teamLab: Digitized River and Forest | teamLab

Name: teamLab: Digitized River and Forest
Start: 2018-02-09
End: 2018-02-18
Location: Tokushima City Center

VERGANGENE AUSSTELLUNGs

2018.02.09(Fri) - 02.18(Sun)Tokushima City Center, Tokushima

VERGANGENE AUSSTELLUNGs

2018.02.09(Fri) - 02.18(Sun)Tokushima City Center, Tokushima

TOKUSHIMA LED DIGITAL ART FESTIVAL

In 2018 Tokushima City will hold a digital art event using LEDs. The purpose of the event is accentuate the charm of the city, create new value, and draw visitors from both within Japan and abroad. In addition to symbolic art exhibitions, there will be a range of events going on in Tokushima, including workshops and seminars.

teamLab: Digitized River and Forest

Tokushima City is a city of water that is nurtured in the Yoshino River and flows through 138 rivers.

In the castle ruins of Tokushima Castle, in the center of town, there is the Shiroyama primary forest (a forest untouched by human hands). Areas of virgin forest such as this are very rare in Japan. Also located in the central area of town there is a very unusual and vast green belt, with a “dragon king” camphor tree that is 600 years of age, and 80 kinds of wild birds survive in the area.

Taking advantage of Tokushima City's natural beauty, we use light, sound, and digital technology, to transform the river and the forest in the center of the city into a digital art space that changes according to the existence of people.

WERKE

Autonomous Resonating Life

The self-righting ovoid objects are autonomous, they shine brightly and then fade as if they are slowly breathing.
When the objects are pushed by people, the color of their light changes, and they emit a unique sound tone. The color and the sound then resonates out to the objects around them. The resonating light is transmitted to the next object one after another, spreading the color tone in the same way continuously.
If a wave of light rushes from one direction, it signifies the presence of a person in that location. As a result, people gain a heightened awareness of the presence of other people in the same space.

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Peace can be Realized Even without Order

Each figure plays an instrument or dances. There is no one who influences the whole, or has an overall understanding of the whole, nor a conductor like in an orchestra. However, the figures are influenced by the rhythm of the sounds nearby. The figures influence each other, and through a synchronization phenomena, the rhythms of the nearby figures become closer to each other.The synchronization phenomena is when different rhythms influence each other and become aligned. The pendulums of two pendulum clocks hanging on the wall gradually become aligned. When many fireflies gather on a tree, they gradually start to flash at the same time, creating a large light. The cells that make up the heart synchronize and vibrate at the same time, generating heartbeats. This can be seen in a variety of systems, including physical phenomena, neurophysiology, living systems, and ecosystems.
Dance can also be seen as a phenomenon of the body synchronizing with the environment. Since ancient times, dances performed at festivals after hunting or harvesting may have intentionally incorporated a state of body resonance that sought to integrate one's own existence with that of others, and increase the sustainability of the group through peaceful distribution.
To the viewer, the other people who overlap with the figures exist in the world of the artwork, and when seen by others as overlapping with the figures, the viewer also exists in the space of the artwork.
Multiple viewpoints are placed in the space of the world of the artwork, and the space of the artwork around the viewpoints is cut out and flattened using Ultrasubjective Space. When this flat surface is then placed in the exhibition space in the same position relative to the viewpoints, the world of the artwork is superimposed on the exhibition space. The viewer's viewpoint is not fixed; their viewpoint can move freely not only left and right but also in the depth direction, allowing them to explore a physical perception that immerses their entire body in the world of the artwork as they walk freely in all directions. When the viewer sees other people overlapping with the work through the screen, for them it is equivalent to that person being present not only in the exhibition space but also in the space of the artwork, and the other people become a part of the work.

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Resonating Forest in the Castle Ruins Mountain

The light of each tree is autonomous; slowly breathing, it shines brightly and then fades.

When visitors or animals approach the trees, the light changes color and a tone resonates outward. The neighboring trees will also resonate, switching to the same color and tone. This response will ripple outward to the surrounding trees; it will finally reach the trees in the mountains, and the mountains themselves will resonate.

If a wave of light comes from the other side, it signifies the presence of people there. People gain a heightened sense of awareness of the existence of other people in the same space.

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teamLab Crystal Fireworks

Pointillism uses an accumulation of distinct dots of color to create a picture. Here, light points are used to create three-dimensional fireworks.

People can use their smartphones to select fireworks they like by dragging and releasing them into the work, creating huge, three-dimensional fireworks made up of a collection of lights.

This artwork  is forever evolving, changing moment to moment due to the people in the space.

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Flowers in the Sandfall – A Whole Year per 12 Hours, Tokushima

Height 5210mm, Width1280mm, Depth160mm, a giant three-dimensional LED object.
A seasonal year of the flowers of Tokushima, blossom and scatter over a period of twelve hours. In continuous change the flowers grow, bud, and blossom, and eventually they scatter, wither, and fade away. The flowers go through a continual cycle of birth and death, repeating forever.
When a person stands before the flow of falling sand, the sand’s path is changed by their presence; the flow of the sand parts, and a space opens. 
Since ancient times, people have gazed at falling sand to gain a sense of the passage of short moments in time—and they have watched the changing of flowers to feel the passage of long-term changes in time.
The work is rendered in real time by a computer program; it is neither a pre-recorded animation nor on loop. The interaction between the viewer and the installation causes continuous change in the artwork. Previous visual states can never be replicated, and will never reoccur.

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Universe of Water Particles on Bunkanomori Park

We reproduced the Bunkanomori Park building in 3D in a virtual three-dimensional space. The movement of water was then simulated as if it was a waterfall flowing over the shape of the building. The waterfall is then projection mapped onto the actual building. 
The water is expressed as a continuum of numerous water particles and the interaction between the particles is calculated. Lines are drawn according to the behavior of the water particles. The cumulation of lines that represent the waterfall are then “flattened” in line with what teamLab considers to be ultrasubjective space. 
When a person stands on the waterfall they obstruct the flow of water like a rock, and the flow of water changes. The flow of water continues to transform due to the interaction of people. The same moment is never repeated again.

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Venue Details

teamLab: Digitized River and Forest

Dauer

2018.02.09(Fri) - 02.18(Sun)

Zeiten

6pm – 10pm
*Exception applies to the following artworks:
・Peace can be Realized Even without Order : 1pm – 10pm (6pm – 10pm only on Feb 9)
・Flowers in the Sandfall – A Whole Year per Hour, Tokushima: Weekday: 9am – 10pm, Weekend&Holiday: 6pm – 10pm
・Universe of Water Particles on Bunkanomori Park: 7pm – 9pm

Preis

Free

Website

TOKUSHIMA LED DIGITAL ART FESTIVAL

Transportation to Tokushima

2-hour bus trip from Osaka to Tokushima
Highway Bus Booking Sites

Anreise

Adresse

Autonomous Resonating Life
Venue: Aibahama Park
・3 min by car or 5 min walk from Tokushima Station
・15 min by car from Tokushima Expressway, Tokushima Exit
・30 min by car from Tokushima Awa Odori Airport
・20 min by car from Nankai Ferry Tokushima Terminal
・25 min by car from Tokyu Ocean Ferry Tokushima Terminal

Resonating Forest in the Castle Ruins Mountain
Venue: Tokushima Central Park
・ 3 min by car or 5 min walk from Tokushima Station
・ 15 min by car from Tokushima Expressway, Tokushima Exit
・ 30 min by car from Tokushima Awa Odori Airport
・ 20 min by car from Nankai Ferry Tokushima Terminal
・ 25 min by car from Tokyu Ocean Ferry Tokushima Terminal

Peace can be Realized Even without Order
Venue: Bandai Warehouse
・15 min by car or 25 min walk from Tokushima Station
・15 min by car from Tokushima Expressway, Tokushima Exit
・35 min by car from Tokushima Awa Odori Airport
・15 min by car from Nankai Ferry Tokushima Terminal
・20 min by car from Tokyu Ocean Ferry Tokushima Terminal

teamLab Crystal Fireworks
Venue: In front of Tokushima Prefectural Office
・10 min by car or 15 min walk from Tokushima Station
・10 min by car from Tokushima Expressway, Tokushima Exit
・30 min by car from Tokushima Awa Odori Airport
・10 min by car from Nankai Ferry Tokushima Terminal
・15 min by car from Tokyu Ocean Ferry Tokushima Terminal

KONTAKT

Inquiry

Takushima LED Digital Art Festival Executive Committee (within the Tokushima City Economic Policy Division)

TEL

+81-88-621-5225

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teamLab

teamLab (f. 2001) is an international art collective. Their collaborative practice seeks to navigate the confluence of art, science, technology, and the natural world. Through art, the interdisciplinary group of specialists, including artists, programmers, engineers, CG animators, mathematicians, and architects, aims to explore the relationship between the self and the world, and new forms of perception.

In order to understand the world around them, people separate it into independent entities with perceived boundaries between them. teamLab seeks to transcend these boundaries in our perceptions of the world, of the relationship between the self and the world, and of the continuity of time. Everything exists in a long, fragile yet miraculous, borderless continuity.

teamLab’s works are in the permanent collection of the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne; Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney; Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide; National Gallery of Australia, Canberra;  Amos Rex, Helsinki; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Asian Art Museum, San Francisco; Borusan Contemporary Art Collection, Istanbul; and Asia Society Museum, New York, among others.

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Biographical Documents

teamLab is represented by Pace Gallery, Martin Browne Contemporary and Ikkan Art.

Veranstalter

Takushima LED Digital Art Festival Executive Committee, Tokushima LED Digital Art Promotion Council, Tokushima Prefecture, Tokushima City