Michael Rees and International Sculpture Center in partnership with Grounds For Sculpture are excited to present adhoc: a virtual talk series. Join Michael Rees as he talks with special guests who work in art, technology, and sculpture with a focus on making and the artist’s role in the current era.
Join us every other week for more episodes! Make sure you subscribe to get updates on the International Sculpture Center. This program is made possible by the New Jersey State Council for the Arts/Department of State, a Partner Agency of the National Endowment for the Arts and by funds from the National Endowment for the Arts. Michael Rees: Synthetic Cells: Site and (Para)Site catalogue is available in in the ISC Store.
Michael Rees is a pioneer working with sculpture, technology, and interactivity exploring the dynamic between physical objects and virtual spaces. His invented sculptural platforms are made of robot assisted carvings, automatic dimensional prints, augmented reality, and photography. He is a professor and runs a one of a kind robot lab as the Director of the Center for New Art at William Paterson University developing one of the first experimental curriculums in sculpture and new media. He lives in North Bergen, New Jersey on the Palisade overlooking Manhattan with his wife the painter Mary Ann Strandell. Follow Michael Rees on social media: Facebook, Instagram, Twitter.
Tamiko Thiel Tamiko Thiel is a visual artist exploring the interplay of place, space, the body and cultural identity. She works in a variety of media ranging from supercomputers to digital prints and videos to interactive 3d virtual reality worlds and augmented and mixed reality artworks and installations. Her long form biography is available here: https://tamikothiel.com/cv.html#biography
Tamiko Thiel was awarded the 2018 Visionary Pioneer Award by the Society for Art and Technology Montreal for her (now over 35) years of media artworks exploring the interplay of place, space, the body and cultural identity in political and socially critical artworks. She was lead product designer on Danny HIllis‘ "Connection Machine CM1/CM2“ AI supercomputer, in 1989 the fastest computer on earth and now in the collection of MoMA NY. She began working with virtual reality in 1994 as producer and creative director of "Starbright World" (1994-‘97), in collaboration with Steven Spielberg, and with augmented reality in 2010, showing her „ARt Critic Face Matrix“ as part of a path-breaking AR intervention into MoMA NY. Her first VR art installation "Beyond Manzanar" (2000, w/Zara Houshmand) is in the collection of the San Jose Museum of Art, and her AR commissions include "Unexpected Growth" (2018, with /p) for the Whitney Museum, now in the permanent collection. In 2020 she came full circle to her beginnings in the AI world with her AI deepfake art installation „Lend Me Your Face!“ (with /p). Website: https://tamikothiel.com/ Facebook: @tamiko.thiel Instagram: @tamikothiel Twitter: @tamikothiel LinkedIn: @tamiko-thiel-5b869b44