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| Tamiko
Thiel: Curriculum Vitae
Education
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| 1991 | EDUCATION | |
| ACADEMY
of FINE ARTS, Munich, Germany. Fine Arts Diploma. Concentration in found object and video art installations. |
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| Fall '87 - Spring '88 | Project
seminar under the object artist Daniel Spoerri. |
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| Summer 1985: | Guest student of the painter Joerg Immendorff. | |
| 1983 | MASSACHUSETTS
INSTITUTE of TECHNOLOGY, Cambridge, MA, USA. M.S. in Mechanical Engineering. |
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| Studies
in computer graphics and visual imaging at ArchMac and VLW (Media Lab.) |
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| Studies
in human-machine interface at the Biomechanics Lab; Master's thesis: "Real-Time
Simulation of Ultra-Sonic Mobility Aid for the Blind." |
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| 1979 | STANFORD
UNIVERSITY, Stanford, CA, USA. B.S. in General Engineering/Product Design.Concentration in human-machine interface design. |
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| .AWARDS, RESIDENCIES, SPECIAL EVENTS: | ||
| 2001 | Guest
showing of "Beyond Manzanar" virtual reality installation
at welcoming reception for Dr. Lydia Hartl, the new head of the Munich Cultural Department, Munich, Germany. |
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| 2000 | Photo
essay on "Beyond Manzanar" published in the premier issue of the new Japanese critical theory journal Diatxt, Kyoto Art Center, June 2000, pp.65 - 72. Images from the series Metamorphoses featured on front and back covers of Leonardo Journal, MIT Press, Volume 33 #2, 2000, and on Leonardo's website. Sapporo School of the Arts, Sapporo, Japan. Visiting Artist. |
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| 1999 | International
Academy of Media Arts and Sciences (IAMAS), Ogaki City, Japan. Artist in residence from November 1999 - March 2000 to produce the Beyond Manzanar virtual reality art project. Art Center College of Design, Pasadena CA. Residency in the Department of Communication and New Media Design. |
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| 1998 | WIRED
Magazine and the Asian American Arts Foundation: Grant award for Beyond Manzanar virtual reality art project. |
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| 1997 | "DOLL.MONSTER.DEATH.:
Cultural Transformation Processes of Bio- and Information Technologies," Natural History Museum, Vienna, Austria: The Totem of Heavenly Wisdom video installation was the keynote event at the opening ceremony. |
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| 1996 | BAY
AREA VIDEO COALITION (BAVC), San Francisco, CA: Artist Equipment Access Award for The Totem of Heavenly Wisdom video installation. GLOBAL INFORMATION INFRASTRUCTURE (GII) AWARDS (formerly the NII Awards): Starbright World virtual reality playspace received the following awards for extraordinary achievement on the Internet and information highway. - Winner of Next Generation Award - Finalist in Childrens category - Semi-finalist in Telecollaboration category ASAHI SHIMBUN: Digital Entertainment Award for Starbright World SMITHSONIAN / COMPUTER WORLD: Starbright World virtual reality playspace was a Finalist in the Medicine category. |
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| 1995 | CYBEREDGE:
Virtual Reality Product of the Year Award in the "Applications" category for Starbright World . |
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| 1992 | ZENTRUM
fuer KUNST und MEDIENTECHNOLOGIE (ZKM), Karlsruhe, Germany:
Deutsche Videokunstpreis (German Video Art Prize): "Das Goldene Ei" ("The Golden Seed") video art piece premiered on German TV station SUEDWEST 3 as one of the "50 Best" finalists. Butoh
at Johnny Walker's "Art Waves in Front," Tokyo, Japan:
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| 1985 | THINKING
MACHINES CORPORATION, Cambridge, MA: Co-holder of patent for "Method for Interconnecting Processors in Hyper-Dimensional Array" for the Connection Machine CM-1, parallel supercomputer. There are CM-1 and CM-2 Connection Machines in the collections of the COMPUTER MUSEUM, Boston, MA and the Museum of American History, SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, Washington DC, USA. |
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| SCREENINGS EXHIBITIONS | ||
| 2001 | "Beyond
Manzanar" solo exhibition, LOTHRINGERSTRASSE 13 / LADEN, Munich, Germany. CHERRY BLOSSOM FESTIVAL, Seattle, WA., USA. SIGGRAPH N-Space Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA. COSIGN 2001 Conference, Amsterdam, Holland. Interaction `01, Ogaki City, Japan. CYNETart 2001 , Dresden, Germany |
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| 2000 | IAMAS
Artists-in-Residency Exhibition, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography , Tokyo, Japan. |
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| 1999 | VRML99
, Paderborn, Germany. Electronic Media Arts Festival (EMAF), Osnabrueck, Germany. |
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| 1998 | "Plugged
In," HAINES GALLERY, San Francisco, CA, USA. "Asian Body," TIDBIT GALLERY, Portland, OR, USA. "Digital Art Pavilion," PALO ALTO FESTIVAL of the ARTS, Palo Alto, CA, USA. "Artists' Intersection with Technology," YLEM/WCA exhibit at KORET GALLERY, Palo Alto, CA. "The Light is Diverse in California," CENTER for VISUAL ART, Oakland, CA. "Not Still Art Festival," Cooperstown, New York. |
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| 1997 | "Aurinko
- Exhibition of Solar Art," RAUMA MUSEUM of ART, Rauma, Finland. See online
review at Leonardo Journal's website. "CHIK TEK 97: Women Artists Defining Technology," ART-TECH GALLERY, San Jose, CA. "Women and the Art of Multimedia," NATIONAL MUSEUM of WOMEN in the ARTS, Washington DC, USA. "Dancing for the Camera," AMERICAN DANCE FESTIVAL, Durham, NC, USA. "Digital Media: Art and Technology," AEA Award Winners' Presentation, BAY AREA VIDEO COALITION (BAVC), San Francisco, CA, USA. "STIMULUS TRANSMIT," Cable Access Channel 53, San Francisco, CA, USA. My video art work was showcased in the premiere episode of this monthly showcase of independent media artists. |
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| 1996 | "New
Media," Artists' Salon, HEADLANDS CENTER FOR THE ARTS, Marin, CA.
"Brains, Perception and Consciousness," Ylem Forum, EXPLORATORIUM, San Francisco, CA, USA. |
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| 1995 | "Starbright
World: World Launch," Mt. Sinai Hospital, New York, NY, USA. "Starbright World: A Peek in the Lab," DIGITAL WORLD, Los Angeles, CA, USA. |
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| 1993 | "4th
International Sound Basis Visual Arts Festival," WRO 93, Wroclaw, Poland.
"VideoForum," ELDORADO CENTRUM VOOR BEELDCULTUR, Antwerp, Belgium. |
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| 1992 | Butoh
at Johnny Walker's "Art Waves in Front," Tokyo, Japan. Invitational screening
of my video Golden Egg, Butoh performance by Kazuo Ohno, photographs of Butoh by Nourit Masson-Sekine. "Experimental Film and Video Festival," IMAGE FORUM, Tokyo and Osaka, Japan. "Deutsche Videokunstpreis," ZENTRUM fuer KUNST und MEDIENTECHNOLOGIE (ZKM), Karlsruhe, Germany. Video selected as one of "50 Best" for broadcast on German TV station SUEDWEST 3. "Videonale 5," BONNER KUNSTVEREIN, Bonn, Germany. "Videokunst in Muenchen," KUENSTLERWERKSTATT, Munich, Germany. |
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| 1991 | "Diploma Exhibit," AKADEMIE der BILDENDEN KUENSTE, Munich, Germany. | |
| 1988 | "The Beauty and the Beast," PROJEKT DANIEL SPOERRI, Munich, Germany. | |
| 1987 | "Vor dem Hammer," GALERIE KLAUS LEA, Munich, Germany. | |
| REVIEWS | ||
| 2001 | Hauffen, Michael. "Tamiko Thiel und Zara Houshmand: Beyond Manzanar," Springerin, | |
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Vii Heft 2, Juni-September 2001, pp. 75,76. Herbst, Katja. "Medienkünstlerin," SAT1/Bayern Journal, (German TV), 24. März 2001. Vu, Khanh. "The Story behind 'Beyond Manzanar'," NW Nikkei / North American Post, Vol. 18 No.17, April 21, 2001, pp.2,5. "Sakuramatsuri ni kitai: Beyond Manzanar," on front Page of Hokubei Houchi/ North American Post (in Japanese), Vol. 57 No.29, April 18, 2001, pp.2,5. |
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| 2000 | Photo
essay on "Beyond Manzanar" published in the premier issue of the new Japanese
critical theory journal Diatxt, Kyoto Art Center, Vol. 1, June 2000, pp.65 - 72. Richard, Birgit. "Vergehen Konservieren Uploaden. Strategien für die Ewigkeit", Kunstforum, Vol. 151, July – September 2000, Page 50. "Future Computer Image Suggested in the Abacus," AXIS Magazine, March/April 2000, pp. 37-41. |
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| 1998 | Greenman,
Catherine. "Network Helps Children Cope With Serious Illness," New York
Times, May 28, 1998, page D6. Koski, Janne. "Aurinko - Sun: Solar Art" at the Rauma Museum, Finland, Leonardo Journal, MIT Press, Vol.31 #2, 1998, pp. 81-86. The article is also on-line at The Leonardo Electronic Art Gallery. Cohn, Terri. "Chik Tek '97 at Art-Tech," Artweek Magazine, Vol.29 No.2, February 1998, page 17. |
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| 1997 | Richard,
Birgit. ""Digitale Todesbilder: Künstliches Leben, virtueller Tod,"
Zukünfte, 1, 1997. Sekretariat für Zukunftsforschung, Essen, Germany,
pp. 23-26. Sherman, Ann Elliott. "Return to Gender," Metro/ San Jose, December 11-17, 1997, page 42. Levander, Michelle. "Sick Kids Shine in Virtual World," San Jose Mercury News, June 19, 1997, Peninsula section. Wawra, Christine, unpublished essay: "Glut
und Tanz: Sinnlichkeit in den Videos von Tamiko Thiel," (Deutsch)
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| 1996 | Richard,
Birgit. "Schöne neue Welt. Super- Computer, künstliche Ambiente
und Design- Fiktionen für das Leben im Netz," Virtualität contra
Realität. Schriftenreihe der Burg Giebichenstein, Halle, Germany, 1996
McCarthy, Susan. "the good deed," WIRED Magazine, September. Dunn, Ashley. "Meeting, Sharing, Healing While Exploring a Virtual World of Play," New York Times Cyber Times Extra, January 23, 1996 |
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| 1995 | Sperlich,
Tom. "Trost und Waerme on line," Die Zeit Nr. 26, June 23, 1995
Hellmich, Nanci. "A computer playspace to ease suffering," Cover story for USA Today, Wed., Nov. 8. |
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| 1992 | Arimoto, Masatsugu, "Connection Machine: Let the machine speak for itself." AXIS Magazine, Tokyo, Japan. | |
| 1991 | Gudrat,
Petra. "Portraet: Tamiko Thiel, Maschinenbauingenieurin und Video-Kuenstlerin,"
Sueddeutsche Zeitung, Sept. 4. |
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| 1988 | Wie.
"Verspielt, unterhaltsam. Eine Ausstellung der Muenchener Akademieklasse
Daniel Spoerri," Sueddeutsche Zeitung. |
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| ART and TECHNOLOGY POSITIONS | ||
| 1998 - 1999 | BRIGHTLIGHT, San Francisco, CA, USA. Technical writer for Brightlight's anti-spam software (http://www.brightlight.com/). | |
| 1994 - 1996 | WORLDS,
INC., San Francisco, CA, USA. Creative Director and Producer of Starbright
World, a multi-user networked virtual reality playspace for seriously ill
children, for the Starbright Foundation (Steven Spielberg, chairman.) Defined
creative vision of project, managed content team of artists and programmers.
Final demo involved kids on stage in New York with Steven Spielberg and General Norman Schwartzkopf, networked together with kids at 4 hospitals around the country. |
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| 1992 | OMNIBUS
JAPAN, Tokyo, Japan: Consulted on user interface for Japanese versions of
Side Effects Software's Prism 3D computer graphic animation software. |
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| 1991 | THINKING
MACHINES CORPORATION, Cambridge, MA, USA. Consulted on packaging and industrial
design of the Connection Machine CM-5 supercomputer. |
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| 1986 - 1991 | SOFTLAB
GmbH, Munich, Germany. Technical writer and translator for English language
documentation for Softlab's CASE products (Computer-Aided Software Engineering.) |
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| 1983 - 1985 | THINKING
MACHINES CORPORATION, Cambridge, MA, USA. Head of Packaging and Industrial
Design for the Connection Machines CM-1 and CM-2, the first commercially available massively parallel supercomputers. Co-holder of CM-1 patent for "Method for Interconnecting Processors in Hyper-Dimensional Array." There are Connection Machines in the collections of the COMPUTER MUSEUM, Boston, MA and the Museum of American History, SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, Washington DC, USA. |
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| 1979 - 1981 | HEWLETT-PACKARD,
SUNNYVALE, CA, USA. Packaging Design Engineer. Two computer terminal
products released to the market. (top of page) TEACHING EXPERIENCE |
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| Spring 1999 | CITY
COLLEGE of SAN FRANCISCO, San Francisco, CA, USA. Developed and taught a
class in multimedia process and production. |
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| Spring 1994 | CARNEGIE
MELLON UNIVERSITY, Pittsburgh, PA, USA. Visiting Associate Professor of
Design. Developed and taught two classes: Modern Fetishes, Relics and Totems (design theory and studio project) and Do Machines Have Souls? (design theory). |
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| 1993 | MEDIENLABOR MUENCHEN, Munich, Germany. Taught workshops in video art. | |
| 1982-1983 | MASSACHUSETTS
INSTITUTE of TECHNOLOGY, Cambridge, MA, USA. Media Lab (Visual Language Workshop): Taught video art workshops. Department of Mechanical Engineering: Teaching Assistant for FORTRAN programming class. |
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| PUBLICATIONS | ||
| 2001 | "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. |
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| 2000 | Images
from the series Metamorphoses featured on front and back covers of Leonardo Journal, MIT Press, Volume 33 #2, 2000, and on Leonardo's website. |
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| 1995 | Thiel, Tamiko. "Machine Sapiens," YLEM NEWSLETTER, Vol. 15, No. 6, Nov./Dec. 1995. pp. 5-6. | |
| 1994 | 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," DESIGN ISSUES, The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, Vol. 10, No. 1, Spring 1994. pp. 5-18. |
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| 1993 | 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, |
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| LECTURES | ||
| 2001 | "Dramaturgie
fuer Interaktive VR", (in German) Hochschule für Film und Fernsehen,
Potsdam-Babelsberg, Germany. Panel discussion on the Japanese-American Internment, together with Dr. Frank Kitamoto of the Bainbridge Island Nikkeikai, Cherry Blossom Festival, Seattle, WA, USA. "Entstehungsgeschichte: Beyond Manzanar", (in German) Fachhochschule Augsburg, Augsburg, Germany. "Beyond Manzanar und die Leitkulturdiscussion," artist's talk (in German) at the Lothringerstrasse 13 / LADEN Gallery, Munich, Germany |
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| 2000 | "New Media de Kanjo wo Furitsukeru", (in Japanese) Sapporo School of the Arts, Sapporo, Japan. | |
| 1999 | "Beyond
Manzanar - Work in progress" (in Japanese), International Academy of the
Media Arts and Sciences (IAMAS), Ogaki City, Japan.
"Fantasies and Other Realities", Viper Media Art Festival, Lucerne, Switzerland. "Virtual Worlds", Art Center College of Design, Pasadena CA. |
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| 1998 | Virtually
Paradise: Virtual Spaces as Refuge," Out of the Box Summit on Interactivity,
BANFF CENTRE for the ARTS, Banff, Canada. "Digital Butoh", Digital Art Pavilion, PALO ALTO FESTIVAL of the ARTS, Palo Alto, CA, USA. |
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| 1997 | "Personal
Fantasies and Public Realities" CHIK TEK 97: Women Artists Defining Technology,
held by the CADRE Institute at the San Jose Art Museum, San Jose, CA.
"Virtual Environments and Healing" AVATARS 97, San Francisco, CA, USA. "Virtuelle Koerper; Virtuelle Welten" (in German), TECHNO-Z FACHHOCHSCHULE, Salzburg, Austria. "Virtuelle Koerper; Virtuelle Welten" (in German), DOLL.MONSTER.DEATH.: Cultural Transformation Processes of Bio- and Information Technologies," Natural History Museum, Vienna, Austria. |
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| 1994 | "Calculating
Clock to Connection Machine: The Changing Image of Computers," Museum of
American History, SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, Washington DC, USA. "Machine as Mirror, Machine as Model," IDEO, San Francisco, CA, USA. |
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| 1993 | "Symposium
on Media Arts Criticism," MEDIENLABOR MUENCHEN, Munich, Germany.
"Roboter, Animaten und kuenstliche Lebewesen," Genetic Art - Artificial Life, ARS ELECTRONICA 93, Linz, Austria. |
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| LANGUAGES
English:
fluent (native German:
fluent Italian:
conversational Japanese:
conversational fluency, can lecture and give interviews about my work.
Russian:
some Spanish:
could reach |