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Virtuelle Mauer Wins IBM Innovation Award

May 15th, 2009

Tamiko Thiel and Teresa Reuter’s virtual reality installation on the Berlin wall, Virtuelle Mauer/Reconstructing the Wall, was awarded the IBM Innovation Award for artistic creation in art and technology at the 2009 Boston Cyberarts Festival! Virtuelle Mauer/Reconstructing the Wall had its US premier at 911 in our Media Arts Gallery from November of 2008 through January 2009. Congratulations, Tamiko and Teresa! The piece also won the Boston Globe’s Critic’s Pick for visual arts. For more information about the installation and the artists, visit their website here.

Next stop for Reconstructing the Wall: Willy-Brandt-Haus in Lübeck, Germany!

Tour 2009
Boston, USA April 23 – May 06, Goethe-Institut / Boston Cyberarts Festival
Lübeck, Germany June 12 – July 12, Willy-Brandt-Haus
Gijon, Spain Oct. 23 – April 05, 2010, LABoral
Berlin, Germany Nov. 05 – Feb. 01, 2010, Ephraim-Palais
Washington DC, USA Nov. 07 – Dec. 20, American Univ. Museum / Goethe-Institut
Los Angeles, USA Nov. 20 – Dec. 03, Goethe-Institut  Gallery opening: November 19, 6-9pm
Rome, Italy November – December
New Delhi, India Dec. 10 – Dec. 22, Goethe-Institut

For images from this interactive, 3-D installation about the Berlin Wall see: http://www.virtuelle-mauer-berlin.de/english/devFiles/screenshots.htm

You can also check out the exhibition schedule webpage, with links to the venues:


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