Tamiko Thiel
Tamiko Thiel
Virtual Reality Artist
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Bio
Tamiko Thiel is developing the dramatic and narrative capabilities of interactive 3D virtual reality as a medium for addressing social, cultural and political issues.
Her online virtual playspace for seriously ill children, Starbright World, was designed together with Steven Spielberg and won numerous awards including the Global Information Infrastructure Next Generation Award. Her virtual reality installation Beyond Manzanar, on internment of minorities in times of crisis, is in the permanent collection of the San Jose Museum of Art in Silicon Valley, California. The work is discussed in Whitney Museum media art curator Christiane Paul's reference work "Digital Art" in the Thames and Hudson "World of Art" series, and in Boston University professor Matthew Smith's book "The Total Work of Art: From Bayreuth to Cyberspace."
Her reverse Marco Polo fantasy "The Travels of Mariko Horo" was supported in 2003 by a Japan Foundation Fellowship and a residency at the Kyoto Art Center, and in 2004 by a Research Fellowship at the Center for Advanced Visual Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA. It premiered in 2006 at the ZeroOne San Jose/ISEA2006 media art festival and was shown in the Siggraph Art Gallery in 2007. In 2006 Thiel was awarded the Junge Kunst/Neue Medien prize of the City of Munich to produce a specially commissioned dance performance using The Travels of Mariko Horo as a realtime interactive stage set. This work premiered at the Dance2006 Festival of Contemporary Dance under the name "In the Land of Babari-an". In 2006 she was also awarded a grant from the Hauptstadtkulturfonds of the German government to create a new VR work on the Berlin Wall, "Virtuelle Mauer / ReConstructing the Wall." This work will premiere in 2008 at the Museum for Communication in Berlin.
Symposium
Interactive Virtual Worlds