Dr. Luisa Falcon/UNAM and Peter Graf

NANTESBUCH FOUNDATION commission for "Suspended Spring" video artwork, for the "Arts for Spring" online exhibition during the coronavirus crisis.

“My Identity Is This Expanse,” guest VR artist commission from Karolina Markiewicz and Pascal Piron, with funding from FILM FUND LUXEMBOURG.

VIRTUAL PILGRIMAGE to MANZANAR: as the yearly pilgrimage to the Manzanar Incarceration Camp site could not happen due to the coronavirus crisis, the San Jose JACL requested us to show Beyond Manzanar as the keynote event for around 650 visitors to their virtual online pilgrimage.

2019
KNIGHT FOUNDATION Immersive Technology in the Arts award as AR artistic and technical advisor to the HIDDEN HISTORIES San Jose Japantown project, in collaboration with the JAPANESE AMERICAN MUSEUM of SAN JOSE (JAMsj).

VECTOR artist book participation "Strange Growth" (with /p), Guest Editor Birthe Blauth, Managing Editors, Peter Gregorio and Javier Barrios, launched at KUNSTVEREIN MUNICH.

DIGITAL GRAFFITI FESTIVAL, Alys Beach, Florida. Artist residency (with /p) to create Evolution of Fish for the projection art festival.

Lumen Prize longlist for "Unexpected Growth" AR installation.

2018
WHITNEY MUSEUM of AMERICAN ART, New York. Commission for Unexpected Growth AR installation (with /p), with additional support from the Goethe-Institut.

iX VISIONARY PIONEER AWARD, from the Society of Art and Technology (SAT), Montreal, Canada.

PEOPLE'S CHOICE AUDIENCE AWARD, at the VRHAM virtual reality festival, Hamburg.

2017
GOOGLE TILT BRUSH Virtual Reality Artist in Residence.

NATIONAL ENDOWMENT for the ARTS funded augmented reality group show curated by Boston Cyberarts at the Salem Maritime Museum, Salem, MA, USA.

2016
MUSEUM of MODERN ART (MoMA) NEW YORK acquires a Connection Machine CM-2 supercomputer for its permanent collection.

SEATTLE ART MUSEUM commission for the Olympic Sculpture Park: Gardens of the Anthropocene.

JWT INTELLIGENCE Future 100 2017 report featured Gardens of the Anthropocene (on p27) as AR top trend for 2017.

2015
DIGITAL SYNESTHESIA commission for an interactive installation inspired by synesthesia (with Christoph Reiserer).

2014
Inducted into the DIGITAL ART ARCHIVE, Director Oliver Grau.

Inducted into the Honor Roll of the IT History Society for the visual design of the Connection Machine CM-1/CM-2 supercomputer.

ARTS COUNCIL ENGLAND - WELLCOME TRUST - KING'S COLLEGE LONDON grants for a commission from the AXNS COLLECTIVE, London, UK

DUKE UNIVERSITY, Visiting artist, Experimental Documentary Studies MFA program, Durham, NC, USA

2013
MACDOWELL COLONY Fellow, Peterborough, New Hampshire, USA.

DUKE UNIVERSITY, Visiting artist, Experimental Documentary Studies MFA program, Durham, NC, USA.

2012
ROCKEFELLER FOUNDATION Cultural Innovation Fund award for the Caribbean Cultural Center - African Diaspora Institute in Harlem, New York City. Co-wrote grant proposal as artistic and technical advisor for "Mi Querido Barrio" mobile augmented reality art, culture and history tour.

ZERO1 BIENNIAL and SAMEK ART GALLERY augmented reality commission for Manifest.AR @ ZERO1 Biennial, San Jose, USA.

2011
GOETHE-INSTITUT Artist in Residence, Second Life.

DUKE UNIVERSITY visiting artist, Experimental and Documentary Studies MFA Program, Durham, USA, 2011-2014.

CARAVANSARAI artist in residence, Istanbul, Turkey.

2011
Co-founded Manifest.AR Cyberartist Group

2009
IBM INNOVATION AWARD for artistic creation in art and technology awarded to Virtuelle Mauer/ReConstructing the Wall at the Boston Cyberarts Festival, Boston, USA.

Sebastian Smee, Pulitzer Prize finalist and art critic at the Boston Globe, calls Virtuelle Mauer/ReConstructing the Wall the "highlight of this year's Boston Cyberarts Festival" in his "CRITIC'S PICKS - VISUAL ARTS." Boston Globe, Boston MA, USA., May 3, 2009.

Nominated for the WORLD TECHNOLOGY AWARD in the category Art, co-sponsored by (among others) the World Technology Network, Time Magazine, Science Magazine and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

2007
HAUPTSTADTKULTURFONDS (Berlin Capital City Cultural Fund) award for research and production of "Virtuelle Mauer / ReConstructing the Wall

2006
CITY OF MUNICH PRIZE for JUNGE KUNST/NEUE MEDIEN (Young Art/New Media) curated by Bettina Wagner-Bergelt and Dr. Stephan Urbaschek. A dance choreography was commissioned from the Butoh group inkBoat and premiered during the DANCE 2006 Festival of Contemporary Dance as In the Land of Babari-an, using The Travels of Mariko Horo as a realtime virtual reality stage set.

2005
Founded Upgrade! Munich, a local monthly meeting on art and technology, and part of the Upgrade! International network.

2004
Center for Advanced Visual Studies (CAVS) Fellowship, MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE of TECHNOLOGY, Cambridge, MA, USA.

2003
JAPAN FOUNDATION Fellowship to research Namban-bunka, a genre of Japanese art that depicted foreigners and foreign lands.

KYOTO ART CENTER, Kyoto, Japan. Artist in Residence to do basic research for "The Travels of Mariko Horo".

CORNELL UNIVERSITY ROSE GOLDSEN ARCHIVE of NEW MEDIA ART adds "Beyond Manzanar" to its collection.

2002
SAN JOSE MUSEUM of ART, San Jose, Silicon Valley, California purchases an edition of the Beyond Manzanar virtual reality installation for its permanent collection.

2001
Nominated for ROCKEFELLER FOUNDATION New Media Arts Fellowship.

KULTURREFERAT MUENCHEN, special guest showing of Beyond Manzanar virtual reality installation at welcoming reception for Dr. Lydia Hartl, incoming head of the Munich Cultural Department, Germany.

2000
Photo essay on Beyond Manzanar published in the premier issue of the new Japanese critical theory journal Diatxt, Kyoto Art Center, June 2000, pp.65 - 72.

Images from the series Metamorphoses featured on front and back covers of Leonardo Journal, MIT Press, Volume 33 #2, 2000, and on Leonardo's website.

Sapporo School of the Arts, Sapporo, Japan. Visiting Artist.

1999
International Academy of Media Arts and Sciences (IAMAS), Ogaki City, Japan. Artist in residence from November 1999 - March 2000 to produce the Beyond Manzanar virtual reality art project.

Art Center College of Design, Pasadena CA. Residency in the Department of Communication and New Media Design.

1998
WIRED Magazine and the Asian American Arts Foundation: Grant award for Beyond Manzanar virtual reality art project.

1997
"DOLL.MONSTER.DEATH.: Cultural Transformation Processes of Bio- and Information Technologies," Natural History Museum, Vienna, Austria: The Totem of Heavenly Wisdom video installation was the keynote event at the opening ceremony.

1996
BAY AREA VIDEO COALITION (BAVC), San Francisco, CA: Artist Equipment Access Award for The Totem of Heavenly Wisdom video installation.

GLOBAL INFORMATION INFRASTRUCTURE (GII) AWARDS (formerly the NII Awards): Starbright World virtual reality playspace received the following awards for extraordinary achievement on the Internet and information highway.
- Winner of Next Generation Award
- Finalist in Childrens category
- Semi-finalist in Telecollaboration category

ASAHI SHIMBUN: Digital Entertainment Award for Starbright World

SMITHSONIAN / COMPUTER WORLD:  Starbright World virtual reality playspace was a Finalist in the Medicine category.

1995
CYBEREDGE:
Virtual Reality Product of the Year Award in the "Applications" category for Starbright World .

1992
ZENTRUM fuer KUNST und MEDIENTECHNOLOGIE (ZKM), Karlsruhe, Germany:
nominated for Deutsche Videokunstpreis (German Video Art Prize): "Das Goldene Ei" ("The Golden Seed") video art piece premiered on German TV station SUEDWEST 3 as one of the best finalists.

Butoh at Johnny Walker's "Art Waves in Front," Tokyo, Japan:
Invitational screening of my video Golden Seed Butoh performance by Kazuo Ohno, photographs of Butoh by Nourit Masson-Sekine.

1989
Connection Machine CM-2 wins Gordon Bell Prize as fastet supercomputer in the world.

1985
THINKING MACHINES CORPORATION, Cambridge, MA:
Co-holder of patent for "Method for Interconnecting Processors in Hyper-Dimensional Array" for the Connection Machine CM-1, parallel supercomputer.

There are CM-1 and CM-2 Connection Machines in the collections of the COMPUTER HISTORY MUSEUM, Mountain View, CA (Silicon Valley), and in the Museum of American History, SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, Washington DC, USA.

Exhibitions

2024
LUDWIG MUSEUM BUDAPEST. Premiere of "Vera Plastica" generative AR installation in "À la Recherche de Vera Molnar," BROICH Digital Art Museum Collection.

KING'S COLLEGE LONDON, Bush Arcade Gallery, "GLoW: Illuminating Innovation" partnership with GAZELLI GALLERY London. Exhibiting "The Travels of Mariko Horo" interactive large VR display.

QUT ART MUSEUM / ISEA 2024 MEDIA ART FESTIVAL, Meanjin/Brisbane, Australia. "As Above, So Below," exhibiting mixed reality work in progress "Elemental Space".

MUDAM Luxembourg, "Radical Software: Women, Art and Computing 1960–1991," exhibiting prepatory sketches for the Connection Machines CM-1/CM-2.

SIGGRAPH, Denver/CO, USA. "New Media Architecture(s) Virtual Topologies in Urban Spaces" - projection of "Anthropocene Daze" on the Daniels and Fisher Clock Tower in public space.

YVONNE HOHNER CONTEMPORARY, Karlsruhe, Germany. "Between Here and the Future," exhibiting "Plastocene Dream" AR enhanced fine art prints, together with paintings by Gretta Louw, curated by Anabel Roque Rodríguez

MIX CENTER, ASU Tempe, Arizona. "Enter the Plastocene" 4-channel AR livestream on 10 meter display.

2023
AR BIENNIAL, NRW-FORUM, Düsseldorf. Premiere of “What You Sow/Was Man Sät” AR installation.

ISTANBUL DIGITAL ART FESTIVAL (IDAF). Atmos Sphaerae as VR experience plus large LED display, curated by Julie Walsh.

KUNSTHALLE MUNICH (HYPO-KULTURSTIFTUNG) exhibit "Flowers Forever," curated by Franziska Stöhr, premieres Waldwandel/Forest Flux.

NFT BIENNIAL @ ZORLU PSM, Instanbul and Vellum LA, Los Angeles. In the "Chrysalis Pavilion," curator Julie Walsh.

DEMO-, wava.ar and Netzwerk Paulskirche. Premiere of “Revolution and Return” AR installation.

xcircle.io digital art platform exhibit "The Now.The New.The Next.," FAMTAIN Members Club Munich.

BOBBLEHAUS Asian American Gen Z genderless fashion multiverse + retailer exhibits prints and videos from the "Travels of Mariko Horo" work series (2006 - 2023).

2022
KUNSTVEREIN WOLFSBURG retrospective, Wolfsburg, Germany. Diverse Realities 1991 - 2022 work overview.

ZKM Karlsruhe, in DiMoDA 4.0 as part of "Matter. Non-Matter. Anti-Matter."

EVOLUON Eindhoven, NL, "RetroFuture."

GAZELLI ART HOUSE, London. DiMoDA 4.0 exhibit “Dis/Location,” curator Christiane Paul.

DAM PROJECTS, Berlin. “Command + Control + Q”, curator Anna Meinecke. Exhibition of ReWildAR as large projection AR livestream.

MEET DIGITAL CULTURE CENTER, Milan. Enter the Plastocene multi-channel immersive installation.

ROCHE BASEL develops the "ARTour" AR city tour for the City of Basel, including ARpothecary's Garden sited in Solitude Park, between Roche HQ and the Museum Tinguely.

DIGITAL ART @ SONY CENTER POTSDAMER PLATZ, Berlin, curated by DAM Projects, Berlin. “Evolution of Fish - Anthropocene Daze #1” video artwork.

#MAKEUSVISIBLE Munich, AR public art exhibition.

HOOD MUSEUM of ART, DARTMOUTH College. Evolution of Fish AR projection.

BANNISTER GALLERY, Rhode Island College. "DiMoDa 4.0: Dis/Location" featuring Atmos Sphaerae VR artwork.

2021
SMITHSONIAN INSITUTION Arts and Industries Building (AIB). "FUTURES" 175th anniversary exhibition, curator Ashley Molese.

5th BIENNIAL of the Artists Association in HAUS der KUNST, Munich. "The World:Reglitterized," Munich.

DAM PROJECTS BERLIN. "Virtuelle Mauer/ReConstructing the Wall" fine art prints and interactive virtual reality.

CHRISTIE'S New York, "Proof of Sovereignty" NFT auction, curated by Lady PheOnix, featuring "Unexpected Growth" AR installation. (See also Christie's lot page and press release.)

donumenta ARTLAB Gleis 1, Regensburg Train Station, Germany. Solo exhibition, Enter the Plastocene multi-channel immersive installation.

MoMAR AR app group show "Augmented Species," curators Tina Sauerländer and Ursula Ströbele.

MICROWAVE FESTIVAL HONG KONG, showing Lend Me Your Face! deepfake AI installation.

RIJKSMUSEUM TWENTHE, Enschede, Holland. "Deep Truth," showing Lend Me Your Face! deepfake AI installation.

LICHTSICHT TRIENNALE, Bad Rothenfelde, Germany. Showing Water Lily Invasion and Brush the Sky: Odoroku (Astonishment).

immersiVR VR art platform, "Uncharted Territories" group VR exhibit, Synthesis Gallery & InVR, Berlin, showing Land of Cloud.

Guest Artist for "My Identity Is This Expanse" VR installation and film, directed by Karolina Markiewicz and Pascal Piron. Showings in:

• CASINO LUXEMBOURG, "Stronger than memory and weaker than dewdrops."
• CINEQUEST Film Festival, San Jose, California.

WHEATON BIENNIAL "final_final_FINAL" group exhibit, Beard and Weil Galleries, Wheaton College, Norton, MA. Showing 5 prints from "Touching, Traces: 2020 Election Diaries." Juror: Legacy Russell.

MEET CENTER MILAN, “Synthetic Corpo-Reality” online exhibit in Mozilla Hubs, curator Julie Walsh.

THE PHOTOGRAPHERS' GALLERY, London. Solo showing of Lend Me Your Face: Go Fake Yourself! deepfake AI net art project.

METRONOM, Modena, Italy. "Lend Me Your Face: Go Fake Yourself!" deepfake AI net art and Video Wall.

2020
Artists Association in HAUS der KUNST, Munich. "Götzendämmerung/Twilight of the Idols." Premiere of "Lend Me Your Face!" participatory deepfake artificial intelligence installation, and "Drei Menschen, erfasst/Three People, Recorded" fine art print.

"RE-START" online exhibit in Mozilla Hubs, curator Julie Walsh. Use portal in Dome1 to get to Dome2, or this link to go directly to Re-start Dome 2 for Lend Me Your Face!" participatory deepfake artificial intelligence installation.

RIXC ART SCIENCE FESTIVAL, "Ecodata" exhibit of "Unexpected Growth" AR installation, National Library, Riga, Latvia. Curators: Raitis Smits and Rasa Smite.

Guest VR artist on the dream sequences for "My Identity Is This Expanse!" by Karolina Markiewicz and Pascal Piron.
- BIAF BUCHEON INT'L ANIMATION FESTIVAL, South Korea.
- 360° FILM FESTIVAL, Paris. Winner: Best Sound.
- PALM SPRINGS ANIMATION FESTIVAL, Palm Springs, California, USA.
- REAL WORLD XR PRIZE 2020: Finalist

TELEMATIC GALLERY, San Francisco. "Suspended Spring" AR installation is part of "The Archive to Come," exhibit curated by Clark Buckner and Carla Gannis

LICHTSICHT TRIENNIAL, Bad Rothenfelde, Germany. "Water Lily Invasion" and "Brush the Sky" AR installations.

CADAF Contemporary & Digital Art Fair Online. "Land of Cloud" presented by DANAE Digital Art Network

DAM GALERIE, Berlin, Germany. SUMMER SPLASH 6" group show, with post-digital fine art print series "Touching, Traces".

GALLERY PRISKA PASQUER, Cologne, Germany. "Our Duty is to Experiment - 20th anniversary group show", with "Suspended Spring" augmented reality installation

STIFTUNG NANTESBUCH, Germany. Video "Suspended Spring" commissed for the "Arts for Spring" online exhibition during the coronavirus crisis.

REGENSBURG SHORT FILM WEEK, Regensburg, Germany. Evolution of Fish large projection augmented reality installation.

2019
MUSEUM of MODERN ART (MoMA), New York. "Energy," curated by Paola Antonelli and Anna Burckhardt

PIN. Friends of the Pinakothek Benefit Auction with Nothing of him that doth fade... ceramic 3D print + custom AR app, (Lot 54, page 55, held at the PINAKOTHEK der MODERNE, Munich.

MUSEUM SINCLAIR-HAUS, Bad Homburg, Germany. "Illusionary Nature," curated by Ina Fuchs, with consulation by Wolf Lieser, DAM Gallery Berlin.

CLB BERLIN in AUFBAU-HAUS AM MORITZPLATZ, Berlin. Solo exhibit "Virtuelle Mauer Zeitlabor 2.0."

KENNIN-JI Zen temple, Kyoto. Art Innovation exhibition at of the AR artwork "Lotus Meditation." Exhibit and symposium jointly held by KYOTO UNIVERSITY and GOLDSMITHS University of London art college.

SAN JOSE MUSEUM of ART, San Jose/Silicon Valley. Beyond Manzanar (with Zara Houshmand) showing in "Almost Human: Digital Art from the Permanent Collection".

EUPHRAT MUSEUM of ART, De Anza College, Cupertino/Silicon Valley. Brush the Sky (with Midori Kono Thiel) showing in "Space and Place," with special fundraiser and calligraphy demo by Midori.

2018
WHITNEY MUSEUM of AMERICAN ART, New York. Unexpected Growth AR installation (with /p) premieres in the group exhibit "Programmed: Rules, Codes, and Choreographies in Art, 1965–2018." Organized by Christiane Paul, Adjunct Curator of Digital Art, and Carol Mancusi-Ungaro, Melva Bucksbaum Associate Director for Conservation and Research, with Clémence White, curatorial assistant.

WING LUKE MUSEUM, Seattle. "Worlds Beyond Here: The Expanding Universe of Asian Pacific American Science Fiction ," exhibiting a Connection Machine CM-2 (courtesy of the Living Computers Museum) and Gardens of the Anthropocene overlaid by invitation onto Simon Kono's "A Rising Tide Lifts All Boats."

GROUNDS FOR SCULPTURE Hamilton, NJ. Invitational AR intervention into Michael Rees' exhibit "Synthetic Cells: Site and Para(Site)," with Gardens of the Anthropocene: Swim with the turtle.

SOCIETY of ART and TECHNOLOGY (SAT) Montreal. "iX 2018 - The Conquest of Reality," exhibiting Gardens of the Anthropocene. Awarded the 2018 iX Visionary Pioneer award.

VRHAM virtual reality festival, Hamburg. Premiere of Land of Cloud - winner of People's Choice Award.

i4c mixed reality festival, Munich. Exhibiting Land of Cloud and Wild Gardens.

"Augmented Reality Public Art Initiative" Hang Seng University of Hong Kong. Exhibiting Gardens of the Anthropocene and Wild Gardens.

2017
MUSEUM of MODERN ART (MoMA NY), Connection Machine CM-2 exhibited in "Thinking Machines: Art and Design in the Computer Age, 1959–1989," New York.

DIE NEUE SAMMLUNG / PINAKOTHEK der MODERNE, Munich, Germany. "Wild Gardens" AR tour with Neue Sammlung/The Design Museum curator Dr. Xenia Riemann-Tyroller.

"RESET III and Virtual Reality," GALLERY PRISKA PASQUER, curated by Tina Sauerländer (peer to space), Cologne, Germany. (See video of the exhibit.)

ART DÜSSELDORF, "RESET III and Virtual Reality" (curator Tina Sauerländer/peer to space), GALLERY PRISKA PASQUER, Düsseldorf, Germany.

MOVING IMAGE NEW YORK art fair, New York, NY.

PIONEER WORKS, Brooklyn, NY.

BOSTON CYBERARTS / NATIONAL ENDOWMENT for the ARTS, "The Augmented Landscape," Salem Maritime National Historic Site, Salem, MA, USA.

"stand by me," curator Katia Rid. GALERIE DER KÜNSTLER, Munich, Germany

3. BIENNALE der KÜNSTLER, Artists Association in HAUS DER KUNST, Munich, Germany

2016
SEATTLE ART MUSEUM Olympic Sculpture Park AR exhibit Gardens of the Anthropocene, Seattle.

9e2 SEATTLE, media art festival commemorating the 50th anniversary of the legendary art+tech collaboration "9 Evenings"

"Mi Querido Barrio" exhibit, CCCADI (Caribbean Cultural Center and African Diaspora Institute), East Harlem, New York City, showing the AR installation El Barrio is home!

"Digital Synesthesia" exhibition, Angewandte Innovation Lab (AIL), Vienna, Austria. I am Sound (with Christoph Reiserer), commisioned work from the DIGITAL SYNESTHESIA Group (project leaders Katharina Gsöllpointner, Ruth Schnell, Romana Schuler,Jeffrey Shaw and Peter Weibel).

Water Lily Invasion at VIRTUALE SWITZERLAND, Lugano, curator Art Clay/Digital Art Weeks.

2015
ADM Faculty Show 2015: Beyond the Horizon," curated by T.K. Sabapathy and Michelle Lim. ADM GALLERY, School of Art, Design and Media (ADM)Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. "Goldsegen / Golden Blessings SG50," participatory artwork for Singapore's 50th anniversary.

VIRTUALE SWITZERLAND, Lausanne, curator Art Clay/Digital Art Weeks. "Biomer Skelters" (with Will Pappenheimer) and "Shades of Absence: Public Voids."

WING LUKE MUSEUM, Smithsonian Institution Affiliate, Seattle, USA. "Brush the Sky" (with Midori Kono Thiel) in the group show "Construct/S," curated by Stacey Uradomo.

2014
UNPAINTED - world's first media art fair. Fine art prints from "Transformation: Munich" presented by pilotraum01.org, curator Serafine Lindemann/artcircolo. Munich, Germany.

Fractured Visions,” public art commission from the AXNS COLLECTIVE for KING’S COLLEGE LONDON, with a grant from the ARTS COUNCIL ENGLAND and support from the MERGE FESTIVAL, London, UK.

VIRTUALE SWITZERLAND, world's first biennial of virtual art, opening in parallel with ART BASEL. Curated by Digital Art Weeks International with the support of Prohelvetia Swiss Art Council, City & Canton of Basel, House for Electronic Arts, Basel.

ISEA DUBAI Media Art Festival, Dubai, United Arab Emirates.

"Goldsegen" in the group public art exhibit "Rätsel des Überflüssigen" (Conundrum of the Superfluous), curator Serafine Lindemann|articircolo, wtih pilotraum01 eV, GCM and DantonDenkRaum, Munich, Germany

"Virtuelle Mauer/ReConstructing the Wall" shown for the 25th anniversary of the Fall of the Wall at NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY/Boston and BENTLEY COLLEGE, Waltham, MA, USA.

"Virtuelle Mauer ZeitLabor," BEROLINA, BERLIN, Germany, for the 25th anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin Wall.

2013
CORCORAN GALLERY of ART / Corcoran College of Art and Design Gallery 31, "Manifest:AR" invitational show. Washington D.C., USA.

Turning FACT Inside Out” 10th anniversary exhibition. Manifest.AR group show "Invisible ARtaffects" - project "Biomer Skelters" in collaboration with the Liverpool John Moores University and the World Museum/National Museums Liverpool. FACT (Foundation for Art and Creative Technology), Liverpool, UK.

SIGGRAPH Asia Art Gallery, in the "Virtuale" exhibition, Hong Kong. Curated by Arthur Clay, Digital Art Weeks (DAW)

"You cannot afford this," group exhibit, CONTEMPORARY ISTANBUL ART FAIR, presented by Kasa Gallery and Museum of Contemporary Cuts. Lead curator Lanfranco Aceti, senior curators Pat Badani, Nicholas Mirzoeff and Marquard Smith.

DIGITAL ART WEEKS, Singapore. Curated by Art Clay.

2012
TATE MODERN, London, UK. “All Hail Damien Hirst!” AR intervention.

ART GWANGJU, Korea. "When I Dream" shown in the exhibit "Fragmented Identity," presented by The Art Syn Projects (London).

"Transformation" solo show, St. Lukas Church, Munich, Germany. Part of the Overtures - ZeitRäume Project by pilotraum01 e.V., curated by Serafine Lindemann (artcircolo) and Christian Schoen (kunst | konzepte).

ZERO1 BIENNIAL and SAMEK ART GALLERY (Bucknell University) present "Manifest.AR @ Zero1 Biennial 2012," San Jose, USA.

COPENHAGEN ART FESTIVAL, Denmark. NIKOLAJ KUNSTHAL presents “To Question is GOLD” in an invitational show.

TRIENNALE DI MILANO, Italy. “No.Need.For:Real?” AR group show for the Virtual Systems and MultiMedia (VSMM2012) conference.

“LA Re.Play” public art exhibit for College Arts Association, with the DMA Grad Art Gallery, BROAD ART CENTER, UCLA, Los Angeles. Manifest.AR group show.

GOETHE-INSTITUT ISLAND, SECOND LIFE. "Perceptive Dislocations" performative event in collaboration with the United|Dislokations|Kartell (U|D|K).

TRANSMEDIALE, Berlin, Germany. "in/compatible AR intervention"

2011
VENICE BIENNIAL and the GERMAN NATIONAL PAVILION, Venice, Italy. "Venice Bienniale 2011 AR Intervention," Manifest.AR uninvited guerilla augmented reality intervention.

ISTANBUL BIENNIAL, Istanbul, Turkey. Participant as part of the official parallel exhibit ISEA2011 UNCONTAINABLE. (See links to catalog "Uncontainable.")

• KASA GALLERY, Sabanci University, Istanbul, Turkey. "Not There," exhibition of Manifest.AR Venice Biennial AR Intervention artworks. (Catalog excerpt "Not There")
• ISTANBUL BIENNIAL main exhibition. "Invisible Istanbul: Captured Images," AR intervention. (Catalog excerpt " Invisible Istanbul.")

ICA Boston (Institute of Contemporary Art), Boston, USA. "Manifest.AR@ICA" invitational group show.

DUMBO Arts Festival, Brooklyn, New York, USA.

GOETHE-INSTITUT ISLAND, SECOND LIFE. "Dislocative Sculpture" performative event in collaboration with the United|Dislokations|Kartell (U|D|K).

"AR OCCUPY WALL STREET" - "Reign of Gold"

SAMEK ART GALLERY, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA, USA. "Not Here" group show with Manifest.AR.

"Carnation Rain (Largo do Carmo)" augmented reality (AR) artwork, permanent installation, LISBON, Portugal.

"gradually melt the sky," DEVOTION GALLERY, Brooklyn, New York City, USA

"(Un)seen Sculptures," public art show, MELBOURNE CBD, Arts Precinct, Southbank, Melbourne, Australia.

2010
MUSEUM of MODERN ART (MoMA), New York City, USA. "We AR in MoMA," uninvited guerilla augmented reality intervention.

"Bushwick Augmented Reality Intervention," group public art show as part of the Beta Spaces Festival, Bushwick neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York City, USA.

PALAZZO MEDICI-RICCARDI, Florence, Italy. "Colorito," ACM Multimedia Interactive Art Exhibit.

Solo exhibit of Virtuelle Mauer/ReConstructing the Wall at the Industrial Design Center (IDC) of the INDIAN INSTITUTE of TECHNOLOGY in cooperation with the GOETHE-INSTITUT MUMBAI, Mumbai, India (formerly Bombay).

Solo exhibit of Virtuelle Mauer/ReConstructing the Wall at the GOETHE-INSTITUT BANGALORE, Bangalore, India.

Solo exhibit of Virtuelle Mauer/ReConstructing the Wall at the GOETHE-INSTITUT SRI LANKA, Colombo, Sri Lanka.

2009
GOETHE-INSTITUT NEW DELHI, New Delhi, India. Solo exhibit of Virtuelle Mauer/ReConstructing the Wall

GOETHE-INSTITUT LOS ANGELES, Los Angeles, CA, USA. Solo exhibit of Virtuelle Mauer/ReConstructing the Wall

LABORAL, Gijon, Spain. "FEEDFORWARD: Angel of History," group exhibition curated by Christiane Paul & Steve Dietz.

AMERICAN UNIVERSITY MUSEUM, Washington D.C., USA. Solo exhibit of Virtuelle Mauer/ReConstructing the Wall in cooperation with the GOETHE-INSTITUT WASHINGTON. Opening remarks by German Ambassador Klaus Scharioth.

HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. Exhibition of Virtuelle Mauer/ReConstructing the Wall at a special event to commemorate the Fall of the Berlin Wall sponsored by John F. Kennedy School of Government and GOETHE-INSTITUT BOSTON, organized by the McCloy Scholars German-Austrian Caucus. Speakers: German Consul Friedrich Loehr and Harvard Kennedy School Professor Steven Walt.

BERLIN CITY MUSEUM, Ephraim-Palais, Berlin, Germany. Exhibition of Virtuelle Mauer/ReConstructing the Wall in the group show "FALLMAUERFALL | 61-89-09".

[DAM] BERLIN (Digital Art Museum Berlin), Germany. "ReVisioning the Virtual Wall": Collages based on the 3D installation "Virtuelle Mauer/ReConstructing the Wall", Artist team T+T (Tamiko Thiel – Teresa Reuter – Sabe Wunsch)

KUNSTVEREIN WOLFSBURG, Wolfsburg, Germany. Exhibition of Virtuelle Mauer/ReConstructing the Wall in the group show "Reconstructed Zone",

Solo exhibit of Virtuelle Mauer/ReConstructing the Wall at the UNIVERSITY of NEW ENGLAND in cooperation with the GOETHE-INSTITUT BOSTON, in Biddeford, Maine, USA

Solo exhibit of Virtuelle Mauer/ReConstructing the Wall at the WILLY-BRANDT-HAUS. Lubeck, Germany. [pdf brochure]

Exhibition of The Travels of Mariko Horo at the FONDAZIONE QUERINI STAMPALIA, as part of the transnational literary festival INCROCI di CIVILTA', Venice, Italy.

Solo exhibit of Virtuelle Mauer/ReConstructing the Wall at the GOETHE-INSTITUT BOSTON as part of the BOSTON CYBERARTS FESTIVAL, Boston, USA.

Exhibition of The Travels of Mariko Horo in the STAEDTISCHE GALERIE im LEEREN BEUTEL as part of the exhibit "The Catholic Factor," Regensburg, Germany.

Exhibition of the The Totem of Heavenly Wisdom as part of the group exhibit "The Banyan Tree" at the METAHOUSE PHNOM PENH in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, and at the NATIONAL GALLERY in Bangkok, Thailand.

2008
World premiere & solo show of Virtuelle Mauer/ReConstructing the Wall, MUSEUM for COMMUNICATION, Berlin, Germany.

US premiere & solo show of Virtuelle Mauer/ReConstructing the Wall, 911 MEDIA ARTS CENTER, Seattle, USA.

Exhibit of The Travels of Mariko Horo as part as part of the symposium "ANIME Japanese Comics Global," co-hosted by the JAPANESE-GERMAN CENTER BERLIN and the JAPAN FOUNDATION, Engelbrot Theater, Berlin, Germany.

2007
"Global Eyes" Art Gallery show, SIGGRAPH 2007, San Diego, USA.

Solo exhibit of The Travels of Mariko Horo at 911 MEDIA ARTS CENTER in conjunction with the exhibit "Japan Envisions the West: 16th-19th Century Japanese Art from Kobe City Museum" at the Seattle Art Museum.

"The Game is Up!" ARTS CENTRE VOORUIT, Ghent, Belgium.

Web3D ART SHOW 2007, shown at the WEB3D INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM, Perugia, Italy, and during the Takeaway Festival at the Science Museum/Danacenter in London, England.

Player in the online performance Isis: For My Mother. by Marlena Corcoran, shown at the 070707 UPSTAGE FESTIVAL, New Zealand Film Archive, Wellington, New Zealand.

2006
World premiere of The Travels of Mariko Horo, in the group exhibit "Edge Conditions" curated by Steve Dietz for the 01SJ / ISEA 2006 Festival, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, California, USA.

World premiere of In the Land of Babari-an, DANCE 2006 FESTIVAL OF CONTEMPORARY DANCE. Live Butoh dance performance by Shinichi Iova-Koga (inkBoat) and Ishide Takuya using The Travels of Mariko Horo as realtime virtual reality stage set.

"Visual Politics: The Art of Engagement," KATZEN ART CENTER, American University, Washington D.C., USA

"Image War: Contesting Images of Political Conflict," Art Gallery of The Graduate Center at the City University of New York (CUNY), curated by the 2005-06 Curatorial Fellows of the WHITNEY MUSEUM OF ART Independent Study Program.

"Next Level: Die Lust am Spiel in der Netzwerkgesellschaft," KUNSTVEREIN WOLFSBURG, Wolfsburg, Germany.

2005
Retrospective exhibit: "Virtual Reality as Political Art," BOSTON CYBERARTS FESTIVAL / GOETHE-INSTITUT, Boston, MA.

"Geometries of Power," multi-user online event between the GOETHE-INSTITUT in Boston, MA., USA, and PROGRAM ANGELS / LOTHRINGER13, Munich, Germany as part of the BOSTON CYBERARTS FESTIVAL.

"Xenopolis: Von der Faszination und Ausgrenzung des Fremden," KULTURREFERAT der LANDESHAUPTSTADT MUENCHEN, Rathausgalerie, Munich, Germany

"Visual Politics: The Art of Engagement," SAN JOSE MUSEUM of ART, San Jose, CA, USA

"Non-Stop: Ein Projekt zur Ambivalenz von Krieg und Frieden", KUNSTVEREIN WOLFSBURG, Wolfsburg, Germany.

Opening Celebration, ARTS2MEDIA Medienwerkstatt, Regensburg, Germany

2004
"Highlights of the Permanent Collection" (continuing exhibition,) SAN JOSE MUSEUM of ART, San Jose, Silicon Valley, California.

Solo exhibit, Center for Advanced Visual Studies (CAVS), MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, Cambridge, MA.

"Only Skin Deep," SEATTLE ART MUSEUM,Seattle, WA, USA.

for Interactive Digital Storytelling and Entertainment (TIDSE), Darmstadt, Germany.

"Totem of Heavenly Wisdom" shown as part of the traveling BANYAN PROJECT in Tahiti, Cook Islands, Fiji, Bali and Thailand.

2003
" Only Skin Deep," INTERNATIONAL CENTER OF PHOTOGRAPHY, New York, NY, USA.

, KYOTO ART CENTER, Kyoto, Japan.

FILE-2003, Electronic Language International Festival, PACO DAS ARTES, Sao Paulo, Brazil.

"VideoArt Meets NewMusic," ADEVANTGARDE Festival, Gasteig/BlackBox, Munich, Germany.

"Lab3D," CORNERHOUSE, Manchester, England.

"NextArt: Provocations," FLORIDA FILM FESTIVAL, Maitland, Florida, USA.

"RENCONTRES INTERNATIONAL," Paris, France, and Berlin, Germany.

"Web3D Art 2003," shown at the WEB3D INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM, St. Malo, France, and at the following locations:

• The Media Centre, The ICA London, UK
  
• Watershed, Bristol, UK
  
• Media Lounge, Media Centre Huddersfield, UK
  
• Folly Gallery, Lancaster, UK
  
• Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide, Australia
  
• Center of Contemporary Art, Skopje, Macedonia
  
• Ravensbourne College of Communication and Design Gallery

"Highlights of the Permanent Collection," SAN JOSE MUSEUM of ART, San Jose, Silicon Valley, California. Exhibition of the Beyond Manzanar virtual reality installation.

2002
"Highlights of the Permanent Collection", SAN JOSE MUSEUM OF ART, San Jose, CA, USA.

bilder*codes# 1992-2002: 10 Jahre Medienkunst im Dialog ("images*codes# 10 Years of Media Art in Dialog"). Das Goldene Ei (The Golden Seed) video shown as part of the 10th anniversary of the "\\internationalen\medien\kunst\preis" ("\\international\media\art\prize"), ZKM (Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie), Karlsruhe, Germany.

5th Media Arts Festival, TOKYO METROPOLITAN MUSEUM of PHOTOGRAPHY, Tokyo, Japan.

Beyond Manzanar solo exhibition, CENTER FOR RESEARCH ON COMPUTERS IN THE ARTS (CRCA), University of California/San Diego, La Jolla, CA.

Geometries of Power multi-user online collaborative event and artwork, held during FUSION 2002 online event between the BAUHAUS-UNIVERSITY, Weimar, Germany and the Design/Media Dept., UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, USA.

Art Show, WEB3D SYMPOSIUM, Tempe, Arizona, USA.

RHIZOME.LA, Los Angeles, CA. Invitational screening of Beyond Manzanar.

2001
SIGGRAPH N-Space Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA.

COSIGN 2001 Conference on Digital Semiotics of Games and New Media,Amsterdam, Holland.

LOTHRINGER13/LADEN, Munich, Germany. "Beyond Manzanar" solo exhibition,

INTERACTION `01, 4th Biennale: World Forum for Media and Culture, Ogaki City, GIFU, Japan.
Exhibiting "Beyond Manzanar" (with Zara Houshmand) Artist in Residence work.

CHERRY BLOSSOM FESTIVAL, Seattle, WA., USA.

CAST01, "Living in Mixed Realities," GMD/Schloss Birlinghoven, Sankt Augustin, Germany.

"INTERPOESIA - The Hypermedia Poetics." Sao Paolo, Brazil.

CYNETart 2001 , Dresden, Germany.

ART-ADVICE show in the KUNSTGARAGE, Munich, Germany.

KULTURREFERAT MUENCHEN, Munich Germany. Keynote showing of Beyond Manzanar virtual reality installation at inaugural festivities for Lydia Hartl, new head of Munich Cultural Department.

2000
IAMAS Artists-in-Residency Exhibition, TOKYO METROPOLITAN MUSEUM of PHOTOGRAPHY , Tokyo, Japan.

1999
"VRML-ART," VRML99 , Paderborn, Germany.

"VRML-ART,"ELECTRONICA MEDIA ARTS FESTIVAL (EMAF), Osnabrueck, Germany.

1998
"Plugged In," HAINES GALLERY, San Francisco, CA, USA.

"Asian Body," TIDBIT GALLERY, Portland, OR, USA.

"Digital Art Pavilion," PALO ALTO FESTIVAL of the ARTS, Palo Alto, CA, USA.

"Artists' Intersection with Technology," YLEM/WCA exhibit at KORET GALLERY, Palo Alto, CA.

"The Light is Diverse in California," CENTER for VISUAL ART, Oakland, CA.

"NOT STILL ART FESTIVAL," Cooperstown, New York.

1997
"Aurinko - Exhibition of Solar Art," RAUMA MUSEUM of ART, Rauma, Finland. See online gallery at Leonardo Journal's website.

"CHIK TEK 97: Women Artists Defining Technology," ART-TECH GALLERY, San Jose, CA.

"Women and the Art of Multimedia," NATIONAL MUSEUM of WOMEN in the ARTS, Washington DC, USA.

"Dancing for the Camera," AMERICAN DANCE FESTIVAL, Durham, NC, USA.

"Digital Media: Art and Technology," AEA Award Winners' Presentation, BAY AREA VIDEO COALITION (BAVC), San Francisco, CA, USA.

"STIMULUS TRANSMIT," Cable Access Channel 53, San Francisco, CA, USA. My video art work was showcased in the premiere episode of this monthly showcase of independent media artists.

1996
"New Media," Artists' Salon, HEADLANDS CENTER FOR THE ARTS, Marin, CA.

"Brains, Perception and Consciousness," Ylem Forum, EXPLORATORIUM, San Francisco, CA, USA.

1995
"Starbright World: World Launch," Mt. Sinai Hospital, New York, NY, USA.

"Starbright World: A Peek in the Lab," DIGITAL WORLD, Los Angeles, CA, USA.

1993
The Connection Machine CM-2 was exhibited as the processing power behind Karl Sim's "Genetic Images," CENTRE GEORGES POMPIDOU, Paris, France, ARS ELECTRONICA, Linz, Austria and the INTERACTIVE MEDIA FESTIVAL, Los Angeles, CA, USA.

"4th International Sound Basis Visual Arts Festival," WRO 93, Wroclaw, Poland.

"VideoForum," ELDORADO CENTRUM VOOR BEELDCULTUR, Antwerp, Belgium.

1992
Butoh at Johnny Walker's "Art Waves in Front," Tokyo, Japan. Invitational screening of my video Golden Egg , Butoh performance by Kazuo Ohno, photographs of Butoh by Nourit Masson-Sekine.

"Experimental Film and Video Festival," IMAGE FORUM, Tokyo and Osaka, Japan.

"Deutsche Videokunstpreis," ZENTRUM fuer KUNST und MEDIENTECHNOLOGIE (ZKM), Karlsruhe, Germany. Video selected as one of "50 Best" for broadcast on German TV station SUEDWEST 3.

"Videonale 5," BONNER KUNSTVEREIN, Bonn, Germany.

"Videokunst in Muenchen," KUENSTLERWERKSTATT, Munich, Germany.

1991
"Diploma Exhibit," AKADEMIE der BILDENDEN KUENSTE, Munich, Germany.

1988
"The Beauty and the Beast," PROJEKT DANIEL SPOERRI, Munich, Germany.

1987
"Vor dem Hammer," GALERIE KLAUS LEA, Munich, Germany.

REVIEWS & INTERVIEWS

2024
Sung, Peifen. "Never Absent! Women and Digital Art Since 1961," Harper's Bazaar Art China. (Online Chinese original / English translation pdf).

Montes, Claudia. "GLOW: Illuminating Innovation exhibition brightens London with cutting-edge immersive artworks by international women creators," xrmust.com, 26 March.

Scacco, Lorella. "XXI SECOLO Arte immersiva - Un’esperienza multisensoriale," art e dossier #419, April

Delagrange, Julien. "Top 20 Most Famous Digital Artists Today," CAI (Contemporary Art Issue) www.contemporaryartissue.com, 18 April.

2023
Scorzin. Pamela. "Tamiko Thiel Interview: AR Kunstwerke sind - wie die Liebe - real, aber nicht greifbar," KUNSTFORUM International, Vol. 290 "Mixed Realities," (pdf overview) guest editor Pamela Scorzin. Pages 106-125.

Paul, Christiane (Whitney Museum Curator of New Media Art). Digital Art (pdf excerpt), Thames and Hudson World of Art. London. Fourth edition, 2023. Pages 122-124 (Beyond Manzanar); pages 129-133 (Manifest.AR, plus Shades of Absence: Public Voids intervention into the Venice Biennale), pages 133-135 (Unexpected Growth).

Strunden, Paula. "A Line Traced: Female Pioneers in the History of VR. Episode 3: Tamiko Thiel," podcast interview. Architectural Association School of Architecture, London, 29 September.

Haase, Katharina. "#JulietToo", sueddeutsche.de, 06 July.

Praske, Tanja. "#JulietToo von Tamiko Thiel – #MakeUsVisible und virtuelle Gegendenkmäler in München" blog.muenchner-stadtbibliothek.de, 03 July.

Hohmann, Silke. "Michael Findlays VOM WERT DER KUNST geht auf neueste Entwicklungen ein," Monopol, Januar, pp. 124-5.

2022
Findlay, Michael. "The Value of Art: Money, Power, Beauty," 2nd edition, Prestel, 08 Nov, pp. 257-8.

1e9 & xR Hub Bavaria, "Wie die Künstlerin Tamiko Thiel zur XR-Pionierin wurde - und fast für Steve Jobs gearbeitet hätte," New Realities Podcast, 02 Nov.

Brosowsky, Bettina Maria. "Feministin setzt Wolfsburg unter Wasser," taz, 05 Oct.

Fricke, Sabrina. "Feministinnen sind keine verbitterten, alten Tanten," Wolfsburger Allgemeine, 05 Oct.

Ables, Kelsey. "There’s more to the Cherry Blossom Festival than trees," Washington Post, 18 March.

This is Basel. "Reise in die Welt der digitalen Kunst. Zu Gast: Sabine Himmelsbach, Direktorin des HEK (Haus der Elektronischen Künste) und Kuratorin der neuen ARTour." https://www.basel.com/de/podcast/folge-11

Bathurst, Matilda/Arts at MIT. "Unveiling the Invisible: The digital artworks of Tamiko Thiel ’83 expand perception of our immediate environment." arts.mit blog, 22 Nov.

2021
van Straaten, Laura. "At the Smithsonian, an Architectural Treasure Looks Ahead," NY Times, 19 Oct.

Robertson, Jean & McDaniel, Craig. Themes of Contemporary Art: Visual Art after 1980. Oxford University Press, pp. 335 – 337.

Reyes, Ambar. "Moving a Body through Space: An Interview with Tamiko Thiel," Immerse/MIT Open Doc Lab, 08 Sept.

Harrison, Zoe. "1854 Presents: Tamiko Thiel on AI and art," British Journal of Photography, 15 March.

Cook, Sarah. "Maintaining Composure: An Interview with Tamiko Thiel," unthinking photography, The Photographers' Gallery, January.

Lupetti, Matteo. "Digitalizzare il corpo. La mostra virtuale 3D di MEET Milano," artribune.com, 19 March.

Propkopenko, Lesia. "The Travels of Mariko Horo - Interview with Tamiko Thiel," East East, February.

Caune, Helmuts. "We don’t know how, but it works." In www.arterritory.com, March 3.

2020
Sauerländer, Tina. "Über Tamiko Thiel," essay (in German - see pdf excerpt) "I Love Women Artists: Eine publikation zum 100-jährigen jubiläum der Erstzulassung von Frauen an deutschen kunstakademien", Bianca Kennedy and Janine Machkenroth, editors. One hundred women curators, gallerists and collectors write about 100 women artists in Germany.

Fedorova, Ksenia. "Tactics of Interfacing: Encoding Affect in Art and Technology," MIT Press. Essay on my work, pp. 228-230, 234, 237-238, 240. Traynor, Peter. "The Art of Breaking Boundaries: Digital Art at the Cutting Edge." Agora Digital Art, 02 Nov.

Tucha, Aliaksandra. "On the ecosystematic perspective in the arts," in www.arterritory.com, 06 Nov.

Otto, Angelika. "Revolution durch künstlerische Anstöße," NeuroTransmitter, Oktober.

Vintage Computer Festival Midwest. "An interview with TAMIKO THIEL, lead product designer at Thinking Machines Corp.," 12 Sept.

Allroggen, Antje. "Digitalisierung der Museen – Modernisierungsschub durch die Krise", Deutschlandfunk, 04. Juni. Podcast Interview von 10:15 - 13:05 über meine Connection Machine und Unexpected Growth.

Filkorn, Fred. "Projektion zeigt Verschmutzung der Meere," Mittelbayerische Zeitung, Regensburg, 09 März.

2019
Grau, Oliver, Hoth, Janina and Wandl-Vogt, Eveline, eds. "Digital Art through the Looking Glass," (pdf) tredition press, Edition Donau-Universität, Krems, Austria, pp. 10,11.

Bickmann, Isa. "Illusion Natur," Kunstforum International, Cologne, Germany, Vol. 265.

Rapoport, Carla. "Tamiko Thiel and /p," Lumen Prize longlist 2019.

Blakemore, Erin. "Coral grows and dies daily in exhibit that puts visitors in our endangered oceans," Washington Post, March 2.

Danae HI "18 Museums Boosting the Scene of Digital Art," medium.com, March 1.

Meier, Allison C. "An AR Installation Submerges the Whitney Museum in a Coral Reef of Plastic Debris," hyperallergic.com, Feb. 21.

Sayej, Nadja. "Memes, technology and sci-fi: what to expect from art in the US in 2019" The Guardian, Jan. 3.

Asvestopoulos, Sofia. "Illusion Natur im Museum Sinclair-Haus: Natur im digitalen Zeitalter – Symbiose oder Spaltung?," in the ARTicle – Blog für Kunstwissenschaft, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, 12 December.

Berndt, Björn. "Natur als Illusion," männer*, 5 November.

ArtMapp. "Illusion Natur. Digitale Welten."

Knorr, Klaus. "Sinclair-Haus Bad Homburg – Natur digital," Frankfurt|Rhein|Main blog, 20 November.

Vogel, Evelyn. "Ein Riff voll Müll," Süddeutsche Zeitung, Munich, Germany, 9 July.

Vohra, Ambika. "Notes on learning from an engineer-turned-artist," Medium.com, 14 April.

Roque Rodríguez, Anabel. "What Does Success in the Arts Look Like? - Interview XVII with Tamiko Thiel," Anabel Roque Rodríguez Blog, March 5.

Iovino, Serenella. "The Reverse of the Sublime: Dilemmas (and Resources) of the Anthropocene Garden," Rachel Carson Center Perspectives: Transformations in Environment and Society 2019, no. 3

"Reality Re-envisioned: Tamiko Thiel Visits Stamps," School of Art and Design blog, February.

Hodara, Susan. "A 3-D Incunabula of Type," Communication Arts, Jan. 2.

2018
Greenberger, Alex. "The Browser: At the Whitney, 'Programmed' Piquantly Draws Out Connections Between TV and the Internet," in Art News, Nov. 8.

Funes, Yessenia. "Ominous New Art Exhibit Shows Coral Reefs Transformed by Trash," in Earther/Gizmodo, Sept. 28.

Madson, Diana. "Augmented reality art exhibit shows how people are harming corals," yaleclimateconnections.org, December 28.

Huffman, Kathy Rae. "Unexpected Growth by Tamiko Thiel at the Whitney Museum of American Art" in digicult.it, November.

Blouin Artinfo, " Programmed: Rules, Codes, and Choreographies in Art, 1965-2018' at the Whitney," Blouin Art Info, Sept. 1.

Herwig, Oliver. "Die Kunst des Bewahrens" in @Privatbank 1796, Hauck und Aufhaeuser Privatbank, Oktober.

"Can You Make Art By Algorithm?" Hungar, Sept. 7.

goop. "The Best Art Shows to See Right Now," goop.com, Sept. 27.

Nielsen, Erik. "Programmed: Rules, Codes, and Choreographies in Art," Musée - Vanguard of Photography Culture, Oct. 17.

"'Programmed: Rules, Codes, and Choreographies in Art, 1965-2018': do video à arte computacional," Maputo Fast Forward, Sept. 9.

Stigler, Britt. "The Whitney Looks At Intersection of Technology and Art," All Arts, Sept. 28.

Herwig, Oliver. "The Self, the World, and Dissolving Distinctions," Goethe-Institut New York blog, September.

Noyes, Chandra."The Artist as Coder: the Whitney Looks at Programming in Art," Art & Object,Sept. 28.

Tanni, Valentina. "Programmed. Una mostra del Whitney Museum di New York racconta le istruzioni nell'arte," Artribune, Sept. 30.

Wang, Rena. "'Programmed: Rules, Codes, And Choreographies In Art, 1965-2018' Opens At The Whitney," The Knockturnal, Oct.2.

Barratt, Bianca. "This is some serious trash art," Living it, Oct. 29.

Blouin Artinfo, "At the Whitney, Taking Aim at the Digital Age," Blouin Art Info, Oct. 10.

Wright, Rewa. "Interface Is the Place: Augmented Reality and the Phenomena of Smartphone–Spacetime." (download pdf here) Chapter in the book Mobile Story Making in an Age of Smartphones, Palgrave Pivot, April.

Kurchanova, Natasha. "Programmed: Rules, Codes and Choreographies in Art, 1965-2018," Studio International, 13 Dec.

2017
Schwab, Katharine. "The Female Supercomputer Designer Who Inspired Steve Jobs" Fast Company Co.Design, Nov. 16.

Farago, Jason. "Virtual Reality Has Arrived in the Art World. Now What?" New York Times, Feb. 3 (Feb. 5 in the print edition under the title, "Plunging Into Artists’ Twilight Zones.")

McClenaghan, Alyssa. "Days later, I reflect: NYC Armory Week," openhouseblog.nyc, March.

Madson, Diane. "Artist Exhibits Dystopian Vision in Seattle Park," podcast on yaleclimateconnections.org, January 16.

Granada, Stephanie. "10 Artists on What Climate Change Actually Looks Like," outsideonline.com, August 3.

Hautala, Elke. "These Seattle AR Pioneers want to connect you to the city of the future," Undercurrents, Feb. 15.

Whang, Eric H. "Virtual reality in digital art," www.tiltfactor.org, Feb. 3.

Stock, Naomi. "Is Virtual Reality the Future of Art?", Art Business Journal, July 25.

2016
Gessner, Ingrid. "Tamiko Thiel's virtual reality installations as sites of learning in and beyond the museum," Taylor and Francis, 24 September.

Paul, Christiane. "Augmented Realities: Digital Art in the Public Sphere," in A Companion to Public Art (Blackwell Companions to Art History), Knight, Cher Krause, and Senie, Harriet F., ed., pp. 218-219.

JWT Intelligence Future 100 2017 report featured Gardens of the Anthropocene (on p27) as AR top trend for 2017.

Laughlin, Shepherd. "Augmented Reality Evolves," www.jwtintelligence.com, 28 October.

Medlock, Katie. "Dystopian AR art installation shows how plants might adapt to rising global temperatures," inhabitat.com, 30 September.

Blakemore, Erin. "Augmented reality art imagines what could be Seattle's weird bleak future," www.smithsonianmag.com, 19 September.

Andrews, Eve. "Can climate change be beautiful? In virtual reality, sure.," grist.org, 20 September.

Wachs, Audrey. "Wander though a lush, pre-apocalyptic virtual garden at the Seattle Art Museum," archpaper.com, 01 September.

Pangburn, DJ. "Seattle's Climate-Changed Future Rises in a New Installation," thecreatorsproject.vice.com, 29 August.

Kiley, Brendan. "Bloom and doom: Pokémon Go-like art project explores climate change," www.seattletimes.com, 29 August.

Galore, Janet. "my favorite things tour at SAM Remix," janetgalore.com/, 27 August.

MIT Arts, Culture and Technology Program. " ACT alumni exhibiting around the world: Tamiko Thiel, MEE '83, CAVS Fellow '04-05," act.mit.edu, August.

" Must-see exhibitions at SAM," (in Japanese) www.junglecity.com, August.

SARAJO. "Gardens of the Anthropocene: inside a climate-changed future", conservation.uw.edu, 24 June.

Bosco, Roberta and Caldano, Stefano. "Otra realidad es posible," www.fundacionaquae.org/blog.

Achtelik, Anna. "Interrogating the Sublime: Reconstructions," (pdf excerpt), Transdiscourse 2: Turbulence and Reconstruction, Editor Jill Scott, De Gruyter, Berlin, pp. 158-161.

Wright, Rewa. "Augmented Reality as Experimental Art Practice: from Information Overlay to Software Assemblage," see also video, academia.edu, (ISEA2016 Hong Kong).

"Museum Day 2016: Asian Pacific American Museums," Wing Luke Museum features Brush the Sky on the SMITHSONIAN Asian Pacific America website.

Forni, Ivo. "Il linguaggio della realtà aumentata attraverso l'opera di Tamiko Thiel," Università La Sapienza, Rome, 3 July.

2015
Paul, Christiane (Whitney Museum Curator of New Media Art). Digital Art (pdf excerpt), Thames and Hudson World of Art. London. Third edition, 2015. Pages 130-132 ("Beyond Manzanar"); 238-240 (Manifest.AR, plus "Shades of Absence: Public Voids" intervention into the Venice Biennale).

Wright, Rewa. " Mobile Augmented Reality Art and the Politics of Re-assembly," ISEA2015 proceedings, Vancouver B.C.

Uradomo-Barre, Stacey. CONSTRUCT\S exhibition catalog, WING LUKE MUSEUM / SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION AFFILIATE, Seattle, USA, pp. 26 – 33.

Sabapathy, T.K. and Lim, Michelle. ADM 10th Anniversary Faculty Show "Beyond the Horizon" Catalog, Nanyang Technological University (NTU ADM), Singapore.

Ganivet, Elisa. "Esthétique du mur géopolitique: un essai. Interprétations artistiques des barrières de séparation," Presses de l'Université du Québec, 2015.

2014
Wright, Rewa. "From the Bleeding Edge of the Network: Augmented Reality and the 'software assemblage,'" academia.edu.

Scheller, Jörg. "Die Kunst mit dem Klick" DIE ZEIT, Hamburg, Germany. Nr. 27/2014, 26. Juni.

Stratton, Rachel. "Interview with Tamiko Thiel," Unknown Quantities Magazine, CENTRAL SAINT MARTINS / UNIVERSITY of the ARTS, London, UK.

"Fractured Visions: To See Again," Wall Street International Magazine, August 20.

Liao, Tony & Humphreys, Lee. "Layar-ed places: Using mobile augmented reality to tactically reengage, reproduce, and reappropriate public space," New Media & Society, SAGE Publications, October 2015, Vol. 17 no. 9 1418-1435. First published online on March 19, 2014.

"Tamiko Thiel: Exciting New Digital Artwork Augments Reality At The Shard," www.artlyst.com, August 8.

Gould, Amanda Starling. "Invisible Visualities: Augmented Reality Art and the Contemporary Media Ecology," Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies, Special Issue "Cultural Expression in Mixed and Augmented Reality," eds. Jay Bolter & Maria Engberg, Vol. 20(1) 25–32.

2013
"Not Here Not There" Part 2. [ Tamiko Thiel featured artist - pdf ] Leonardo Electronic Almanac, Volume 19 Issue 2. Editors Lanfranco Aceti, Richard Rinehart, Ozden Sahin. Pages 5, 17-18, 24-25, 118-119, 210-219.

Winerman, Lea. "Reality Bytes," Washington Post Express, August 15, 2013.

Garrett, Marc. "Disrupting The Gaze: Art Intervention and the Tate Gallery," Furtherfield on academia.edu, from February 7, 2013: .

Briggs, Ibiayi. "Plug-In Istanbul," , November 8, 2013.

Clay, Art and Rut, Monika. “The Art of Augmenting Reality,” Tafter Journal, No.66, December 2013.

Bolognini, Yves & Stamm, Marielle, ed. Disparition programmee: Le Musee Bolo mene l'enquete (Programmed Disappearance: The Bolo Museum Investigates), Bolo Museum, Concepte Fondation Memoires Informatiques, Press polytechniques et universitaires romandes, Lausanne, 2013, pp 116-117.

Lodi, Simona. "Illegal Art and Other Stories," Unlike Us Reader. Social Media Monopolies and Their Alternatives, Ed. Geert Lovink, Miriam Rash, Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures, 2013, pp 250-251.

Gould, Amanda Starling. "Invisible Visualities: Augmented reality art and the contemporary media ecology," Convergence International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies, 12 December 2013.

Schianchi, Alejandro. "Location-based virtual interventions," Not Here Not There Part 2, Leonardo Electronic Almanac, Volume 19 Issue 2. Editors Lanfranco Aceti, Richard Rinehart, Ozden Sahin, July 2013, page 119.

2012
Sterling, Bruce. "Augmented Reality: ManifestAR at ZERO1 Biennial 2012," WIRED, Sept. 16, 2012.

Waelder, Pau. "White Cube Augmented: AR Art and the Gallery Space," etc Magazine, Montreal, Oct. 2012 - Feb. 2013, pp. 53-57. [double-page pdf] [single-page pdf]

Tanni, Valentina. "Dio-Hirst alla Tate Modern," artribune.com, Italy, March 30, 2012

1F Media Project. "DAMIEN HIRST – TATE MODERN | LONDON," 1fmediaproject.net, Italy, April 4, 2012

"Damien Hirst." Dutch art history webpage on Damien Hirst features "All Hail Damien Hirst" www.kunstgeschiedenis.jouwweb.nl

2011
Quaranta, Domenico. "Venezia: La Realtà Aumentata," Flash Art Italy, July/September 2011, p 33.

Interview with Tamiko Thiel (video) by Lanfranco Aceti,Editor-in-chief of Leonardo Electronic Almanac, Professor of Contemporary Art and Digital Culture at Sabanci University, Istanbul and the Director of its Kasa Gallery, and Director of ISEA 2011.

Bosco, Roberta. "La Bienal que emerge a traves del movil," in El Pais, Madrid, Spain, June 12, 2011.

Ippolito, Jon. " Are you in the Biennale, or aren't you? Both, thanks to Augmented Reality, " [pdf] www.nmdnet.org, June 13, 2011

Waelder, Pau. "Los pabellones invisibles," http://laboralcentrodearte.uoc.edu/, June 20, 2011.

Paul, Christiane. "Measuring Disturbances: How Media Look at the World," www.artpulsemagazine.com,

Richards, Sara. "Reconstructing the Berlin Wall, Virtually," www.npr.org, 16 August.

Rackham, Melinda. "divisible Istanbul," [pdf of print article] real time, Sydney, Australia, Dec.2011/Jan.2012, pp. 22-23.

Steinberg, Claudia. "Mit Happenings gegen das Establishment," Kunstzeitung, Regensburg, Germany, Nov.2011, p.19.

Fong, Cherise. "Augmented Reality: Through the Mobile Looking Glass (English extract)," in MCD musiques & cultures digitales, Hors-série #6 Internet des Objets / Internet of things, France, Jan./Feb. 2011. [Full article in French and English]

Seaman, Bill. "The Cheonggyecheon Project," Art of Communication catalog, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea. pp113/115.

2010
Smith, Matthew. "Liquid Walls: The Digital Art of Tamiko Thiel" in the Performing Arts Journal (PAJ), MIT Press, Sept.2010, Vol. 32, No. 3 (PAJ 96), pp. 25-34.

Fidel, Alexander. "Art Gets Unmasked in the Palm of Your Hand" [ pdf version here ] New York Times, New York, USA. December 1, 2010.

Porter, Eduardo. "Is That a Dagger I See on My iPhone?" New York Times, New York, USA. Oct. 22, 2010, p.A34

Conroy-Randall, Britta. "Guerilla Artists Stage MoMA Invasion" on NPR (National Public Radio) "All Things Considered" and on the WNYC website, New York, USA. Oct. 15 2010.

Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) New York tweets our intervention: "Nice, looks like we're having an "uninvited" AR exhibition tomorrow!", Oct. 8, 2010.

Sterling, Bruce. "Augmented Reality: AR uninvited at MOMA NYC," WIRED Magazine, Oct. 6, 2010.

Lieser, Wolf. "The World of Digital Art" (hardcover coffee table edition), Ullman/Tandem Verlag, Koenigswinter, Germany.

Quiroz, Marcela. "Orientalism, Occidentalism and other myths of origin," Fahrenheit Contemporary Arts, online and print magazine in English (pdf), French (pdf) and Spanish (see pp.102-104) .

Tischler, Gary. "Wall-to-Wall Window: Berlin 20 Years Later: Monumental Fall Gives Rise to Memory." The Washington Diplomat, November 18.

"Life on either side of Checkpoint Charlie," The Hindu, Bangalore, India. January 12, page 2.

"Critic's Choice," page 51, and "Virtuelle Mauer/Re-Constructing the Wall," page 49, Time Out Bengaluru, Bangalore, India. Jan.8-21.

Naizer, Nizla. "In the Shadow of the Wall," The Daily Financial Times, Colombo, Sri Lanka, Jan. 10.

"Berlin Wall Virtual Reality," The Nation, Colombo, Sri Lanka, Jan. 10.

Lobo, Kevin. "Bringing down walls," Mumbai Mirror, 5 Feb.

"Se l'arte è multimediale," Corriere Fiorentino, 19 Oct.
2009 Smee, Sebastian. " Critic's picks - visual arts," in the Boston Globe, Boston, MA, USA., May 3, 2009.

Smee, Sebastian. " In cyberart, technology trumps imagination," in the Boston Globe, Boston, MA, USA., May 1, 2009.

Hadge, Kara. "Virtual Berlin - In Two Parts," in the Boston Phoenix, Boston, MA, USA., April 17, 2009.

Elish, M.C. "Navigating Virtual Space," in the Boston Cyberarts Blog, Boston, MA, USA., April 17, 2009.

Garza, Evan. "Keepin' it real - sort of," in the Boston Phoenix, Boston, MA, USA., April 15, 2009.

Czapski, Maciek & Schnurer, Christian, curators. " Der katholishe Faktor," (exhibition catalog), Berufsverband Bildenden Kuenstler Niederbayern/Oberpfalz e.V., Regensburg, Germany, pp. 178-179.

Lieser, Wolf. "Digital Art," (Art Pocket series), Ullman/Tandem Verlag, Königswinter, Germany, pp 104-105

Kunimatsu, Susan. "Reviving History: Reconstructing the Berlin Wall," in the International Examiner, Volume 36 No. 01, Seattle, WA, USA., January 7, 2009.

Cringely, Robert. "Parallel Universe," (featuring photo of the CM-2 on page 3), Tech Review, Cambridge, MA, USA, January/February 2009.

Gessner, Ingrid. "Moving Beyond Manzanar (pdf excerpt): Transnationalizing Japanese American Internment Experiences." Virtually American? Denationalizing North American Studies. Ed. Mita Banerjee. Heidelberg: Winter, 2009. pp77-96.

Goethe-Institut 3.09. "Virtuelle Mauer/ReConstructing the Wall," in Geteilte Welten. Der Mauerfall und seine Folgen, und was aus den neuen Freiheiten geworden ist. Page 36.

2008
Shimp, Rachel. " Explore a virtual Berlin Wall at 911 Media Arts," Seattle Times, Seattle, WA, USA. December 26, 2008.

Taylor, Jonathan. "VIRTUELLE MAUER: An Interview with Tamiko Thiel," in ONSCREEN magazine, Seattle, USA, November 2008.

Steinberg, Claudia. "Tamiko Thiels virtuelle Projekte," (pdf in German), in Kunstzeitung, #146, Germany, October 2008, p.30.

Hippel, Achim. " Die Rückkehr der Mauer," (prime time TV broadcast,) Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg RBB, Berlin, Germany, August 13, 2008.

van Bebber, Werner. "Die Mauer wird wieder aufgebaut - am Computer," Tagesspiegel, Berlin, Germany, August 12m 2008.
Click here for the online article; click here for the newspaper version (different images!)

Jekosch, M. (Text) and Brandl, Thomas (Video). "Mit dem Joystick durch duestere Zeiten," ( online: text plus streaming video,) Tagesspiegel, Berlin, Germany, August 14, 2008.

Brendel, Gerd. "Virtuelle Mauer - per 3D in die Teilungszeit,"(podcast,) on Deutschlandradio, Germany, August 13, 2008.
Minh, Kev. " With(in/out) Borders," in Ethnically Incorrect, USA. Posted December 23, 2008.

Stephan, Inge and Tacke, Alexandra. NachBilder der Wende, Böhlau Verlag, Cologne, Germany.

2007
Smith, Matthew Wilson. THE TOTAL WORK of ART: From Bayreuth to Cyberspace, Routledge, New York, 2007. pp 180-186.(see pdf excerpt on Beyond Manzanar)

Gessner, Ingrid. From Sites of Memory to Cybersights: (Re)Framing Japanese American Experiences, Universitätsverlag Winter, 2007.

Gessner, Ingrid. "Erasure and Visual Recovery: Displaying Japanese American Internment Experiences." Visual Culture Revisited: German and American Perspectives on Visual Culture. Ed. Ralf Adelmann et al. Köln: Herbert von Halem Verlag, pp. 216-242.

Hauffen, Michael. "Next Level, Kunstverein Wolfsburg," KUNSTFORUM International, March-April 2007, Vol. 184, pp 113-115.

Gei Chan. " The Travels of Mariko Horo trips out in Seattle," NW ASIAN WEEKLY, (www.nwasianweekly.com), Nov.3-9 2007,

2006
Wu, Irene. "A Virtual Sojourn" rhizome.org, 09 Aug.

Hentschlaeger, Ursula. " Im Land der Barbaren," artmagazine.cc (www.artmagazine.cc)

Schneider, Katja. " Der Tanz bin ich," tanznetz.de (www.tanznetz.de)

Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program, catalog for the exhibit Image war : contesting images of political conflict. Images at online pages #6, #34, #37.

O'Sullivan, Michael. "The Liberal Rules of 'Engagement'," Washington Post, April 28, p. WE51.

Kennicott, Philip. "You Shouldn't Have! On the NEA's 40th, the Art of Politics," Washington Post, May 15, p. C01

Booter-Freak. "Dude! @_@" Quote: "this thing is HIGHLY ADDICTIVE. And weird. Really weird." deviantart.com, October 4, 2006.

2005
Dueker, Ronald. "Jenseits von Wolfsburg," netzeitung.de, June 2.

2004
MIT News Office and MIT Tech Talk. "Viewers interact with new exhibit on U.S. internment camps", MIT TECH TALK, Volume 48, Number 25, April 28, 2004.

2003
Paul, Christiane, Whitney Museum curator of new media. "Digital Art," Thames and Hudson World of Art series, New York, NY. Here is a pdf excerpt of pp. 130-132 and an html excerpt of Chapter 2.

Colasanto, Cristina. "Only Skin Deep," USItalia online magazine.

2002
Mosher, Mike. "The Interaction '01: Dialogue with Expanded Images," Leonardo Digital Review, Leonardo Online, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA.

Wurster, Christian. Computers: Eine Illustrierte Geschichte, Taschen Verlag, Koeln, 2002, pp 98-100, 322-333. (Published simultaneously in English as Computers: An Illustrated History.)

"the pioneers," e-magic Cyber Media Events Catalog, 43rd Thessaloniki International Film Festival, Greece.

Naimark, Michael. "Review: Interaction '01," Diatxt.06, Kyoto Art Center, March 19, 2002, pp. 077-079 (Japanese) and p. 126 (English.)

"Web 3D Art 2002, net art tridimensionale," Neural Magazine online, Italy.

2001
Hauffen, Michael. "Tamiko Thiel und Zara Houshmand: Beyond Manzanar," (Deutsch / English) Springerin, Band Vii Heft 2, Juni-September 2001, pp. 75,76.

Herbst, Katja. "Medienkünstlerin," SAT1/Bayern Journal, (German TV), 24. März 2001.

Kücklich, Julian. "COSIGN 2001 - Ein Bericht," Medienobservationen, 24. März 2001.

Vu, Khanh. "The Story behind 'Beyond Manzanar'," NW Nikkei / North American Post, Vol. 18 No.17, April 21, 2001, pp.2,5.

"Sakuramatsuri ni kitai: Beyond Manzanar," on front Page of Hokubei Houchi/ North American Post (in Japanese), Vol. 57 No.29, April 18, 2001, pp.2,5.

2000
Photo essay on Beyond Manzanar published in the premier issue of the new Japanese critical theory journal Diatxt.01, Kyoto Art Center, Vol. 1, June 2000, pp.65 - 72.

Richard, Birgit. "Vergehen Konservieren Uploaden. Strategien für die Ewigkeit", Kunstforum, Vol. 151, July – September 2000, Page 50.

"Future Computer Image Suggested in the Abacus," AXIS Design Magazine, March/April 2000, pp. 37-41.

Houshmand, Zara. "Never to repeat. Hopefully. Art inspired by prejudice"The Iranian, December 12, 2000.

1998
Gelernter, David. "Beyond the Grey Box," ID Magazine, Vol. 45 #2, March/April 1998, page 60.

Greenman, Catherine. "Network Helps Children Cope With Serious Illness," New York Times, May 28, 1998, page D6.

Koski, Janne. "Aurinko - Sun: Solar Art" at the Rauma Museum, Finland, Leonardo Journal, MIT Press, Vol.31 #2, 1998, pp. 81-86. The article is also on-line at The Leonardo Electronic Art Gallery.

Cohn, Terri. "Chik Tek '97 at Art-Tech," Artweek Magazine, Vol.29 No.2, February 1998, page 17.

1997
Jana, Reena. "Chik-Tek Spotlights Women in New-Media Art," WIRED Magazine, 03 Nov.

Richard, Birgit. "Digitale Todesbilder: Künstliches Leben, virtueller Tod," Zukünfte, 1, 1997. Sekretariat für Zukunftsforschung, Essen, Germany, pp. 23-26.

Sherman, Ann Elliott. "Return to Gender," Metro/ San Jose, December 11-17, 1997, page 42.

Levander, Michelle. "Sick Kids Shine in Virtual World," San Jose Mercury News, June 19, 1997, Peninsula section.

Jones, Rochelle, "Star Power," People Magazine, December 1 1997, page 61.

Damer, Bruce. Interview with Tamiko Thiel, Producer/Creative Director of Starbright World, Avatars '97 Conference.

Wawra, Christine, unpublished essay:

• "Glut und Tanz: Sinnlichkeit in den Videos von Tamiko Thiel," (Deutsch)
• "Fire and Dance: Sensuality in the video art of Tamiko Thiel," (English)

1996
Richard, Birgit. " Schöne neue Welt. Super- Computer, künstliche Ambiente und Design- Fiktionen für das Leben im Netz," Virtualität contra Realität. Schriftenreihe der Burg Giebichenstein, Halle, Germany, 1996

McCarthy, Susan. "the good deed," WIRED Magazine, September.

Dunn, Ashley. "Meeting, Sharing, Healing While Exploring a Virtual World of Play," New York Times Cyber Times Extra, January 23, 1996

Smolan, Rick and Erwitt, Jennifer. 24 Hours in Cyberspace, Que Macmillan, 1996, page 161.

"Best and Brightest Earn CJs (Virtual Reality Product of the Year awards),"CyberEdge Journal, Sausalito, California, Issue #30, Vol. 6, No.2, Sept./Oct. 1995, pp. 6 - 7.

1995
Sperlich, Tom. "Trost und Wärme on line," Die Zeit Nr. 26, June 23, 1995

Hellmich, Nanci. "A computer playspace to ease suffering," Cover story for USA Today, Wed., Nov. 8.

Stephenson, Joan, PhD. "Sick Kids Find Help in a Cyberspace World." Journal of the American Medical Association, Volume 274, No. 24. December 27, 1995 pp. 1899 - 1901.

Bennett, Tamara, "Starbright: Best of Broadband," Convergence, Denver, Colorado. December 1995

Hamit, Francis. "Spielberg Demonstrates Starbright Virtual Playground," CyberEdge Journal, Sausalito, California, Issue #27, Vol. 5, No.3, Sept./Oct. 1995, pp. 6 - 8.

Mancall, Kathy, "A World of Possibilities," ComputerLife, Sept. 1995, page 34.

Lewis, Peter H. "Virtual Reality and Virtual Spaces Find a Niche in Real Medicine." New York Times, June 5, 1995.

Krumenaker, Larry. "Spielplatz in einer anderen Welt," Focus, #48, 1995 S. 216 - 217.

Harmon, Amy, "E.T. Reaches Out." Los Angeles Times, June 6, 1995.

Rosenberg, Scott, "A virtual playground for hospitalized children," San Francisco Examiner, June 6, 1995, page B1.

Clark, Don, "The High Road on the Highway: Helping Sick Kids Play Together." Wall Street Journal, May 10 1995, page B1.

Richard, Birgit " Todesbilder. Kunst, Subkultur, Medien." Monograph, Munich

1994
Opalka, William, "Children's Hospital to test Spielberg concept for kids," Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, Vol. 106 No. 240, October 4 1994.

1992
Arimoto, Masatsugu, "Connection Machine: Let the machine speak for itself." (pdf in Japanese and English), AXIS Design Magazine, Number 45, Tokyo, Japan, pp. 132-133.

1991
Gudrat, Petra. "Portraet: Tamiko Thiel, Maschinenbauingenieurin und Video-Kuenstlerin," Sueddeutsche Zeitung, Sept. 4.

1988
Wie. "Verspielt, unterhaltsam. Eine Ausstellung der Muenchener Akademieklasse Daniel Spoerri," Sueddeutsche Zeitung>.

"Creating the Optimal Link Between Man and Machine: The Design Work of Gordon Bruce." (pdf in Japanese and English), AXIS Design Magazine, Winter1988. Interview with Gordon Bruce, co-designer of the Connection Machine CM-1/CM-2.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

March 2024
ASU Tempe. Visiting Artist in Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality, Department of Image Science.

Dec 2019
Danube University Krems, Austria. Seminar on History, Theory and Practice of Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality, Department of Image Science.

Winter semester 2018-2019 (October-January)
Joint appointment as visiting professor at the Kunstuniversität Linz (aka University of Art and Design) and the University of Applied Science Hagenberg, both in Austria. Virtual Reality Workshop and Hackathon project.

Summersemester 2018 (March-September)
Kunstuniversität Linz (aka University of Art and Design), Linz, Austria. Visiting Professor of Augmented Reality, Department of Interface Cultures

Semester2 2014 & 2015 (January-May)
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Visiting Associate Professor in the School of Art, Design and Media.

Winter Semester (October 2011- February 2012)
BERLIN UNIVERSITY OF THE ARTS, Berlin, Germany. Visiting Professor for Technologies of Non-linear Dramaturgies at the Institute of Time-Based Media.

September 2003
KYOTO ART CENTER, Kyoto, Japan. Taught bilingual Japanese/English workshop "Constructing the Unknown World" on imagining and constructing the unknown world, based on examples from European and Japanese art history and cartography.

October 2002
BAUHAUS-UNIVERSITY, Weimar, Germany. Taught workshop (in German) in Interactive 3D Virtual Reality in the Media Design program jointly with Peter Graf from the Media Systems program. The piece produced during the workshop, Geometries of Power, a multi-user online collaborative artspace, was presented online during the Fusion02 event between the Bauhaus and the University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA).

Winter Quarter 2002 (January - March 2002) 
UNIVERSITY of CALIFORNIA, San Diego, California, USA. Taught a studio class in virtual reality, a seminar class on artificial intelligence and genetic engineering, and a senior projects class in the Department of Visual Arts.

Spring Quarter 1999
CITY COLLEGE of SAN FRANCISCO, San Francisco, CA, USA. Developed and taught a class in multimedia process and production.

Spring Semester 1994 (January - June 1994) 
CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY, Pittsburgh, PA, USA. Visiting Associate Professor of Design. Developed and taught two classes: Modern Fetishes, Relics and Totems (design theory and studio project) and Do Machines Have Souls? (design theory).

1993
MEDIENLABOR MUENCHEN, Munich, Germany. Taught workshops in video art.

1982-1983
MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE of TECHNOLOGY, Cambridge, MA, USA.

• Media Lab (Visual Language Workshop): Taught video art workshops.
• Department of Mechanical Engineering: Teaching Assistant for FORTRAN programming class.

ART and TECHNOLOGY POSITIONS

2019-2021
AR artistic and technical advisor to the HIDDEN HISTORIES San Jose Japantown project, in collaboration with the JAPANESE AMERICAN MUSEUM of SAN JOSE (JAMsj). Helped win initial funding from the KNIGHT FOUNDATION Immersive Technology in the Arts award.

2018
ARpoise open source augmented reality platform co-founder as artistic advisor (with Peter Graf, technical director).

2017
Co-organizer (with Caroline Sinders) of FACETS Un-Conference on Art and Artificial Intelligence, GOETHE-INSTITUT NEW YORK

2012-2016
Artistic and technical advisor to the CARIBBEAN CULTURAL CENTER - AFRICAN DIASPORA INSTITUTE (CCCADI) in East Harlem, New York City, for the "Mi Querido Barrio" mobile augmented reality art, culture and history tour. Co-wrote successful grant proposal to win a ROCKEFELLER FOUNDATION Cultural Innovation Fund award for the project.

Co-organizer of Manifest.AR ARtSense commission, FACT, Liverpool.

2011
Main curator and organizer for VENICE BIENNIAL 2011 Manifest.AR augmented reality intervention.

2010
Co-founded Manifest.AR, augmented reality artists group.

2009
Co-curated a Munich Video Art Compilation for the Upgrade! Munich.

2007
Virtual Reality (VRML) Workshop at the Ecole Superieure d'Art, Aix en Provence, France.

2005
Founded Upgrade! Munich, monthly meeting of media artists in Munich and member of the international network The Upgrade.

1998 - 1999
BRIGHTLIGHT, San Francisco, CA, USA. Technical writer for Brightlight's anti-spam software ( //www.brightlight.com/).

1994 - 1996
WORLDS, INC., San Francisco, CA, USA. Creative Director and Producer of Starbright World, a multi-user networked virtual reality playspace for seriously ill children, for the Starbright Foundation (Steven Spielberg, chairman.) Defined creative vision of project, managed content team of artists and programmers. Final demo involved kids on stage in New York with Steven Spielberg and General Norman Schwartzkopf, networked together with kids at 4 hospitals around the country.

1992
OMNIBUS JAPAN, Tokyo, Japan: Consulted on user interface for Japanese versions of Side Effects Software's Prism 3D computer graphic animation software.

1991
THINKING MACHINES CORPORATION, Cambridge, MA, USA. Consulted on packaging and industrial design of the Connection Machine CM-5 supercomputer.

1986 - 1991
SOFTLAB GmbH, Munich, Germany. Technical writer and translator for English language documentation for Softlab's CASE products (Computer-Aided Software Engineering.)

1983 - 1985
THINKING MACHINES CORPORATION, Cambridge, MA, USA. Head of Packaging and Industrial Design for the Connection Machines CM-1 and CM-2, the first commercially available massively parallel supercomputers. Co-holder of CM-1 patent for "Method for Interconnecting Processors in Hyper-Dimensional Array." There are Connection Machines in the collections of the COMPUTER MUSEUM, Boston, MA and the Museum of American History, SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, Washington DC, USA.

1979 - 1981
HEWLETT-PACKARD, SUNNYVALE, CA, USA. Packaging Design Engineer. Two computer terminal products released to the market.

Publications

2022
"Lichtsicht7 Projection Triennial in Bad Rothenfelde" catalog. Michael Bielicky and Paul Kenig, editors. lichtsicht gemeinnützige Veranstaltungsgesellschaft mbH. Pages 6, 18, 19, 54, 55.

2019
"Strange Growth" augmented reality artwork (with /p) published in VECTOR artist book, Guest Editor Birthe Blauth, Managing Editors, Peter Gregorio and Javier Barrios. Book launch at Kunstverein Munich.

"Water Lily Invasion" (p.11) and "Unexpected Growth" (with /p, p.18) augmented reality artworks published in Convergence: How The World Will Be Painted With Data, Editor Charlie Fink, Convergence Press.

2017
"Artwork: Tamiko Thiel," Augmented Reality: Innovative Perspectives across Art, Industry, and Academia, Morey,Sean and Tinnell, John, Ed. Parlor Press, Anderson, SC, USA, pp. 271-275.

2016
"Assemblage and Décollage in Virtual Public Space" (with Will Pappenheimer), NMC|Media-N Journal of the New Media Caucus, CAA Conference Edition, Summer 2016.

2014
"Site Venice Site Biennale," extract), in AR[t] Magazine, AR Lab (joint project: Royal Academy of Art/The Hague (KABK), Delft University of Technology, Leiden University). Issue 5, May 2014, pp. 29-33.

"Critical Interventions into Canonical Spaces,” (download my final draft as pdf) Chapter 2 of the book Augmented Reality Art, ed. Vladimir Geroimenko. Springer Verlag, Heidelberg, Germany.

2013
My drawings for the Connection Machine CM-1/CM-2 were published in: Obtulowicz, Adam. "Multigraphical membrane systems revisited," Lecture Notes in Computer Science Vol. 7762, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, pp. 311-322.

2012
“ the Invisible: Manifest.AR Augmented Reality Intervention at the Hayward Gallery,” practicebased.re blog.

2011
"UNCONTAINABLE ," Catalog of the 17th International Symposium on Electronic Art ISEA2011 Istanbul. See excerpt "Invisible Istanbul" and excerpt "Not There."

"Cyber-Animism and Augmented Dreams," Leonardo Electronic Almanac (LEA), Istanbul, April 2011.

2010
"Rhetorics of the Interactive 3D Installation 'Virtuelle Mauer/ReConstructing the Wall'" (with Teresa Reuter), conference proceedings for ICIDS (International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling), Edinburgh, UK. Ruth Aylett et al., eds.:ICIDS LNCS 6432, pp. 129-140, Springer-Verlag, Berlin / Heidelberg.

"The Design of the Connection Machine" (pdf) reprinted in The Designed World: Images, Objects, Environments, Richard Buchanan, Dennis Doordan and Victor Margolin, Ed. Berg, New York, pp. 155-166.

2009
"Where Stones Can Speak: Dramatic Encounters in Interactive 3D Virtual Reality," chapter in the book Third Person: Authoring and Exploring Vast Narratives, (pdf) ed. Pat Harrigan & Noah Wadrup-Fruin, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, USA.

2007
"Life at the Interface of Art and Technology," ON SCREEN, 911 Media Arts Center, Seattle, WA., USA. Winter 2007, Vol. 18 No.1, pp. 32-34.

2004
"Beyond Manzanar: Creating Dramatic Structure in Ergodic Narratives," Published in the conference proceedings for Technologies for Interactive Digital Storytelling and Entertainment (TIDSE, now subsumed into the ICIDS conference), Darmstadt, Germany, June 24-26, 2004, Springer Berlin / Heidelberg.

2003
Reader: Lab3D and Web3D Art, Kathy Rae Huffman and Melinda Rackham, editors. , Manchester, England, June 2003.

"Beyond Manzanar: Planting Gardens of the Heart in a Virtual Prison" (with Zara Houshmand), [Two] Factorial, (See all issues here), !Factorial Press, San Diego, CA, 2003.

2002
Panelist in (Re)Structured Screen,online critical forum presented by Eyebeam/New York and The Integrated Media Program at CalArts, California, Nov. 11 - Dec. 13.

"Veiled Fantasies," Site Street Online Journal, Fall 2002

2001
"Dramatic structure in interactive virtual reality," Aedo-ba, Villa Tosca Design Management Center, Milan, Nr. 03/04, Fall 2001 pp. 40-45.

"Beyond Manzanar: Constructing Meaning in Interactive Virtual Reality," COSIGN 2001 Conference Proceedings, Amsterdam, Holland.

Thiel, Tamiko and Houshmand, Zara. "Beyond Manzanar," on front Page of NW Nikkei / North American Post, Vol. 18 No.17, April 21, 2001, pp.1,5.

Thiel, Tamiko and Houshmand, Zara. "Beyond Manzanar," SIGGRAPH 2001 Electronic Art and Animation Catalog and CD-ROM, ACM SIGGRAPH, New York, page 125.

2000
Images from the series Metamorphoses featured on front and back covers of Leonardo Journal, MIT Press, Volume 33 #2, 2000, and on Leonardo's .

1995
Thiel, Tamiko. "Machine Sapiens," Ylem Newsletter, Vol. 15, No. 6, Nov./Dec. 1995. pp. 5-6.

1994
Thiel, Tamiko. "The Design of the Connection Machine," (Japanese text) InterCommunication Magazine, InterCommunication Center of the NTT, Tokyo, Japan, No. 8, Spring 1994. pp.128-135.

Thiel, Tamiko. "The Design of the Connection Machine," (pdf or html) DesignIssues, The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, Vol. 10, No. 1, Spring 1994. pp. 5-18.

1993
Thiel, Tamiko. "Vijfenzestigduizend Processoren in Twaalf Dimensies," (in Dutch) Computable, Netherlands, 26E Jaargang, Week 22, 4 June 1993, pp. 25, 27.

Thiel, Tamiko. "Machina Cogitans," (text in English and German) Genetic Art - Artificial Life, ARS ELECTRONICA , Linz, Austria. pp. 186-194

LECTURES and PANELS

2024
KEYNOTE: "XR extended reality artworks on social and cultural themes," ISEA2024 Media Art Festival, Brisbane Convention & Exhibition Centre, Meanjin/Brisbane, Australia. 25 June.

KING'S COLLEGE LONDON, "Women’s hidden role in tech: illuminating innovation", recording of panel discussion, 07 March.

SIGGRAPH 2024, Denver/CO, USA. "2024 ACM SIGGRAPH Award Talks" and panel discussion "Retrospective: Arts and Technology," 30 July.

2023
AWE Europe, Vienna, Austria. Recording: "Tamiko Thiel: Socially Critical VR and AR Artworks, 1994 - 2023", 24 October.

"Portraits of Practice: Trailblazing Realities: Female Pioneers in the History of Virtual Reality" panel, moderated by Paula Strunden. Architectural Association School of Architecture, London, 12 December.

2022
KUNSTMUSEUM WOLFSBURG: FEM ART DAY – Empowerment³, Katharina Koch & Uta Ruhkamp/Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Justin Hoffmann/Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg und Marcus Körber/Städtischen Galerie Wolfsburg im Gespräch mit Candice Breitz, Anna Ehrenstein und Tamiko Thiel. 08 Oct.

"Expanding the Moving Image. Deep Fake and Virtual Reality in Artistic Practices" See the full lecture with following discussion on AI and VR art practices with artists Karolina Markiewicz and Pascal Piron, as part of their exhibit Stronger than memory and weaker than dewdrops at Casino Luxembourg, 13 Feb.

2021
"Augmented Reality Art in Public Space" Concordia University Research Chair in Performative Urbanism, the Department of Communications, and the Fonds de Recherche Société et Culture du Québec, Montreal, Canada, 10 March.

"Reflections of a 1/2 Japanese 1/2 Brooklynite Expat MIT Geek Grrrl," as part of the panel "Dismantling the Patriarchy, Bit by Bit: Feminism, Art, and Technology" chaired by Judith K. Brodsky, College Art Association (CAA) Annual Conference, 12 Feb.

"Conservation of Artworks which Depend on Technology," panel discussion for "FILEALIVE / ARQUIVOVIVO, FILE – Electronic Language International Festival, São Paulo, Brazil, 30 March.

"Lend Me Your Face – Go Fake Yourself! - Tamiko Thiel in discussion with Jon Uriarte," Agora Digital Art, 17 Feb.

2019
"Taste of History," keynote by Tamiko Thiel and Japanese calligraphy demonstration by Midori Kono Thiel. Fundraising event for the Euphrat Museum and the California History Center, October 26

"Creative Minds: Tamiko Thiel and Zara Houshmand with Susan Hayase", Artist talk, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA., October 19.

"Beyond Realities," lecture as part of the event "50 years of Art and Technology Studies at the School of the Art Institute" (SAIC), Chicago, April 30.

Art Innovation Symposium, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan. Held jointly with Goldsmiths University of London art college, March 16.

"Histories of the Digital Now" panel discussion, New School, New York. Moderated by Christiane Paul in conjunction with the Whitney Museum exhibit "Programmed: Rules, Codes, and Choreographies in Art, 1965–2018," February 13.

Public lecture and demo, Stamps School of Art and Design, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor MI, February 7.

2018
iX Symposium: The Conquest of Reality, Society of Art and Technology (SAT), Montreal, Canada. Opening talk.

"Emergent Visions: Adjacency and Urban Screens" Symposium, School of Art, Media and Design, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Keynote speaker.

"Augmented Reality Public Art Initiative". Symposium keynote address, Hong Kong Heritage Discovery Centre in Kowloon Park, and 2 hour public lecture at the Hang Seng Management College, Hong Kong.

2017
"Thinking Machines: An Evening with Beryl Korot, Zabet Patterson, and Tamiko Thiel." Panel discussion (online recording here) Introduction by Sean Anderson and moderation by Giampaolo Bianconi. Museum of Modern Art, New York, November 14, 2017.

FACETS Un-Conference on Art and Artificial Intelligence, Goethe-Institut New York.

2016
"Assemblage and Décollage in Virtual Public Space," (with Will Pappenheimer), College Art Association Conference New Media Caucus panel "Augmented Reality Invention/Reinvention," Washington D.C.

"Virtual- & Augmented-Reality Kunstwerke 1994-2016," Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich, Germany.

2014
"Experiencing the Invisible - Augmented Reality Art," Environmental Visions Symposium, Nanyang Technological University School of Art, Design and Media, Singapore.

" Portable Realities" Symposium, House for Electronic Arts & Museum Tinguely, Basel, Switzerland

2013
Manifest:AR Symposium, Corcoran Gallery of Art and College of Art and Design, Washington DC.

2012
"The dramatic and poetic capabilities of virtual and augmented reality," University of Bedfordshire, Research Institute for Media, Arts and Performance, Luton, U.K.

2011
"Virtual and Augmented Reality Artworks," Eyebeam Art + Technology Center, New York, USA.

2010
"Rhetorics of the Interactive 3D Installation 'Virtuelle Mauer/ReConstructing the Wall,'" ICIDS 2010 Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK.

Lecture/demo at the Srishti School of Art, Design and Technology, Bangalore, India.

Lecture/demo at the Rabindra Bharati School of Art, Kolkata (Calcutta), India.

T+T (Tamiko Thiel, Teresa Reuter and Sabe Wunsch) artists' talk (streaming video recording) at Newthinking, Berlin, Germany.

2009
Lecture/demo (with Teresa Reuter) as part of "Erinnerungsorte: Denkmal und Gedenken" ("Places of Remembrance: Memorials and Remembrance", at the Chair for Historic Preservation and Design, Technical University Dresden, Germany, 23 June 2009.

"I viaggi di Mariko Horo," artist's talk at the Fondazione Querini Stampalia, as part of the transnational literary festival Incroci di Civilta', Venice, Italy, May 20.

Artist's talk on "Virtuelle Mauer/ReConstructing the Wall," at the Goethe-Institut Boston as part of the Boston Cyberarts Festival, Boston, USA.

Artist's talk on "Virtuelle Mauer/ReConstructing the Wall" for the Upgrade! Munich, held at the Chair for Urbanism, Technical University Munich, Munich, Germany, January 22.

2008
"Background and History of the Berlin Wall," speech for the US premiere of Virtuelle Mauer/ReConstructing the Wall, November 7.

"Tour Through 'Virtuelle Mauer'," artist's talk, November 18. Both at 911 Media Arts Center, Seattle, USA.

"Introduction to the 'Virtuelle Mauer'," speech (together with Teresa Reuter) for the world premiere of Virtuelle Mauer/ReConstructing the Wall, at the Museum for Communication, Berlin, Germany, August 13, 2008.

2007
" Mariko Horo: The Art of Tamiko Thiel," artist's talk, Seattle Art Museum. Seattle, USA. Held in conjunction with the exhibit " Japan Envisions the West: 16th-19th Century Japanese Art from Kobe City Museum" at the Seattle Art Museum and the solo show of The Travels of Mariko Horo at 911 Media Arts Center, Seattle, USA.

"Virtual Reality Projects," artist's talk, KHOJ International Artists’ Association, New Delhi, India.

2006
" Creating the Unknown World: Limits and freedom of the imagination," ISEA2006/ZeroOne San Jose Festival, San Jose, USA.

Participant in the Pacific Rim New Media Summit organized by the CADRE Laboratory for New Media at San Jose State University and and Leonardo/ISAST, ISEA2006/ZeroOne San Jose Festival, San Jose, USA.

2005
"Virtual Memorials? Interactive Media and the Structures of Commemoration," roundtable discussion as part of the BOSTON CYBERARTS FESTIVAL / GOETHE-INSTITUT, Boston, MA.

"The Travels of Mariko Horo," Center for Advanced Visual Studies (CAVS), MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, Cambridge, MA, USA.

"Lehrkonzept für Bildnerisches Gestalten in der Architektur," Fach Architektur, TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT, Munich, Germany.

2004
"Re-Constructing the Berlin Wall: The virtual experience of an urban fact and symbol," Center for European Studies (CES), HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Cambridge, MA, USA.

"Caught in the Loop: Media Hysteria in Times of Crisis," Center for Advanced Visual Studies (CAVS), MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, Cambridge, MA, USA.

"A General Theory of Dramatic Structure for Interactive 3D Environments," Guest lecture in the class "Interactive Cinema," Glorianna Davenport, Media Lab, MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, Cambridge, MA, USA.

"Virtual Reality as Interactive Cultural Experience," Guest lecture in the class "Visualizing Cultures," Profs. John Dower and Shigeru Miyagawa, School of Humanities, MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, Cambridge, MA, USA.

"Virtual Reality as Interactive Cultural Experience," Guest lecture in the class "Humanities Go Digital," Kurt Fendt, School of Humanities. MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, Cambridge, MA, USA.

" Form for an Electronic Brain: the Connection Machines CM-1/CM-2," Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL), MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, Cambridge, MA, USA.

2003
"Slowness in Cultural Pluralism," panel discussion, Kyoto Biennale, KYOTO ART CENTER, Kyoto, Japan.

"Games, Worlds and New Narratives," Panel Discussion, Lab3D, CORNERHOUSE, Manchester, England.

"Evocative Structure and Social Content in Virtual Reality," University of Salford, Manchester, England.

"Evocative Structure and Social Content in Virtual Reality," Center for Advanced Visual Studies (CAVS), Massachusetts Institute of Technologie (MIT), Cambridge, MA, USA.

"Arbeiten mit Kunst und Technologie," Akademie der Bildende Künste, Munich, Germany

"NextArt: Provocations" Panel Discussion, FLORIDA FILM FESTIVAL, Maitland, Florida, USA.

"Lehrkonzept für Szenografie mit Neuen Medien," Hochschule für Film und Fernsehen, Babelsberg, Germany.

2002
"Creating Dramatic Structure in Interactive 3D Virtual Reality," Interactive Media Division, School of Cinema-Television, University of Southern California (USC) Los Angeles, CA, USA.

"Creating Beyond Manzanar," (with Zara Houshmand.) Event to celebrate the opening of Beyond Manzanar in the "Highlights of the Permanent Collection" show at the San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA. Event co-hosted by ZeroOne: The Art and Technology Network.

"Arbeiten mit Kunst und Technologie," Bauhaus-University, Weimar, Germany

"Creating Dramatic Structure in Virtual Reality," New York University, New York, NY, USA.

"World-building in VRML," Univ. of CA at Irvine, Irvine, CA, USA.

"Deep Content in PC-based Virtual Reality," Video of interview at Univ. of CA at Los Angeles (UCLA) Department of Media Arts, CA, USA.

"Deep Content in PC-based Virtual Reality," Pomona College, Pomona, CA, USA.

"Crossing cultures in Virtual Reality," curators talk at the Japanese American National Museum (JANM), Los Angeles, CA, USA.

"Beyond Manzanar," Center for Research on Computers in the Arts (CRCA), Univ. of CA at San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA.

2001
"Dramaturgie fuer Interaktive VR", (in German) Hochschule für Film und Fernsehen, Potsdam-Babelsberg, Germany.

Panel discussion on the Japanese-American Internment, together with Dr. Frank Kitamoto of the Bainbridge Island Nikkeikai, Cherry Blossom Festival, Seattle, WA, USA.

"Entstehungsgeschichte: Beyond Manzanar", (in German) Fachhochschule Augsburg, Augsburg, Germany.

"Beyond Manzanar und die Leitkulturdiscussion," artist's talk (in German) at the Lothringerstrasse 13 / LADEN Gallery, Munich, Germany

2000
"New Media de Kanjo wo Furitsukeru", (in Japanese) Sapporo School of the Arts, Sapporo, Japan.

1999
"Beyond Manzanar - Work in progress" (in Japanese), International Academy of the Media Arts and Sciences (IAMAS), Ogaki City, Japan.

"Fantasies and Other Realities", Media Art Festival, Lucerne, Switzerland.

"Virtual Worlds", Art Center College of Design, Pasadena CA.

1998
"Virtually Paradise: Virtual Spaces as Refuge," Out of the Box Summit on Interactivity, BANFF CENTRE for the ARTS, Banff, Canada.

"Digital Butoh", Digital Art Pavilion, PALO ALTO FESTIVAL of the ARTS, Palo Alto, CA, USA.

1997
"Personal Fantasies and Public Realities" CHIK TEK 97: Women Artists Defining Technology, held by the CADRE Institute at the San Jose Art Museum, San Jose, CA. See "Chik Tek Symposium Revisited: Interviews with Women Artists Using Technology," by Helen Wood,

"Virtual Environments and Healing" AVATARS 97, San Francisco, CA, USA.

"Virtuelle Koerper; Virtuelle Welten" (in German), TECHNO-Z FACHHOCHSCHULE, Salzburg, Austria.

"Virtuelle Koerper; Virtuelle Welten" (in German), DOLL.MONSTER.DEATH.: Cultural Transformation Processes of Bio- and Information Technologies," Natural History Museum, Vienna, Austria.

1994
"Calculating Clock to Connection Machine: The Changing Image of Computers," Museum of American History, SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, Washington DC, USA.

"Machine as Mirror, Machine as Model," IDEO, San Francisco, CA, USA.

1993
"Symposium on Media Arts Criticism," MEDIENLABOR MUENCHEN, Munich, Germany.

"Roboter, Animaten und kuenstliche Lebewesen," Genetic Art - Artificial Life, ARS ELECTRONICA 93, Linz, Austria.

BIOGRAPHY

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Tamiko Thiel has received multiple honors for her life’s work exploring the interplay of place, space, the body and cultural identity in works encompassing a supercomputer, objects, installations, digital prints in 2D and 3D, videos, interactive 3d virtual worlds (VR), augmented reality (AR) and artificial intelligence (AI). In 2018 she received the SAT Montreal iX Visionary Pioneer Award, and in 2022 was honored with a retrospective at the Kunstverein Wolfsburg in Germany. In 2024 CAI (Contemporary Art Issue) Magazine ranked her in the top 10 most famous digital artists in the world; she was part of the inaugural cohort inducted into the new AWE XR Hall of Fame; and SIGGRAPH, the world’s premiere organization for research and development of computer graphics in industry, academia and the arts, honored her with the Distinguished Artist Lifetime Achievement Award for Digital Art.

Education:
She received her B.S. in 1979 from Stanford University in Product Design Engineering with a focus on human factors design, and worked as a product design engineer at Hewlett-Packard in Silicon Valley. She then went to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she studied human-machine design at the Biomechanics Lab and computer graphics at the precursors to the Media Lab. After receiving her M.S. in Mechanical Engineering in 1983 she worked at Danny Hillis' MIT AI Lab start-up Thinking Machines Corporation as lead product designer on the Connection Machines CM-1/CM-2 supercomputer. Once the design phase was finished she moved to Germany to study studio art at the Munich Academy of Fine Arts, where she received a Diploma in Applied Graphics in 1991, specializing in video installation art. Since then she has worked as an artist in a variety of media.

Artwork, Exhibitions:
Thiel considers her first artwork to be Danny Hillis' massively parallel supercomputers Connection Machines CM-1 (1986) and CM-2 (1987), for which she was lead product designer. Danny's radical new artificial intelligence computer architecture was inspired by the human brain, linking 65,536 tiny 1-bit processors in a 12-dimensional hypercube network. Thiel and her team created the machine as a massive, 5' square matt black 8-fold cube of cubes, whose 4,096 processor chip status lights were visible through the transparent doors, blinking to mark the activitiy of this "electronic brain." Google purchased Hillis' follow-on AI company MetaWeb in 2010, and his software concepts and parallel programming paradigm lives on in Google's AI technology. The Connection Machine also provoked a lasting change in Apple founder Steve Jobs' own sense of the power of visual design, and in 2016 the Museum of Modern Art acquired one of the few remaining CM-2 machines for its permanent collection. It was on view at MoMA in the exhibit "Thinking Machines: Art and Design in the Computer Age, 1959–1989" in 2017-2018, and in the exhibit "Energy" for the re-opening of MoMA in 2019-2020. It was also exhibited in Seattle in the 2018 exhibit "Worlds Beyond Here: The Expanding Universe of Asian Pacific American Science Fiction" at the Wing Luke Museum (courtesy of the Living Computers Museum).

At the Munich Academy of Fine Arts she began with drawing and painting, then found her artistic voice with 3D found object installations such as "Beauty and the Beast: The Conjugal Bed." Intrigued by problems of dramatic structure in time-based art, she finished her studies with a video installation "The Golden Seed" (aka "The Golden I"), the first of a series of works investigating the emotive power of the human body and known collectively as the Totem Project.

Her first work in interactive 3D virtual reality was as creative director and producer of Starbright World(1996), an award-winning multi-user 3D online virtual playspace for seriously ill children done in collaboration with film director and Starbright Foundation chairman Steven Spielberg. Her interactive 3D installation Beyond Manzanar (2000, with Zara Houshmand), reflecting on scapegoating of minorities in times of crisis, is in the permanent collection of the San Jose Museum of Art in Silicon Valley, California, USA. This work is discussed in Whitney Museum media art curator Christiane Paul's reference book Digital Art (Thames and Hudson World of Art series), and Boston University Professor Matthew Smith's book The Total Work of Art: From Bayreuth to Cyberspace. Matthew Smith also published a monograph on Thiel's work, "Liquid Walls: The Digital Art of Tamiko Thiel," in the Performing Arts Journal (PAJ).

Her interactive 3D installation The Travels of Mariko Horo (2006) draws on Dante, Byzantine and Buddhist imagery to create a reverse Marco Polo fantasy of the exotic West seen from a Buddhist viewpoint. It premiered in 2006 at the first 01SJ Biennial in San Jose, Silicon Valley, USA (curator Steve Dietz), and has since been shown in venues such as Siggraph, the Palazzo Medici-Riccardi in Florence, Italy and the Fondazione Querini Stampalia in Venice, Italy. This work is discussed by Marcela Quiroz Luna, Curatorial Director of Art San Diego, in the article "Orientalism, Occidentalism and other myths of origin," Fahrenheit Contemporary Art Magazine. In 2006 she received a prize from the City of Munich, curated by Bettina Wagner-Bergelt (vice director, Bavarian State Ballet) and Dr. Stefan Urbaschek (curator, Sammlung Goetz), to commission a dance piece using The Travels of Mariko Horo as a realtime stage set: "In the Land of Babari-an" premiered at the Dance2006 Festival in Munich.

In 2007 she was awarded a major grant from the Hauptstadtkulturfonds (Berlin Capital City Cultural Funds) to create an interactive 3D installation on the Berlin Wall, Virtuelle Mauer/ReConstructing the Wall. This artwork won the IBM Innovation Award for Artistic Creation in Art and Technology at the 2009 Boston Cyberarts Festival. It was shown extensively in 2009 for the 20th anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin Wall in Europe, including the Berlin City Museum in Germany and LABoral Centro de Arte in Spain (curators Steve Dietz and Christiane Paul). It was sent on tour by the Goethe-Institut in the USA and India; the US tour included a special event at the Harvard University Kennedy School of Government, and an opening speech by German Ambassador Dr. Klaus Scharioth (solo show, American University Museum,Washington D.C.).

A founding member of the cyberartist group Manifest.AR, she participated in the pathbreaking augmented reality exhibit "We AR in MoMA," an uninvited guerilla takeover of MoMA New York. Videos of Thiel's "ARt Critic Face Matrix" were featured in articles in the New York Times and on WNYC (National Public Radio). In 2011 she led the Manifest.AR Venice Biennial AR Intervention, placing her work series "Shades of Absence," on censorship in the visual arts, in the Venice Giardini and in the German National Pavilion (which won the Golden Lion Award for best national pavilion). This led to an invitation to participate in the ISEA2011 exhibition UNCONTAINABLE, an official parallel program of the Istanbul Biennial, where she placed her artwork series "Invisible Istanbul: Captured Images" into the main biennial exhibition. Since then she has many commissions for augmented reality projects as a site specific participatory public art form, and creating digital prints of the augments taken on location to show in gallery exhibits.

Awards and Commissions
In 1998 she won a grant from WIRED Magazine to research "Beyond Manzanar" and in 1999 created the artwork during as artist in residence at the IAMAS media art academy in Gifu, Japan. In 2003 she was a Japan Foundation Fellow in residence at the Kyoto Art Center, Japan to research "The Travels of Mariko Horo," and in 2004 produced the artwork as a Research Fellow at the Center for Advanced Visual Studies, M.I.T. In 2006 she received a prize from the City of Munich, curated by Bettina Wagner-Bergelt and Dr. Stephan Urbaschek, to develop and exhibit a work using "The Travels of Mariko Horo" as a realtime stage set for a specially commissioned dance performance. This work, "In the Land of Babari-an," premiered at the Dance 2006 Festival of Contemporary Dance in Munich. In 2007 she was awarded a prize from the Hauptstadtkulturfonds (Berlin Capital City Cultural Fund) to research and create her virtual reality installation Virtuelle Mauer/ReConstructing the Wall; in 2009 this work won the IBM Innovation Award for artistic creation in art and technology. In 2011/2012 she was Goethe-Institut Artist in Residence in Second Life, for which she staged two performative events. In 2017 she was a Google VR Tilt Brush Artist-in-Residence, creating the VR artwork "Land of Cloud" for the HTC Vive VR headset. "Land of Cloud" premiered in 2018 at the VRHAM Virtual Reality Festival in Hamburg, where it won the People's Choice audience award.

In augmented reality, in 2012 the Foundation for Art and Creative Technology (FACT) in Liverpool awarded her cyberartist group Manifest.AR a commission to develop an augmented reality system using bio-sensing, for which she created "Biomer Skelters" (2013, with Will Pappenheim), for the 10th anniversary show "Turning FACT Inside Out." In 2013 she was a fellow at the MacDowell Colony, the USA's premiere artist in residence program. In 2014 she was awarded a commission to create "I am Sound," an interactive installation inspired by synesthesia (with Christoph Reiserer) for the Digital Synesthesia project. Her 2016 commission from the Seattle Art Museum transformed their Olympic Sculpture Park into a field of mutant plants resisting climate change, "Gardens of the Anthropocene". In 2018 she was also awarded the iX Visionary Pioneer Award from the Society of Art and Technology (SAT), Montreal, Canada, and was commissioned by the Whitney Museum of American Art to create the AR installation "Unexpected Growth" (with /p), which premiered in the exhibit "Programmed: Rules, Codes, and Choreographies in Art, 1965–2018" curated by Christiane Paul. (The 1st edition is in the Whitney collection and the 2nd edition was auctioned as a NFT at Christie's NY in 2021.) The Smithsonian Institution commissioned ReWildAR (2021, with /p) for its 175th anniversary exhibit FUTURES, and the Roche Art Collection Basel commissioned ARpothecary’s Garden in 2022, curated by Sabine Himmelsbach. In 2023 the AR Biennial of the NRW-Forum Düsseldorf commissioned What You Sow (with /p), and the BROICH Digital Art Museum commissioned Vera Plastica (with /p) via DAM Projects Berlin.

AR ARtistic Advisor:
As augmented reality technical and artistic advisor, she helped the Caribbean Cultural Center - African Diaspora Institute in East Harlem, New York City, win a Rockefeller Foundation Cultural Innovation Fund award for the "Mi Querido Barrio" augmented reality art, culture and history tour in 2012. Similarly, in 2019 she helped the Hidden Histories San Jose Japantown AR project (in collaboration with the Japanese American Museum of San Jose (JAMsj) win a Knight Foundation Immersive Technology in the Arts award.

Teaching & Lecturing:
She has taught and lectured internationally at institutions such as Carnegie Mellon University, the MIT Media Lab, Harvard Center for European Studies, the Bauhaus-University in Weimar, Germany, University of California/San Diego, the University of Southern California School of Cinema-Television and the School of Film and Television in Babelsberg, Germany. In winter semester 2011 she was Visiting Professor for Technologies of Non-linear Dramaturgies at the Berlin University of the Arts, Institute of Time-Based Media. In winter semester 2014 and winter semester 2015 she was Visiting Associate Professor for Interactive Media at the Nanyang Technological University School of Art, Design and Media (ADM). In summer semester 2018 she was a visiting professor in the department of Interface Cultures at the University of Art and Design in Linz, Austria.