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  • 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
  • Multi-media found object and audio installation. The handsome young god Amor comes only at night under the cover of darkness to lie with his mortal wife, Psyche. To protect her from the wrath of his jealous mother Venus he has Psyche and her family
  • 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
  • Thiel, Tamiko. Machina Cogitans In Genetic art - artificial life, edited by Karl Gerbel, 186-194. Wien: PVS-Verlag, 1993.
  • Thiel, Tamiko. The Design of the Connection Machine Design Issues 10, no. 1 (Spring 1994): 5-18.
  • Thiel, Tamiko. Machine Sapiens Ylem Newsletter 15, no. 6 (November/December 1995): 5-6.
  • Thiel, Tamiko. Beyond Manzanar: Creating Dramatic Structure in Ergodic Narratives In Conference Proceedings for Technologies for Interactive Digital Storytelling and Entertainment (TIDSE 2004), edited by Stefan Göbel, 246-251. Berlin/Heidelberg:
  • Thiel, Tamiko. Life at the Interface of Art and Technology On Screen 18, no. 1 (Winter 2007): 32-34.