Myriam Thyes

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Full Name	Myriam Thyes
Occupation	Artist
Date Of Birth	Sep 22, 1963(1963-09-22)
Age	61
Birthplace	Luxembourg
Country	Switzerland
Horoscope	Virgo

Myriam Thyes Biography

Myriam Thyes is one of the most popular and richest Artist who was born on September 22, 1963 in Luxembourg, Switzerland. Myriam Thyes, a Swiss new media artist, was born 1963 in Luxembourg. She lives in Dusseldorf and works there.

Thyes was a participant in the Art Colony Galichnik, Macedonia, Summer 2010. Together, curators and artists from different Balkan countries collaborated. Thyes asked her subjects to answer in their mother tongues (Serbian/Croatian/Bosnian, Macedonian, Bulgarian and Albanian) and then subtitled their replies into English. In a two-channel video installation called From Art Colony Galichnik With Love (Macedonia 2010, Thyes created a collage of voices and images. Thyes captures the thoughts and words of her subjects, and then combines them with photos of the countryside. Partly by matching two sets of images, she creates an intimate picture of the characters and personalities. Landscapes and towns are used to show the origins of the speaker or highlight the content. Thyes is a Swiss- and Luxembourgian-born artist who puts the individual at its core. Thyes tells a story about the human needs that are present at a particular point and time in time. This, in turn, reflects the needs people experience anywhere and anytime.

One of her best known works – frequently shown in exhibitions and festivals internationally – is the participatory animation project Flag Metamorphoses. She started in 2005 a continuously growing series of Flash animations concerning flags, other national symbols, and relations between countries. It’s a work about relations between nations and identities: each artist who creates a flag animation expresses such a relation in his or her own way. So far, the series contains 40 animations by 30 international artists and teams. All animations together include about 100 different nations. Professor Paul Wells about Flag Metamorphoses in his book Re-Imagining Animation: “Thyes’s work is a very particular response to what she describes a very human ‘double wish’ to have both an individual identity and yet belong to a bigger group, often represented through nations, which are themselves ‘imagined communities’. On her choice of flags as iconic Stimuli, Thyes recognises that their symbolism often endures beyond the actual conditions a nation lives through, sometimes remaining largely aspirational (…) Working in such a direct and politicised way, Thyes saw the opportunity to embrace both a democratic approach to the creation of work responsive to a core theme while engaging with other artists, but also in relation to its dissemination to a global audience on the World Wide Web. (…) Inevitably, this level of engagement prompts differing approaches and levels of interrogation. The political level looks at relationships between neighbouring countries, colonial ties and cultural imperialism. On the other hand, the artistic level examines the collapse and revision of largely geometric forms into more amorphous, organic and fluid configurations. (…) Thyes recognised that the key concept of changing cultures was readily revealed through the use of animation’s core language of metamorphosis, and in the way animation could reveal and yet challenge the dense meanings embedded in national image systems. (…) Conceptually, Thyes felt that the best results might be achieved if the metamorphoses themselves took place within a single frame: ‘What I have in mind is generally one changing image, not a film with scenes and cuts.’ (…) This use of the formalist limits of the frame, while addressing the conditions of transition and meaning within it, reflects Thyes’s background and identity as a visual artist. The particular influence of Russian Constructivism and the work of the Bauhaus movement are reflected in her collage technique and political satire.” In the 1990s, she had worked with real flags as installations in public areas: She created and painted new designs and symbols on flags and hung them beside and between official flags in Dusseldorf and Luxembourg.

Thyes is represented by the media art foundation ‘Imai – inter media art institute’ (Germany) and videokunst.ch (Switzerland). She is member of Deutscher Künstlerbund (visual artists association, Germany) and Visarte (visual artists association, Switzerland).

LA Freewaves: You can see video art on billboards along Sunset Boulevard and in stores at the new media festival 2004, which took place in Los Angeles. It was directed by Anne Bray. Cathrien Schreuder: Myriam Thyes’s A Little Meditation on Sunset Boulevard, Hollywood is an excellent example. Her animated yin/yang symbol, which is animated in a yin/yang pattern, ‘fights against commerce to preserve its own form and wrests a space for itself in the streetscape. Thyes uses a universal metaphor to visualize the inequalities within the oublic space force field. (…) This work adds to the streetscape it is shown on, such as the Victory Park Screens in Dallas, Dusseldorf and Bern and numerous screens in Melbourne, Manchester, and Dublin.

Myriam Thyes Net Worth

Myriam Thyes is one of the richest Artist from Switzerland. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Myriam Thyes 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Myriam Thyes was raised in Zurich and was born in Luxembourg. After receiving a certificate of higher education admission, she attended Hoehere Schule fur Gestaltung Zurich (now ZHdK Zurich University of the Arts), Switzerland. From 1986 to 1992, she studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Dusseldorf and Kunstakademie Dusseldorf. She also studied painting with Professor Rissa and video art with Nan Hoover. Kunstakademie Dusseldorf awarded her the degree of ‘Meisterschueler. Thyes has been participating in international festivals and exhibitions since 1994.

Myriam Thyes’ main artistic media have been video, 2D computer animations, photography, and digital imaging since 1999. She has been initiating and implementing participatory projects as well as media art projects in public spaces since 2000. Strictly Public, an artist group she co-founded, was invited to the transmediale Berlin media art festival. Strictly Public already showed video art in North Rhine-Westphalia’s metro stations in 2001 and 2002, respectively. Thyes’s video art work in these programs included “A little Meditation”, the animation of the Yang symbol. It was shown, for example, on the big screen at Frankfurt/Main’s central station.

Malcolm Dickson, director of Street Level Photoworks in Glasgow, in his text Glasgow Styles: “Myriam Thyes’s series Glasgow Styles delineates how Glasgow as a contemporary city reflects its past through the present. Initially what seems like a random visual derive is coherently held together through a detailed narrative that the artist has perceptively encountered and which helps to inform Thyes’ personal topography of our city. This topography is the city’s changing face – a place historically and contemporaneously of contrasts and tensions.”

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