Virtuelle Mauer / ReConstructing the Wall

Virtuelle Mauer/ReConstructing the Wall received the Grand Prize of the IBM Innovation Awards for artistic creation in art and technology at the 2009 Boston Cyberarts Festival!

Mumbai, India (formerly Bombay)
Opening: January 29, 2010, 5pm
Exhibition: January 30 - February 7, 2010
Solo exhibit at the Industrial Design Center of the Indian Institute of Technology
in cooperation with the Goethe-Institut Mumbai.

Bangalore, India
Opening: 6:00pm, January 15, 2010
Exhibition: January 16-24, 2010
Solo exhibit at the Goethe-Institut Bangalore.

Colombo, Sri Lanka
Opening: 6pm, January 7, 2010
Exhibition: January 8-16, 2010
Solo exhibit at the Goethe-Institut Sri Lanka.

New Delhi, India
Opening: December 10, 2009, 19:00 h
Exhibition: December 11-18, 2009
Solo exhibit at the Goethe-Institut New Delhi.

Los Angeles, USA
Opening: November 19, 6-9pm
Exhibition: November 20 - December 3, 2009
Solo exhibit at the Goethe-Institut Los Angeles.

Washington D.C., USA
Opening:   November 7.
                    5pm : Opening remarks from German Ambassador Klaus Scharioth,
                              followed by artists' talk by T+T (Tamiko Thiel and Teresa Reuter).
                    6-9pm: Reception
Exhibition: November 8 - December 20, 2009. Tues. - Sun. 11am - 4pm
Solo exhibit at the American University Museum
in cooperation with the Goethe-Institut Washington.

Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Exhibition: November 03 - 09, 2009
Closing ceremony on November 09, 17:30 h
Speakers: German Consul Friedrich Loehr and Professor Steven Walt
Special event to commemorate the Fall of the Berlin Wall sponsored by Harvard Kennedy School of Government and Goethe-Institut Boston, organized by the McCloy Scholars German-Austrian Caucus.
John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University

Berlin, Germany (interactive 3D installation)
Opening:   November 5
Exhibition: November 6, 2009 - February 7, 2010
Exhibit of the interactive 3D installation "Virtuelle Mauer / ReConstructing the Wall" as part of the group show "FALLMAUERFALL | 61-89-09" at the Ephraim-Palais, Berlin City Museum.
-->Thematic Tour: Virtuelle Mauer for Young People? (in German!)
     Wednesday, 20 January, 17:00 h and Saturday, 23 January, 16:00 h
--> Long Night of the Museums: 30 January 2010, 20:00-23:00 h
      Presentation by Teresa Reuter from the artist team T+T

Berlin, Germany (fine art prints)
As a further output of the project "Virtuelle Mauer" we are exhibiting a selection of fine art prints in the gallery [DAM] Berlin. These digital collages were created primarily from screenshots of the 3D artwork "Virtuelle Mauer / ReConstructing the Wall," but are independent works of art in their own right. The exhibit "ReVisioning the Virtual Wall" is designed to be complementary to and will overlap with an exhibit of the interactive 3D installation "Virtuelle Mauer/ReConstructing the Wall" in the Ephraim-Palais in Berlin (see below).
"ReVisioning the Virtual Wall"
Collages based on the 3D installation "Virtuelle Mauer/ReConstructing the Wall"
T+T | Tamiko Thiel – Teresa Reuter – Sabe Wunsch
Opening: October 30, 19 - 21 Uhr
Exhibition: October 31 - 28 November 2009
Solo exhibition in [DAM] Berlin (Digital Art Museum Berlin)

Wolfsburg, Germany
Opening September 03, 19:00h
Exhibition: September 04 - November 08, 2009
As part of the group show "Reconstructed Zone" in the Kunstverein Wolfsburg.

Biddeford, Maine, USA
Exhibition: October 2 - 7, 2009
Solo exhibit at the University of New England in cooperation with the Goethe-Institut Boston.

"The Virtual Wall", lecture/demo by Teresa Reuter as part of "Old and New Borders in Europe: International and Interdisciplinary Summer School", at the Centre Marc Bloch, Berlin, Germany, 8 July 2009.

Lecture/demo by Tamiko Thiel and Teresa Reuter as part of "Erinnerungsorte: Denkmal und Gedenken" ("Places of Remembrance: Memorials and Remembrance", at the Chair for Historic Preservation and Design, Technical University Dresden, Germany, 23 June 2009.

Lubeck, Germany
Opening: June 12
Exhibition: June 13 - July 19, 2009
Solo exhibit at the Willy-Brandt-Haus.

Boston, USA
Opening: April 23, 6 pm Artists' Talk with Tamiko Thiel and Teresa Reuter
Exhibition: April 24 - May 6, 2009
Solo exhibit at the Goethe-Institut Boston as part of the Boston Cyberarts Festival.
--> We were awarded the Grand Prize for the IBM Innovation Awards!
--> See reviews - including Critic's Pick for visual arts from the Boston Globe!

Lecture/demo by Tamiko Thiel and Teresa Reuter for the Upgrade! Munich, hosted by the Chair for Urbanism, Technical University, Munich, Germany, 22 January, 2009

USA premiere: Seattle, USA
November 7, 2008 - January 20, 2009
US premiere of Virtuelle Mauer/ReConstructing the Wall at the 911 Media Arts Center in cooperation with the American Institute of Architects - Seattle
--> See photos of the opening reception on Robert Wade's blog
--> Read reviews of the exhibit

World Premiere: Berlin, Germany
Opening reception: August 13, 2008
Exhibition: August 14 - September 7, 2008.
World premiere of Virtuelle Mauer/ReConstructing the Wall at the Museum for Communication .
--> See our page on the opening reception, with photo gallery!

"Virtual Reality Art Environments as Learning Resources," lecture by Tamiko Thiel at the Interfiction XII "Learning from/with/in Media Cultures" as part of the 22nd Kassel Documentary Film and Video Festival, Kassel, Germany, 11. - 13. November 2005.

"Virtual Memorials" roundtable discussion with Tamiko Thiel, Goethe-Institut Boston as part of the Boston Cyberarts Festival, Boston, USA, April 28, 2005.

"ReConstructing the Berlin Wall: The virtual experience of an urban fact and symbol," lecture by Tamiko Thiel, Harvard University Center for European Studies, Cambridge, USA, Nov. 23, 2004.