Tamiko Thiel

Tamiko Thiel won the 2018 Visionary Pioneer Award of the Society for Art and Technology (SAT) in Montreal for over 35 years of political and socially critical media artworks exploring place, space, the body and cultural identity. She was lead product designer on Danny Hillis’ Connection Machine CM1 (1986) and CM2 (1987) AI supercomputer, the fastest computer on earth in 1989 and now in the collection of MoMA NY.

She developed her first VR project as producer/creative director of “Starbright World” (1994-1997) with Steven Spielberg. Her first AR was “ARt Critic Face Matrix” (2010), in a path-breaking AR intervention into MoMA in New York. Her VR artwork “Beyond Manzanar” (2000) is in the collection of the San Jose Museum of Art and her AR commission “Unexpected Growth” (2018) is in the Whitney Museum’s collection. In 2020, she created the AI deepfake art installation “Lend Me Your Face!” and, in 2021, The Photographer’s Gallery London commissioned its online net art version titled “Go Fake Yourself!”.