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Honors for Tamiko‘s life work creating politically and socially critical media artworks exploring place, space, the body and cultural identity include: the 2018 the SAT Montreal iX Visionary Pioneer Award, in 2024 induction into the AWE XR Hall of Fame and the SIGGRAPH “Distinguished Artist Lifetime Achievement Award in Computer Graphics.” In 2024 CAI Magazine ranked her in the top 10 most famous digital artists in the world. Thiel was lead product designer on the Connection Machines CM-1/CM-2 (1986/1987), the first AI supercomputer. It influenced Google’s AI technology and inspired Steve J...