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

Click here for full website at "tamikothiel.com".

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"What You Sow" (with /p, 2023), interactive AR


What You Sow

Click on plastic garbage to transform it into a plastic waste coral reef! (Used to create my videos for the collaborative work "Wilderness," by United Media Artists (UMA), in the ECC exhibit in Palazzo Mora.) AR originally created for the 2023 AR Biennale, Düsseldorf, Germany.

"Slava Ukraina!" (2022, with /p)


Ukrainian Flag

An AR intervention at the Russian Pavilion, in protest of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

"Shades of Absence" (2011)

"Shades of Absence" is a series of AR artworks I originally created for the Manifest.AR artist group intervention into the 2011 Venice Biennial. The artworks show erased silhouettes of censored artists, standing in pavilions formed out of words of censorship.

See this webpage for descriptions of the artists pictured in this series.

Shades of Absence: Public Voids (2011)


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Artists whose works were censored in public space, including at the Venice Biennale.



Shades of Absence: Outside Inside (2011)


ShadesOfAbsence-OutsideInside

Artists threatened with physical violence or imprisonment for their artworks.



Shades of Absence: Schlingensief Gilded (2011)


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The controversial theater director christoph Schlingensief was often threatened with censorship. He died shortly before the German National Pavilion at the 2011 Venice Biennial opened with a solo exhibit in his honor.