Publiziert in CLADmag, (2018)
LIGHT FANTASTIC
Digital art collective teamLab create jaw dropping installations and are set to open their first museum in Tokyo later this year. Magali Robathan hears their story.（Excerpt from the text）
Story of the Forest
teamLab, 2016, Interactive Digital installation, Endless, Sound: Hideaki Takahashi
Story of the Forest
teamLab, 2016, Interactive Digital installation, Endless, Sound: Hideaki Takahashi
Featuring flowers, plants, and animals native to Singapore and its region, Story of the Forest has turned the Glass Rotunda of the National Museum of Singapore into a mesmerizing digital art piece. The large-scale installation consists of a drum-shaped space with a domed ceiling 15 meters high, with a bridge spanning across the dome and a 170 meter passage that continues on from the bridge and down to the base of the drum.
The dome ceiling showcases the infinitely expanding universe where the flowers of Singapore bloom and change over time.
Crossing the sky bridge through the falling flowers of the dome, visitors descend down the passageway through a vast interactive forest inhabited by the animals of Singapore. As visitors proceed, the forest changes from morning to night. The forest also changes in accordance with the dry and wet seasons of Singapore.
On entering the base of the dome, if visitors stand still while close to the wall, an area of ground emerges, a forest rises up, and animals appear. The artwork is depicted in real time by a computer program. Previous visual states can never be replicated, and will never reoccur.
The dome ceiling showcases the infinitely expanding universe where the flowers of Singapore bloom and change over time.
Crossing the sky bridge through the falling flowers of the dome, visitors descend down the passageway through a vast interactive forest inhabited by the animals of Singapore. As visitors proceed, the forest changes from morning to night. The forest also changes in accordance with the dry and wet seasons of Singapore.
On entering the base of the dome, if visitors stand still while close to the wall, an area of ground emerges, a forest rises up, and animals appear. The artwork is depicted in real time by a computer program. Previous visual states can never be replicated, and will never reoccur.
NEWS
Publiziert in Bloomberg, (Nov 28, 2017)
TeamLab on 'Brilliant Ideas' | Episode 67
Founded in 2001 by Toshiyuki Inoko, teamLab is a 400-strong Japanese digital art collective whose members include artists, programmers, engineers, CG animators, mathematicians, architects and designers.（Excerpt from the text）
Publiziert in PHILLIPS 20th Century & Contemporary Art & Design HongKong, (Nov 26, 2017)
teamLab
teamLab
Founded in 2001 by the physicist and IT graduate Toshiyuki Inoko, teamLab is aTokyo-based interdisciplinary art collective whose practice seeks to navigate the confluence of art, technology, and design, while while breaking down the paradigms surrounding their conventional definitions and divisions.（Excerpt from the text）