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<nettime-ann> THE ARCHIVE OF DIGITAL ART (ADA) FEATURES TAMIKO THIEL |
. THE ARCHIVE OF DIGITAL ART (ADA) FEATURES TAMIKO THIEL Check it out: www.digitalartarchive.at Tamiko Thiel is internationally renowned for her impressive and politically-engaged virtual and augmented reality installations. She visualizes thoughts and concepts with digital means in a sensitive way and combines it with real world places, objects and settings. This approach allows her to provide a non-western perspective on western culture, to reminds us of historical events right in the places where they happened or shows us how our neighborhoods could look like in the future. MATTHEW WILSON SMITH >Like her creation Mariko Horo,[...] Tamiko Thiel is a border-crosser and an explorer of virtual space. [â] It recalls Thielâs work in showing how the concrete and the virtual, the bounded and the streaming, the grid and the fold are now not only inseparable, but mutually reinforcing< OLIVER GRAU >Art, that connects innovatively and playfully contemporary digital culture with social, societal and ecological issues, was developed by Tamiko Thiel in the last 20 years. Particularly internationally renowned is her Memorial Art, that impressively recalls the Berlin Wall or the Californian internment camps in an unprecedented way.< CHRISTIANE PAUL >Beyond Manzanar (2000) [...] illustrates a chasm of cultural identity, contrasting a dream world of cultural heritage with a reality of political injustice.< The Archive of Digital art provides the most extensive documentation on Thiels Oeuvre containing works like >Shades of Absence: Outside Inside< (2011), which gave a voice to artists who have been threatened with arrest or physical violence by visualizing their silhouettes and names with AR technology at Venice Biennale, or >Invisible Istanbul< (2011) using smartphone augmented reality to overlay virtual artworks onto physical spaces of specific sites in Istanbul, creating surrealistic and poetic juxtapositions between real and virtual within the context of the hidden urban dynamics of the places. Some of her most acclaimed works documented in ADA recall historical incidents by the means of immersive 3-D Virtual Reality installations: >Beyond Manzanar< (2000) recollects the suffering of Japanese Americans in the internment camps during World War II and >ReConstructing the Wall< (2008) gives people, who did not experience the Berlin Wall, an idea of the political, sociological and territorial division in former East and West Germany. www.digitalartarchive.at COLLABORTIVE ARCHIVING OF DIGITAL ART The large assortment of information on Tamiko Thiel and hundreds of other leading artists and their artworks were carried out by the artists themselves with members of the ADA community. The new ADA web tool allows members to archive artist statements, works descriptions, literature, information on exhibitions, high Resolution images, blueprints, videos etc. SCHOLARS also contribute to the archive by uploading their publications, information on conferences, exhibitions and teaching. Artists and scholars work collaboratively on the documentation and analysis of digital art. https://www.digitalartarchive.at/support/account-request.html THE ARCHIVE OF DIGITAL ART â PIONEER IN THE FIELD Since its foundation in 1999, the Archive of Digital Art (former Database of Virtual Art) has become the most important scholarly online Archive for media art. In cooperation with established media artists, researchers, and institutions, it has been documenting the rapidly evolving world of digital art and its related fields for more than a decade and contains today a selection of thousands of artworks at the intersection of art, science, and technology. ARTISTS represented, among many others: Rebecca ALLEN, Suzanne ANKER, Cory ARCANGEL, Roy ASCOTT, Louis BEC, Maurice BENAYOUN, Paolo CIRIO, Charlotte DAVIES, FLEISCHMANN & STRAUSS, Masaki FUJIHATA, Ken GOLDBERG , Agnes HEGEDÃS, Lynn HERSHMAN LEESON, Ryoji IKEDA, Eduardo KAC, Ken RINALDO, KNOWBOTICRESEARCH, Lev MANOVICH, George LEGRADY, Golan LEVIN, Rafael LOZANO-HEMMER, Joseph NECHVATAL, Michael NAIMARK, David ROKEBY, Jeffrey SHAW, Julius v. BISMARCK, Paul SERMON, Karl SIMS, SOMMERER & MIGNONNEAU, STANZA, Nicole STENGER, THOMSON & CRAIGHEAD, Peter WEIBEL, et al. Advisory board: Christiane PAUL, Roy ASCOTT, Erkki HUHTAMO, Gunalan NADARAJAN, Martin ROTH, et.al. ADA team: Prof. Dr. habil. Oliver GRAU Michaela SEISER (Editor, Community Admin) Sebastian HALLER, Viola RÃHSE, Wendy COONES, Ann-Christin RENN (Editorial Team) digitalart.editor@donau-uni.ac.at www.digitalartarchive.at _______________________________________________ nettime-ann mailing list nettime-ann@nettime.org http://www.nettime.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nettime-ann