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Tamiko Thiel (born June 15, 1957) is a contemporary artist who specializes in "exploring the interplay of place, space, the body and cultural identity"

Early life and education
Tamiko Thiel attended Stanford University and graduated with a B.S. in Product Design Engineering with an emphasis on human factors design in 1979. She later went on to receive her M.S. in Mechanical Engineering in 1983 from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. There, she studied human-machine design at the school's Biomechanics Lab and computer graphics at the precursors to the Media Lab. In 1991, Thiel received her Diploma in Applied Graphics, specializing in video installation art, from the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich, Germany.

Career
Thiel's debut interactive piece was a 3D virtual reality experience called [Starbright World] in 1996. This project was done in collaboration with the Starbright Foundation's chairman and film director, Steven Spielberg. Together, they produced an award-winning multi-user 3D online virtual playspace for seriously ill children. Since then, Thiel has had many other exhibits, some of the most notable being her shows "Beyond Manzanar" (a piece about a WWII-era Japanese-American internment camp in California), "The Travels of Mariko Horo", and "Shades of Absence". She is also one of the founding member of Manifest.AR, a group of artists focused on augmented reality, with which she staged a spontaneous intervention at MoMA NY in 2010 called "We AR in MoMA". Her notable works include:
 * 2013:
 * Corcoran Gallery of Art, "Manifest.AR" invitational show
 * 2012:
 * Tate Modern, "All Hail Damien Hirst!" AR Intervention
 * Zero1 Biennial and Samek Art Gallery (Bucknell University), "Manifest.AR @ Zero1 Binnial 2012"
 * 2011:
 * Venice Biennial and the German National Pavillion, "Venice Bienniale 2011 AR Intervention"
 * 2010:
 * Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), "We AR in MoMA"

Awards and grants

 * Rockefeller Foundation Cultural Innovation Fund Award - 2012


 * IBM Innovation Award for artistic creation in art and technology - 2009


 * World Technology Award in the category Art (nominated) - 2009


 * Hauptstadtkulturfonds (Berlin Capital City Cultural Fund) Award - 2007


 * City of Munich Prize for Junge Kunst/Neue Mediem (Young Art/New Media) - 2006


 * Wired Magazine and the Asian American Arts Foundation: Grant Award - 1998


 * Bay Area Video Coalition (BAVC): Artist Equipment Access Award - 1996


 * Global Information Infrastructure Awards: Winner of Next Generation Award - 1996


 * Asahi Shimbun: Digital Entertainment Award - 1996


 * Cyberedge: Virtual Reality product of the Year Award - 1995

Publications

 * "Multigraphical membrane systems revisited," Lecture Notes in Computer Science Vol. 7762, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, pp. 311-322, 2013


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


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


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


 * Thiel, Tamiko. "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.


 * Thiel, Tamiko. "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.


 * "Beyond Manzanar" (with Zara Houshmand), [Two] Factorial, !Factorial Press, San Diego, CA, 2003


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


 * "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.


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


 * 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," DesignIssues, The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, Vol. 10, No. 1, Spring 1994. pp. 5-18.


 * 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


 * "The Connection Machine," AXIS Design Magazine, Number 45, Tokyo, Japan, 1992

Further Readings

 * Beyond Manzanar: Constructing Meaning in Interactive Virtual Reality