»ReVisioning the Virtual Wall« 
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Light Box
© Tamiko Thiel, 2009
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»ReVisioning the Virtual Wall«, 2009
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T+T (Tamiko Thiel)http://www.dam-gallery.de/index.php?id=51&tx_ttnews[tt_news]=191&L=1&cHash=deacf9274772bd201f76fd6d1958ad6e
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fine art digital print, 140x 70 cm, mounted on 4mm Alu-DiBond
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The digital collages (3 shown here by Tamiko Thiel, and 3 others by Teresa Reuter/Sabe Wunsch) show scenographies of the Berlin Wall that are conceived as associative spaces of memories - by mixing temporal and geographical elements as well as "real" and "virtual" material.
The artists used the computer as a medium to mix different time levels (before, during and after the Wall) and perspectives in a single image to create an effect like a sequence of a dream. The transparency of parts of the Wall or of border soldiers refer to the later disintegration of the East German state. The complex structures of the collages are the result of multiple manipulations of the original renderings from the virtual world. These renderings, taken from diverse viewpoints, have been multiplied, intermingled, layered and occasionally supplemented with photographs and archival documents, and then further altered by insertions, shiftings, and fragmentations of the images.
In complement to the exhibition, T+T's interactive virtual reality installation Virtuelle Mauer/ReConstructing the Wall was shown at the Ephraim-Palais in Berlin, as part of the exhibition FALLMAUERFALL | 61-89-09 from 6. November 2009 - 7. February 2010
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