Tamiko Thiel & /p
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In 2024 Tamiko Thiel was awarded the SIGGRAPH Distinguished Artist Lifetime Achievement Award in Digital Arts, ranked in the top 10 most famous digital artists by CAI Magazine, and inducted into the inaugural cohort of AWE XR Hall of Fame for her politically and socially critical media artworks exploring place, space, the body and cultural identity. After her studies in product design at Stanford University in 1979 and in mechanical engineering at MIT in 1983, Thiel worked at the Thinking Machines Corporation founded by Danny Hillis. Thiel led the product design team creating the form of the first commercial artificial intelligence supercomputers, Danny Hillis’ Connection Machine CM‑1 and CM‑2. She subsequently studied fine arts at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Munich, from 1985 to 1991. Thiel has held solo exhibitions at Kunstverein Wolfsburg (2022), The Photographers’ Gallery London and DAM Projects Berlin. Her work has also been exhibited at the Ludwig Muzeum, Budapest (2024); ZKM — Zentrum für Kunst und Medien, Karlsruhe (2022); Casino Luxembourg — Forum d’art contemporain, Luxembourg (2021); The Museum of Modern Art, New York (2019, 2017); and in a guerilla intervention into the 54th Biennale di Venezia (2011). Thiel lives and works in Munich.
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/p is a German media artist with a degree in Computer Science. /p has been working on web based projects and virtual reality since 1994. Since the Whitney Museum commission for Unexpected Growth in 2018 /p has been collaborating on media artworks with Tamiko Thiel. In 2024 Current, /p’s AR sound experience in collaboration with Anne Wichmann and Anke Schiemann, won the New Realities Award 2024 presented by the Bavarian Minister for Digital Media at the 1E9 Festival of the Future, Munich. /p is gender neutral and uses no pronouns.
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