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  • “Shades of Absence: Governing Bodies" Addresses artists who have been censored by - or due to threats by - high members of the U.S. government. Premiered in 2013 at "Manifest:AR," curator Joseph Hale, Corcoran Gallery of Art/Corcoran School of Art
  • As global water levels and temperatures rise, plants and animals are mutating to adapt. Strange new creatures are arising at the interstices between plant and animal, questioning and transgressing the boundaries of what is considered to be reactive
  • Goldsegen
    Participatory Augmented Reality Public Art Project. "Goldsegen (Golden Blessings)" - How much do you need to be happy? This project engages and questions the mechanisms of consumption and their promises of happiness. The artist posed the question
  • The digital collages (3 shown here by Tamiko Thiel, and 3 others by Teresa Reuter/Sabe Wunsch) show scenographies of the Berlin Wall that are conceived as associative spaces of memories - by mixing temporal and geographical elements as well as
  • Starbright World -
    Starbright World was a pioneering online multi-user 3-D virtual world in which seriously ill children in hospitals across the United States could meet via a network to play with each other as avatars, build a part of the world themselves, discuss
  • A performance for cello, grand piano, soprano saxophone, surveillance cameras, live video mixing and projection. Two instruments accompany a silent movie. Hey, it's a living. But slowly they realize that not only are they reacting to the image.
  • To create this 5-channel video sculpture the artist searched for abstract forms and movements of the human body that trigger powerful associations with the processes of life and death, transforming images of "innocent" body parts into fetishistic
  • The Golden Seed is a single-channel video, a moving votive image that celebrates the cycles of fertility: birth, death, regeneration. In its installation form: A dark passage leads into the underworld. In a low cave, light streams from a votive
  • Digital prints. Magical metamorphoses of the past are the genetic experiments of today ... as technology gives us powers earlier reserved for the gods. Through the eye of the camera I seek this transformation from the human to the numinous, from the
  • Tamiko Thiel is a media artist interested in the interplay of place, space, the body and cultural memory. She has done pioneering work in developing the dramatic and poetic capabilities of various forms of virtual and augmented reality as media for