Tamiko Thiel


Artworks exploring the intersection of space, place and cultural memory.




NEW LOCATION - Tour and Talks:

Until end October 2025 - Belval/Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg


"Waldwandel/Forest Flux" (2023, with /p) is being shown as a mixed reality installation: visitors scan four 3 meter x 2 meter billboard images, arranged in Place des Hauts Fourneaux/Belval,to trigger a forest of trees in the space between. In "Hybrid Futures: Rhizomes, Meshworks and Alter-Ecologies" from Elektron Luxembourg

Save the dates: 17:30 on 08 Oct. 2025 I will give a guided tour and talk - join us at at Place des Hauts Fourneaux, Belval. I will give a talk later that evening as part of the "Women Leaders" conference at the U Luxembourg, and the next day 09 Oct. another talk at the Society for the History of Technology (SHOT) conference. See links for details! :-)


Waldwandel/Forest Flux AR installation in Place des Hauts Fourneaux, Belval/Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg. Belval is a former steel works in Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg, now converted to a stunning industrial monument site for the University of Luxembourg.


ONGOING:

Streaming Online @ CIFRA:


Our Time Is Also the Future: New Corporeality, curated by Anika Meier (The Second-Guess)

Featuring: Totem of Heavenly Wisdom
5-channel video sculpture, Tamiko Thiel, 1996 (shown as a 1-channel simulation)


Single channel simulation of the 5-channel video sculpture.


With artworks from:
Sougwen Chung * allapopp * Kika Nicolela * Carla Streckwall * Hermine Bourdin * Jess Tucker *Nancy Burson * Tabitha Swanson * OONA * Leah Schrager * Malpractice * Flynn *Franziska Ostermann * Margaret Murphy * CROSSLUCID * Boris Eldagsen * Claudia Hart * Tamiko Thiel * SOFF

Until October 2025: Burg Ranfels/Lower Bavaria


"BESTIA ET ANIMA", curated by Dr. Stefanie Baumann and Alexander Timtschenko

Plastocene Reef
1.5m wide x 2.7m tall augmented wall treatment, courtesy Yvonne Hohner Contemporary Karlsruhe.


Plastocene Reef, installation view at Burg Ranfels Schoolhouse door, 2025


Plastocene Dreams
DIN A2 augmented fine art prints, courtesy Yvonne Hohner Contemporary Karlsruhe.


Plastocene Dreams, installation view at Burg Ranfels, 2025


EXTENDED to 18 Jan. 2026 @ Chiostro del Bramante, Rome


"FLOWERS. Art from the Renaissance to Artificial Intelligence"

Featuring: Forest Flux/Waldwandel, Augmented Reality wall-sized livestream.

The exhibition "Flowers Forever," curated by Franziska Stöhr and Roger Diederen for the Kunsthalle Munich, now travels to Rome in collaboration with the curator Suzanne Landau. It features Waldwandel/Forest Flux as a large, wall-sized AR livestream projection!


Forest Flux/Waldwandel AR livestream large projection installation. Installation view at the Chiostro del Bramante, Rome, Italy, 2025.


RECENT AWARDS:

SIGGRAPH 2024, 28 July – 1 August in Denver, USA

I will receive the Distinguished Artist Award for Lifetime Achievement in Digital Art! I am still wobbly-kneed at being named to this illustrious group, with so many true s/heros of mine! SIGGRAPH was so important for the beginning of my career as a media artist, in the early days when few art venues would dare to show VR artworks.

AWE XR Hall of Fame

I am honored to be part of the first cohort inducted into the newly formed XR Hall of Fame, including many of my s/heros and friends! Unfortunately I can't attend the AWE conferences this year due to prior committments elsewhere, I would have so loved to celebrate this together with you all! :-(

CAI Magazine's Top 20 Most Famous Digital Artists

According to the ranking algorithm on artfacts.net, I am #10 on this list! Read their description of how they came up with the rankings. Grateful that I lived to see the words "famous" and "digital" and "artists" in the same sentence in art magazines! :-)