teamLab: Dance! Art Museum and Learn & Play! Future Park | teamLab

Name: teamLab: Dance! Art Museum and Learn & Play! Future Park
Start: 2016-12-29
End: 2017-04-09
Location: Huashan1914 Creative Park

EXPOSIÇÃO PASSADA

2016.12.29(Thu) - 2017.04.09(Sun)Huashan1914 Creative Park, Taipei

EXPOSIÇÃO PASSADA

2016.12.29(Thu) - 2017.04.09(Sun)Huashan1914 Creative Park, Taipei

teamLab: Dance! Art Exhibition, Learn & Play! Future Park

“teamLab: Dance! Art Exhibition & Learn! Future Park” is an art exhibition and Future Park for adults and children who can interaction between technology art piece and create impressive experience. This year, world famous digital art group: teamLab introduce their high quality art collections and co-creative works to Taipei’s audiences. This amazing exhibition has been attracted nearly 500,000 visitors when it first opened in Tokyo in 2015. It also been selected as Top 10 must-see art exhibitions in the world by “designboom”. One of teamLab’s digital artwork “Immersive installations” in Japan pavilion was awarded the BEST PRESENTATION at Expo Milan 2015.

The exhibition from teamLab has been traveling around the world to Singapore, United States, Thailand, South Korea and Japan. This is the first time teamLab group conduct a comprehensive exhibition of art and amusement park in Huashan 1914 Creative Park in Taipei. High popularity artwork “Crystal Universe” creates a spectacular galaxy scene with exclusive unique technology called "Interactive 4D Vision". In the future park, teamLab brings out the classic artworks, including “Sketch Aquarium”, “Sketch Town” and other phenomenal artworks which are the first time come to Taipei. In more than 2030sqm of exhibition venue and special artwork collections, teamLab creates the most fantastic digital amusement park this winter in Taipei.

Dance! Art Museum

Crystal Universe

Pointillism uses an accumulation of distinct dots of color to create a picture, here light points are used to create three-dimensional objects. This interactive artwork expresses the universe through accumulated light points.

People can use their smartphones to select elements that make up the universe by dragging them and releasing them into the The Infinite Crystal Universe. Each element of the universe sent into the work influences that of other elements and is influenced by the presence of people in the space.

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

Flowers and People, Cannot be Controlled but Live Together – A Whole Year per Hour

The seasons co-exist and change gradually across the installation space.
Flowers blossom according to the seasons, and the places where they grow gradually change.

The flowers bud, grow, and blossom before they begin to wither and their petals eventually scatter, repeating the cycle of life and death in perpetuity. If a person stays still, the flowers surrounding them grow and bloom more abundantly than usual, but if people touch or step on the flowers, they shed their petals, wither, and die all at once. Sometimes the flowers cross the boundaries of other works and bloom in other spaces, but scatter or die due to the influence of other works.

The artwork is not a pre-recorded image that is played back; it is created by a computer program that continuously renders the work in real time. The interaction between people and the installation causes continuous change in the artwork, so previous visual states can never be replicated, and will never reoccur. The picture at this moment can never be seen again.

In spring in the Kunisaki Peninsula, there are many cherry blossoms in the mountains and canola blossoms at their base. A visit to this region led teamLab to wonder how much of these flowers were planted by people and how much of them were native to the environment. It was a place of great serenity and contentment. The expansive body of flowers is an ecosystem influenced by human intervention, and the boundary between the work of nature and the work of humans is unclear. Rather than nature and humans being in conflict, a healthy ecosystem is one that includes people. In the past, people understood that they could not grasp nature in its entirety, and that it is not possible to control nature. People lived more closely aligned to the rule of nature, which perhaps created a comfortable natural environment. We believe that these valleys hold faint traces of this premodern relationship with nature that once existed, and we hope to explore a form of human intervention based on the premise that nature cannot be controlled.

Flutter of Butterflies Beyond Borders

When no one is in the Butterfly House space, it is completely dark and nothing exists. When people enter the Butterfly House space, butterflies emerge from their bodies, and flutter from their feet to the floor. If people touch the butterflies they scatter.
The butterflies fly into the displays or out of the space, transcend the boundaries of other works, and fly into the other artworks. Then, when they enter another space they continue as a new artwork. The butterflies fly seamlessly between other works, blurring the boundaries between them.In the Borderless World, the butterflies are all created solely by the presence of people in the Butterfly House. If the number of butterflies that die when people touch them is more than the number people create, this artwork will cease to exist.When this artwork disappears, butterflies no longer enter the other spaces, and the artworks of butterflies in each space will no longer appear.

Ever Blossoming Life II – A Whole Year per Hour, Dark

This artwork is in a state of continuous change. Aligned to the passing hours of the day and over a period of one year, a seasonal year of flowers blossom and scatter. Flowers are born, grow and blossom in profusion before the petals scatter and the flowers wither and fade away. The cycle of birth and death repeats itself, continuing for eternity. The artwork is created in two versions: one with “A Whole Year per Hour, Dark” and another with “A Whole Year per Year, Dark”.

Cold Life

A calligraphic series of brush strokes modeled in virtual 3-D space forms the character 生 (Japanese/Chinese for life) which transforms into a tree. As time passes, various life forms begin to grow from within the tree.
 
This artwork was created by peeling away the surface of the artwork Life Survives by the Power of Life, 2011.
 
In computer graphics, and similarly in this digital work, wireframe models created with high levels of data are rendered as 3-D objects. When the surfaces of these computer-generated images are peeled away, their underlying mesh-like structures are revealed. Expressed by the intricacy of this work, teamLab exemplifies 3-D rendering in its stripped-down state while maintaining a highly complex and elaborate construction.

Nature brings us both blessings and disaster, and with the progress of civilization there are benefits and negative implications; nature and civilization are always connected. There is no absolute evil or true beauty. There is no easy way to understand, no simple way to arrange our feelings and our sensitivities. We must face every situation as it comes, to not despair, to face forward, and to go on with life.

teamLab has been working on the Spatial Calligraphy series since the collective formed. Spatial Calligraphy offers a contemporary interpretation of traditional Japanese sho (calligraphy) in an abstract space. It reconstructs Japanese sho in three-dimensional space and expresses the depth, speed, and power of the brushstroke. Butterflies, birds, animals, plants, and flowers appear from the calligraphy expressing the passing of the seasons. According to Zen Buddhist writing, “In all living things Buddha nature dwells.” All things are impermanent and the natural appearance of things is the Buddha nature. What we put into shape is that which we, the living, think is the heart of life.

Ondas Negras / Black Waves

All oceans are connected to each other, and so are all the waves in this world.

In classical East Asian art, waves are often expressed using a combination of lines. These waves created by lines allow us to realize that each wave is one part of a larger flow, and conveys life as though the waves are a living entity.

When the waves rise, we can feel a powerful breath of life, as though life is blooming. It feels as though each wave has a life of its own. But when the waves collapse and disappear, we realize, with a sense of fragility, that they were a part of the ocean. And that ocean is connected to all of the other oceans. In other words, all of the waves in the world are connected to each other.
The waves seem alive because life is like a rising wave. It is a miraculous phenomenon that continuously emerges from a single, continuous ocean.

The waves are expressed through a continuous body of countless water particles. The interactions of particles are calculated, and then the movement of water is simulated in three-dimensional space. Lines are created along the trajectories of the water particles, and drawn on the surface layer of the three-dimensional waves.

The lines are created with what teamLab refers to as Ultrasubjective Space. In contrast to space that is created through, or cut out by, lenses and perspective, Ultrasubjective Space does not fix the viewer’s viewpoint and in turn frees the body. The wall that the waves are seen on does not become a boundary between the viewer and the artwork, and the artwork space is continuous with the space of the viewer’s body.

Nirvana

Itō Jakuchū (1716–1800) was an early modern Japanese painter who was active in Kyoto in the mid-Edo period. Jakuchū has left us with a unique style of painting in which the surface is made up of a grid of tens of thousands of squares that are individually colored. Nirvana was inspired by the screen paintings Birds, Animals, and Flowering Plants and Trees, Flowers, Birds and Animals.

Jakuchū’s square paintings remind us of computer-generated pixel art. It has been proposed that Jakuchū’s squares pictures were inspired by industrial production constraints in the designs of Nishijin (traditional high-quality silk fabric that is woven in Nishijin, Kyoto). Pixel art was also born from functional limitations. Those functional limitations no longer exist but pixel art is still a very popular form of expression. This is perhaps why we feel an intuitive digital sense to Jakuchū's square works. The colors of Jakuchū’s work are the result of the optical phenomena of visual mixing of color combinations within the squares. It appears as if Jakuchū understood optical mixing of colors at a time before Impressionism and Pointillism.

This artwork was created in a virtual 3-D space in which 3-D animals move. The space was then converted into what teamLab calls ultrasubjective space. Then,  the color in the 3-D space is split by the color pattern of the squares. For example, if the pattern of a square is colored in red and blue, that part corresponds to purple in the three dimensional space.

The squares of the screen are fixed while the space continues to move, and thus the color inside the squares is on a different time axis to the space. Seen as a whole from a distance, brilliantly shining  colors occur, and the world of plants and animals in the space will move at a slow time axis. When viewed up close, the colors divided by the finely drawn patterns of each square will change on a rapid time axis. Two time axes co-exist in this work.

In addition, parts of the image squares are filled in with the most frequent color in the squares, forming an abstract world. The plants and animals move in space, but are abstracted by the fixed squares on-screen, creating a new visual expression through pixel art.

Crows are chased and the chasing crows are destined to be chased as well, Division in Perspective – Light in Dark

A digital installation in three dimensions on seven screens.

This artwork explores Japanese spatial awareness. It exists in a three-dimensional space that we call ultrasubjective space. The Japanese mythical bird Yatagarasu,* rendered in light, flies around the space leaving trails of light in its path, creating spatial calligraphy. As the crows chase and are chased by one another through the air, they turn into flowers and eventually scatter.

The Itano Circus is a unique technique pioneered by creator animator Ichiro Itano. In this technique, a screen is packed to capacity with swarms of flying missiles that are drawn in a completely distorted perspective. These distortions give the audience a stronger sense of dynamic movement and impact. Through ultra-high-speed camera work and staging that envelops the viewer’s perspective, this technique creates an overwhelmingly beautiful image.

In this digital artwork, an homage to the Itano Circus, teamLab has recreated this distortion of space formerly used in 2-D animation in a 3-D space. This is an exploration of 1) what sort of logical structure of perception constitutes this distortion of space pioneered by Japan’s animators, and 2) the hypothesis that this is in line with the continuous tradition of Japanese spatial perception. By recreating this distortion in a 3-D space, teamLab widens the perspectival viewpoint. This work is also an experiment in visual experience, as it divides the viewer’s perspective while deploying divided perspective into 3-D space.

*Yatagarasu, the three-legged crow, is a creature found in Japanese mythology. It is believed to represent the sun and the will of Heaven.

Learn & Play! Future Park

Graffiti Nature

Graffiti Nature is created by you. The more animals and flowers that you draw and color, the more this nature world expands around you. Your drawing is somewhere in Graffiti Nature. Can you find it? Animals are eaten by other animals, but if they do not eat they will die and disappear. When the animals that you draw eat other animals, their numbers increase. Butterflies increase in places where there are flowers. All are part of one ecosystem. If you step on Crocodiles too much they will die. If you stand still flowers will blossom around you. If you walk around, the flowers will scatter.Search for your animals, and whilst making the flowers bloom, explore the world that everyone has created.

Sketch Aquarium

All the various fish drawn by everyone swim around in this aquarium.

Color in a fish on the paper provided, and see the picture you have drawn come to life, swimming out into the massive aquarium in front of you together with the fish drawn by other people. If you touch the swimming fish, they will swim away. You can also feed the fish by touching the food bags.

Sketch Town

Sketch Town is a town that grows and evolves according to the pictures drawn by children.

After the 2-D drawings of the cars, buildings, UFOs, and spaceships are completed, they are scanned, become 3-D and enter a virtual 3-D townscape. Every component of the town has a role to play; for example, the fire trucks and cranes serve to protect the town. Children can interact with the final townscape by touching individual components to alter their behavior.

Sketch Town Papercraft

The pictures people draw in Sketch Town can be made into an original paper craft.

Each of the pictures drawn in Sketch Town, such as cars and buildings, is converted into a plan for a paper craft model. By assembling along the plan guidelines, you can create a one-of-a-kind paper craft.

Light Ball Orchestra

Rolling a light-ball changes its color and sound. Combined, the light-balls form an orchestra! 
The overhead light-balls communicate with those on the floor, as one is touched,  the surrounding balls will be affected, changing the color of the entire space. Roll the light-ball in front of you and it will change color and release sound. In the same space participants use their bodies, interacting with the different-sized light-balls to change the color of the space and to make music.

Hopscotch for Geniuses

This is a game of hopscotch where you hop on the circles, triangles, and squares in the water.

When you land on the same shape several times in a row, a fish, butterfly, or bird is born. If you jump on many of the same shapes in a row, even more animals will appear.

And, if you consecutively jump on the same-colored shapes, that color will spread throughout the space.

If you touch the fish, butterflies, or birds that move along the walls, the animals will dissolve into the world.

Story of the Time when Gods were Everywhere

When people touch the characters that represent mountains, trees, birds, etc., that are projected on the wall, the world of the characters appears and a story is born. The objects that emerge from the symbols influence one another and are influenced by the actions of other people. For example, a bird lands on a tree, a sheep runs away from a dog, and a sheep dances as a child approaches it.

A Table where Little People Live

This is a table where little people live.
If you put something, such as your hand, on top of the table, the little people will jump on to it. Depending on the shape of the objects you place on the table, the little people will slide, jump, or climb. Place many objects on the table and the little people will play with delight.

Connecting! Block Town

Create a city where trains, cars, boat and planes run, by placing connecting blocks on the table.The same type of blocks can connect to each other, allowing vehicles to run along roads and train tracks created by the connections. The vehicles will evolve as you connect more blocks. What you see in the air is the view from a helicopter. You can change the helicopter's flight route with the yellow cube connecting blocks.

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Detalhes do local

teamLab: Dance! Art Museum and Learn & Play! Future Park

Duração

2016.12.29(Thu) - 2017.04.09(Sun)

Horário

10:00-18:00 (No entry after 17:00)

Fechado

2017.1.27

Official Projection Partner

Panasonic

Contact

02-66169928 (office hours: 11:00-17:30)

Notices

To enhance your viewing pleasure:
(1) Please refrain from eating and drinking, smoking, or improperly disposing of wastepaper or other articles.
(2) Do not take any dangerous items into the exhibition areas.

For any ticket-related question, please inquire staff in box office or contact 02-66169928 for more information.

Acesso

Local

Huashan1914, Creative Park
No. 1, Section 1, Bade Road, Zhongzheng District, Taipei City

Map

BY MRT

Take the MRT Bannan Line to the Zhong Xiao Xing Sheng Station and go exit one and continue to walk straight for about a block for 3-5 minutes.

BY BUS

At Zhong Xiao Elementary School station (on Zhong Xiao east road)

To eastern district of Taipei: 212、212直、232副、262、299、605、605副、605新台五、忠孝新幹線。

To Taipei Main Station: 212、212直、232副、262、299、605、605副、605新台五、忠孝新幹線、202、202區。

At Nation Audit Office Station (on Zhong Xiao east road)

To eastern district of Taipei: 205、212、220、232、232副、257、262、276、299、605、忠孝新幹線。

To Taipei Main Station: 205、212、220、232、232副、257、262、276、299、605、忠孝新幹線、202、202區、247。

At National Taipei University of Technology station (on Bade road): 205、257、276。

At Huashan Park station (on the Civic Boulevard): 669

BY CAR

The parking lot of Huashan 1914 creative park which is located at Zhong Xiao east road opens 24 hours.

Motorcycle: NTD 25 per hour

Car: NTD 40 per hour on weekdays, NTD 60 per hour on weekend; NTD 280 per day, NTD 540 per day.

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NOTÍCIAS

Featured on CITIES & LIGHTING, May, 2017

Wonders of light in a crystal universe

An interactive light art installation, Crystal Universe by Japanese digital artists, TeamLab, has been making waves in Taipei, Taiwan this spring.（Excerpt from the text）

Featured on China Times, Apr 6, 2017

teamLab展台灣唯一場 20萬人瘋朝聖

在台北造成一股打卡熱潮的「teamLab: 舞動！藝術展 & 學習！未來の遊園地」，距離閉展倒數最後3天，新奇的數位藝術題材及互動特色，吸引年輕族群及親子家庭到場排隊體驗teamLab的視覺魔法，隨著觀展民眾的分享推薦，更讓觀展人數在今日突破20萬觀展人次。（Excerpt from the text）

Featured on styletc, Mar 22, 2017

想看看唯美宇宙快把握最後兩周來teamLab：舞動！藝術展

來自日本的數位藝術團隊teamLab魅力驚人，開展不到1個月就突破10萬觀展人次，其實就是利用光影世界，營造出不同數位作品，讓藝術更吸引人。（Excerpt from the text）

ARTISTA

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.

Organizadores

Media Sphere Communications Ltd.,
Greenland creatvie Co., Ltd.,
Huashan 1914 creative park

Co-organizadores

L'art en ciel

Patrocinadores

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