Shades of Absence: Public Voids

Tamiko Thiel, 2011
© In the Piazza San Marco Venice for the 2011 Venice Biennale intervention. ; Tamiko Thiel, 2011

Tamiko Thiel

Shades of Absence: Public Voids , ongoing
Co-workers & Funding
Tamiko Thiel, 2011
Documents
  • "Shades of Absence: Public Voids," Piazza San Marco, Venice
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  • "Shades of Absence: Public Voids," Piazza San Marco, Venice
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  • "Shades of Absence: Public Voids," under the Brooklyn Bridge, Brooklyn, NY
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  • "Shades of Absence: Public Voids," under the Brooklyn Bridge, Brooklyn, NY
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Description
This augmented reality installation creates "pavilions of absence" in which images of contemporary artists, whose works in public space have been censored, are reduced to gold silhouettes and placed in the midst of terms of transgression. Each erased silhouette stands for countless unknown or lesser known artists who face censorship or persecution with no public support.

Touching the screen while viewing the artwork brings a link to a website on censorship of artists’ works in public space – including several cases at the Venice Biennial itself.
Keywords
  • aesthetics
    • assembled
    • contextual
    • panoramatic
  • genres
    • conceptual art
      • art interventions
    • digital activism
    • digital graphics
    • installations
      • augmented reality (AR)
      • mixed reality
  • subjects
    • Art and Science
      • documentation
    • Arts and Visual Culture
      • art history
      • panoramas
      • theory
        • simulacrum
      • visual culture
    • History and Memory
      • archives
      • historical sites
      • history
    • Media and Communication
      • visualization
    • Power and Politics
      • censorship
      • democracies
    • Society and Culture
      • public spaces
      • urban space
    • Technology and Innovation
      • invention
  • technology
    • software
      • Global Positioning System (GPS)
      • PHP
Technology & Material
Hardware
iOS and Android mobile devices
Software
Layar augmented reality app; custom AR server
Bibliography