Tea in Spontaneous Order - Dynamic Steady State Color

teamLab, 2021, Interactive Installation, Endless, Sound: teamLab

Tea in Spontaneous Order - Dynamic Steady State Color

teamLab, 2021, Interactive Installation, Endless, Sound: teamLab

When a cup of tea is made, Tea in Spontaneous Order glows and produces a tone with its own rhythm.

Tea in Spontaneous Order interacts with nearby Tea in Spontaneous Order and the Floating Lamps in Spontaneous Order, causing a spontaneous order phenomenon, in which the flickering rhythms converge.

The artwork is born when the tea is made, and disappears when the tea is drunk.

The color of the tea as a whole does not change; that is, when viewed from a distance, it remains the same color, but inside the tea the color is constantly changing, and this color has a time structure.

Through simple local interactions between Tea in Spontaneous Order and the nearby Tea in Spontaneous Order and Floating Lamps in Spontaneous Order, a time structure is created throughout the entire space of the artwork. Drink part of the order that has been formed.

A spontaneous order phenomenon occurs when different rhythms influence each other and become aligned. Examples include when the pendulums of two clocks gradually begin to swing together, when many fireflies gather in one tree and all start flashing at the same time, creating a larger light phenomenon, or when the cells that make up the heart synchronize and tremble simultaneously to create the beating of the heart. The phenomenon of self-organization is the creation of a large structure with order resulting from the autonomous behavior of each individual, even though each individual does not have the ability to observe the whole. This can also be called a self-organization phenomenon.

It is believed that entropy (a measurement of the lack of order in a system) in the universe will steadily increase (the law of increasing entropy) and that entities with form eventually collapse. However, the reason why the universe, life, nature, and society are able to exist in spite of this may be because order is born by itself through the common phenomenon of self-organization in the midst of disorder. In other words, the universe and our own existence are a continuous order created by the same phenomenon.