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Artists: Tamiko Thiel

From Engaged Media to the relation of Body – Site – Virtualities

On mutual practice of media art to awaken public’s awareness of climate change, Mechthild Schmidt Feist and Tamiko Thiel will present their most significant individual works as visual artists and educators in New York, Germany and Singapore. Mechthild Schmidt Feist has engaged herself in New York environmental movement through various projects, including ‘Mirror Garden3’ which builds artificial Flora and alludes to the Icarus saga of human’s struggle to balance exploration of and interference with nature and her current project ‘L-E-S-S  / Less of Everything – Esthetics of Sharing and Sustainability’...

Tamiko Thiel

Tamiko Thiel is a visual artist exploring the interplay of place, space, the body, cultural memory and identity. Her installations and artworks seek to actively engage viewers’ proprioceptive senses to meld virtual imagery with their physical bodily perceptions and the sense of place of the site, creating a new, hybrid form of reality. Currently she is Visiting Associate Professor at the Nanyang Technological University School of Art, Design and Media (ADM) in Singapore teaching Augmented Reality and Interactive Spaces....