Contact:
public@arpoise.com
Peter Graf
&
Tamiko Thiel
Peter Graf
is a software developer with over 25 years of experience and a pioneer in web server design.
In 1995 he helped bring the New York Times online for the first time.
From 1995-2002 he was co-founder
and Director of Engineering for blaxxun Interactive,
at that time the leading company in 3d multi-user online virtual world technology.
He will consult on and guide further development as main technical advisor.
Tamiko Thiel
is an internationally recognized augmented reality artist and co-founder of the legendary augmented reality artist group
Manifest.AR.
She participated in Manifest.AR's highly regarded guerrilla AR intervention into the Museum of Modern Art New York
in 2010, and led their guerrilla intervention into the Venice Biennale in 2011
(See excerpt from Whitney Museum New Media Curator Christiane Paul's reference book
Digital Art).
Her official participations and commissions include venues such the Istanbul Biennale (official parallel project),
the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston, FACT Liverpool,
Ars Electronica, the Zero1 Biennial in Silicon Valley, the Seattle Art Museum and the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York.
She has taught AR as an art form at the Berlin University of the Arts (Germany), Duke University (USA), Nanyang Technological University (Singapore) and the University of Art and Design Linz (Austria).
As the head of packaging design for Thinking Machines Corporation in the mid-1980s
she is on the
Honor Roll of the IT History Society
for the visual form of the Connection Machine CM-1/CM-2
and a co-holder of TMC's patent for a "Method for Interconnecting Processors in Hyper-Dimensional Array"
for the Connection Machine CM-1 parallel supercomputer. One of the few surviving CM-2s is in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
She will accompany the development process as advisor in the areas of functionality and user interface.
ARpoise - Augmented Reality point of interest service environment - Team