To celebrate breaking 1 million visitors at MORI Building DIGITAL ART MUSEUM: EPSON teamLab Borderless on November 28, teamLab is holding a photo exhibition at Laforet Museum Harajuku in collaboration with Mika Ninagawa from December 18 to 22.
Japanese model Tina Tamashiro takes the role of Ninagawa’s muse at this exhibition which combines the world of teamLab Borderless and Ninagawa’s photography skills. There will be 21 pieces on display at the exhibition.
You can see the photos taken by Ningawa over at the exhibition’s website. Limited copies of a special booklet entitled Mika Ninagawa @ teamLab Borderless will also be sold at the museum for ¥1,000.
Comment: Mika Ninagawa
“I looked for and chased after moments and places one after the other that looked good […] It was the same thing as I normally do while also feeling new. I take the person inside the world that teamLab has created. Like going on an adventure in a forest. Whether it’s natural, whether it’s digital.”
teamLab saw huge popularity this summer. Experience their world yourself by going to see the works of Mika Ninagawa this month.
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Mika Ninagawa @ teamLab Borderless Photo Exhibition
Event Title: Mika Ninagawa @ teamLab Borderless
Running: December 18, 2018 – Decmeber 22, 2018
Time: 11:00-21:00
Location: Laforet Museum Harajuku, Laforet Harajuku Floor 6F, 1-11-6 Jingumae, Shibuya, Tokyo
Entry: Free
Event Website: https://borderless-special-laforet.jp/
Official Twitter: @borderless_LF
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teamLab: Digitized Lakeside and Forest Digital Art Exhibition to Take Place at Metsa Village in Saitama
Metsa Village is a new facility opening by Miyazawa Lake in Hanno, Saitama Prefecture on November 9, and it's here where teamLab will hold their 'Digitized Lakeside and Forest' art exhibition from December 1, 2018 to March 3, 2019
Metsa Village is a place for people to experience the Northern European lifestyle. It's a huge area around Miyazawa Lake and Lakeside forest where time flows like Northern Europe - people can get up close to nature and enjoy seeing the beautiful lake and lush trees.
Resisting and Resonating Ovoids and Forest
teamLab, 2018, Interactive Digital Installation, Endless, Sound: Hideaki Takahashi
This exhibition is part of teamLab's 'Digitized Nature' project which says that digital art can turn nature into a form of art without harming it. Taking place at Miyazawa Lake and Lakeside Forest, the exhibition will create an interactive space where the featured works will change and manipulate from the presence of people.
Autonomous Resonating Life
teamLab, 2018, Interactive Digital Installation, Endless, Sound: Hideaki Takahashi
MORI Building DIGITAL ART MUSEUM: EPSON teamLab Borderless will open on June 21 and is co-managed by Mori Building Co., Ltd. and teamLab.
teamLab Borderless is a collection of artworks that 'form one borderless world.' The art encompasses the entire room from the ceiling to the floor, and each piece connects seamlessly to the other, creating an immersive world where time blurs.
You'll be able to create new experiences with other people by submerging yourself into world of this borderless art and exploring it with your body.
This never-before-seen new world is created in an expansive and complex three-dimensional 10,000 square meter space by 520 computers and 470 projectors.
EPSON teamLab Borderless have created 5 worlds each with their own distinct artwork. Early bird tickets are now on sale at a discounted price. Sales end on July 31. Additionally, the opening hours will be extended by one hour from June 21 to August 31.
Dive into a mesmerising 3D world and get lost amongst the borderless art.
■InformationMORI Building DIGITAL ART MUSEUM: EPSON teamLab Borderless
Address: 1-3-8 Aomi, Koto, Tokyo
Opening: June 21, 2018
Opening Hours
Monday-Thursday 11:00-19:00 (20:00)
Friday 11:00-21:00 (22:00)
Saturday 10:00-21:00 (22:00)
Sunday & National Holidays 10:00-19:00 (20:00)
*Last entries are 1 hour before closing time.
*Times listed in brackets refer to extended opening times running from June 21 to August 31.
*Business hours will defer from season to season. Check the official website for full details.
Closed: 2nd and 4th Tuesday of every month.
Early Bird Tickets (Discounted)
Sales Period: June 7, 2018-July 31, 2018
Price:
Adults, High School & College Student - ¥2,400 (*Normal price ¥3,200)
Children up to Middle School Student - ¥1,000 (*Same as normal price)
*Prices listed include tax.
*Early bird tickets admitted during the period June 21 to July 31 only.
Ticket Purchasing: https://borderless.teamlab.art/jp/
teamLab Borderless: https://www.baitoru.com/cp/teamlab-borderless/
Official Website: http://borderless.teamlab.art/jp
Teaser Trailer: https://youtu.be/y3quanO4bKw
teamLab to Bring Digital Art Exhibition to GINZA SIX Rooftop
Ultratechnologists teamLab are taking their Resonating Trees digital art masterpiece to the rooftop garden of GINZA SIX, the biggest shopping complex in Ginza. It will run from August 1 to September 2.
The theme of the work is "Digitized Nature." Taking place in a 56-meter roof garden, this digital art space combines sound and lights which change and transform as people walk by. This is the first time for this piece to be held in the city and offers people a dreamy experience with the nightscape of Ginza's streets and buildings as the backdrop.
The trees lining the garden will be individually lit up with bright and colourful lights. It will seem as if the trees are resonating with each other as they fade in and out of different colour tones. As watchers walk by, the colour tone of a tree will change and transmit to the trees next to them. The changing of colours signifies the presence of people, and in turn teamLab hopes people will become aware of the existence of other living things in the same space.
Experience the latest in cutting-edge digital art technology at GINZA SIX.
■InformationteamLab: Resonating Trees in GINZA SIX GARDEN
Location: GINZA SIX GARDEN, GINZA SIX roof
Running: August 1, 2018 - September 2, 2018 (*Shops and restaurants closed on August 27)
Time: Sunset-11:00pm
Entry: Free
Event Page: https://www.teamlab.art/jp/e/ginzasixgarden
Resonating Trees: https://www.teamlab.art/w/resonatingtreesGINZA SIX
Address: 6-10-1 Ginza, Chuo-ku, Tokyo
Opening Hours: Shops & Cafes (B2F-5F) 10:30am-8:30pm / Restaurants (6F, 13F) 11:00am-11:00pm
*Business hours different for select shops.
No Fixed Holidays.
*Shops and restaurants closed on August 27.
TEL: 03-6891-3390 (GINZA SIX Information Desk / 10:30am-8:30pm)
Website: http://ginza6.tokyo/
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teamLab Forest Fukuoka to Introduce Spring Sakura Theme for a Limited Time
Starting March 4, the permanent museum teamLab Forest Fukuoka will transform its artwork into a stunning spring theme. Guests will be able to enjoy gorgeous cherry blossoms for a limited time, and starting March 24, the Catching and Collecting Forest will also be transformed in the same way.
TeamLab’s works are created in real time by procedural generation, meaning that they are always changing and evolving. Each work changes depending on the season.
▼Starting March 4
Both Shifting Valley, Living Creatures of Flowers, Symbiotic Lives – A Whole Year per Year and Animals of Flowers, Symbiotic Lives II – A Whole Year per Year are only available to see during spring. Come and see animals made entirely of cherry blossoms as they roam through the museum!
The work titled Soft Terrain in Granular Topography shows multicolored grains of light pouring from the sky, while Flutter of Butterflies, Ephemeral Life surrounds visitors with brightly colored butterflies
▼Starting March 24
In the Catching and Collecting Forest, visitors can explore with their smartphones and catch various animals made entirely of cherry blossoms.
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teamLab Forest Fukuoka – SBI SECURITIES Co., Ltd. Venue: BOSS E･ZO FUKUOKA 5F, Next to Fukuoka PayPal Dome
Address: 2-2-6 Jigyohama, Chuo-ku, Fukuoka
Official Site: http://forest.teamlab.art
teamLab Opens Solo Exhibition at the Kumu Art Museum in Tallinn, Estonia
Art collective teamLab has opened a new solo exhibition at the Kumu Art Museum in Tallinn, Estonia. One of the largest museums in all of Scandinavia, the exhibition will run through May 7, 2023, and guests can also enjoy a large amount of Estonian art from the 18th century onward. In 2008, the Kumu Art Museum won the European Museum Forum award for the Best Museum in Europe.
teamLab - Impermanent Flowers Floating in a Continuous Sea
teamLab: Impermanent Flowers Floating in a Continuous Sea depicts flowers that are continuously growing and dying, multiplying in an eternal sea in which everything is connected. Guests can feel as though they've become one with the art as they stroll through the exhibition. Black Waves: Immersive Mass is made up of interconnected waves. Without a beginning or an end, visitors progress through the workspace until they too are drawn into the water.Waves in classical East Asian art are often represented by sets of lines, but these detailed waves are unique.
In Black Waves: Immersive Mass, flowers can be seen blooming, blossoming, and seeing the end of their lives. When people touch the flowers, they wither and die.
The flicker of flame will welcome guests to this part of the museum. Visitors can even take the work home by approaching it with the Distributed Fire app on their smartphones. When held up to another person’s smartphone, the flames will connect and grow larger.teamLab continues to find ways to connect people through modern experimental artworks. What will they create next?
Kumu Art Museum - Photo: Tõnu Tunnel. (Courtesy of the Art Museum of Estonia.)
Come dive into the world of teamLab in the frosty north!
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teamLab: Impermanent Flowers Floating in a Continuous Sea
#teamLabKumu Running: November 11, 2022 – May 7, 2023 Address: Kumu Art Museum (Weizenbergi 34 / Valge 1 10127 Tallinn) Details: https://www.teamlab.art/jp/e/kumuartmuseum/
teamLab Fukuyama Castle Light Festival Opens to Celebrate the Hiroshima Castle’s 400th Anniversary
The art collective TeamLab will hold the TeamLab Fukuyama Castle Festival of Light event at Fukuyama Castle in Hiroshima Prefecture from December 2, 2022 to January 29, 2023. The exhibition will transform the stone walls, the tower, and the outside of the iconic castle, which is currently celebrating its 400th anniversary. Light art will transform the space in different ways depending on the number of guests and the weather. In August 2022, Fukuyama Castle recieved a major restoration with iron paneling installed on the north side, the only such restorative technique used on a Japanese castle to date. As guests walk around the keep, the included musical experience will change according to your walking speed and pace.
teamLab <Castle Tower>
The stone walls of Fukuyama Castle will depict animals shaped by flowers as they continuously die and are reborn. When guests touch the flowers, they disperse; if they continue to touch and the flowers disperse too much, the animal dies and disappears.Built during the Edo period, the castle survived the Meiji Restoration but was damaged heavily in WWII.
teamLab <Animals of Flowers, Symbiotic Lives in the Stone Wall>
Ovoids made of light sit at the bottom of the castle. When pushed by a person or blown by the wind, these unique creations will change color and interact with the nearly ovoids, which will change to the same color and make a similar tone.
teamLab <Resisting and Resonating Ovoids on the Stones of Oblivion>
In the Sketch Generals section, visitors can draw historical warlords associated with Fukuyama Castle, including Katsunari Mineno, the first lord of the Fukuyama domain and builder of Fukuyama Castle, Nobunaga Oda, Hideyoshi Toyotomi, Nagamasa Kuroda, Ieyasu Tokugawa, and Masahiro Abe. When the generals are touched, famous quotes appear in speech bubbles!In addition, visitors can turn their own drawings of generals into pins that they can take home as souvenirs!
teamLab <Sketch Generals>
teamLab <Sketch Factory>
Several other works will be exhibited around the castle during the event as well. The castle tower was designated a National Treasure in the early Showa era but was destroyed by fire in an air raid during World War II. It was rebuilt in 1966. teamLab's Digitized City project has become popular across the world, allowing the art collective to utilize real-world locales to display artworks without damaging or altering the location chosen.
With its lengthy history, Fukuyama Castle is a magnificent canvas, transforming as both visitors and nature interact with the lights. People, animals, nature, and art can live side by side, without boundaries. Wouldn't you like to come to visit this winter?
Art collective TeamLab has redesigned two exhibitions at Marina Bay Sands Singapore. The world’s first permanent exhibition from the creators, Future World: Where Art Meets Science, was opened in 2016 at the Museum of Art and Science. Guests can now enjoy three new works along with the Digital Light Canvas, a huge, interactive space inviting guests to share their own pieces of art.
Drawing Flight
Visitors can immerse themselves in these impressive new works while experiencing a complex, three-dimensional world. They can also create new worlds with others!
Future World
The Drawing Flight, part of the Amusement Park of the Future series, is based on the concept of co-creation, allowing visitors to not only draw an airplane that will fly but also allowing them to operate it from a pilot's point of view using a tablet. Whether visitors draw a butterfly or a hawk, they’ll see the world from the perspective of each creature and enter a world constructed by the creature's unique perceptions.
Aerial Climbing through a Flock of Colored Birds
In Aerial Climbing through a Flock of Colored Birds, guests are asked to perceive the world with their entire bodies. Visitors cross a space with sticks floating three-dimensionally in the air.
Autonomous Abstraction, Continuous Phenomena from the Universe to the Self
Autonomous Abstraction, Continuous Phenomena from the Universe to the Self offers a new and abstract concept. As people touch the dots, the rhythm of the dots flickers and their hue changes and disintegrates. The picture will then change dramatically, and despite these changes, the beauty remains.
Digital Light Canvas
Graffiti Nature - Red List Digital Light Canvas
Digital Light Canvas is a space consisting of a 15-meter-diameter circular link of light and a 20-meter-high cylinder of light made up of a collection of light dots. Team Lab's interactive artwork, which changes depending on how many people are around, is on permanent display.
Art collective teamLab will exhibit its first NFT work, Matter is Void - Water, at teamLab Planets TOKYO DMM in Toyosu, Tokyo starting November 1, 2022. This is the collective’s first NFT work to be released through Pace Gallery’s NFT platform Pace Verso, and those interested can purchase one starting October 19 at 11:00 EST. Outside of Japan, the work will be exhibited for the first time in Paris at Paris+ par Art Basel, the world's largest contemporary art fair, and on a giant billboard in Times Square in New York City. At teamLab Planets in Tokyo, the exhibit will be housed in an incredible immersive space. The Matter is Void NFT project includes seven NFT works. One of these, titled Matter is Void - Water, will be on display at teamLab Planets.“Although only one of the seven NFTs will be for sale, anyone can download and own the overall work itself, whether or not they own the NFT. In other words, the uniqueness of the work is not conferred by the NFT, and nothing can distinguish the downloaded work. Regardless of whether a person owns the NFT or not, it is all still authentic.teamLab’s work is titled Matter is Void. However, owners of the NFT can change this title, and this change will be reflected in all works downloaded and owned by people around the world. Even the text on exhibition at teamLab Planets will be rewritten!The value of the work change depending on the text added by NFT owners. If the words are valuable, more people will want to own it–if the words are nonsense or without value, no one will want it on display. This will keep people from writing something offensive or useless. Everyone will want to write something that will make the value increase. It’s all decided by the owners!Also, even if the NFT owner reverts back to "Matter is Void" after rewriting it in other words, the words "Matter is Void" will be written with different wording.Once the NFT is altered, it will never go back to the way it was. That makes this a more novel and exciting experience!”
Starting September 23, teamLab Forest Fukuoka will be transformed for the autumn season! The interactive digital art installation will feature animals made entirely of fall foliage, and guests can enjoy red and orange leaves fluttering through the one-of-a-kind 3D world. teamLab’s prolific works are known for changing with the seasons. This autumn version of the popular exhibition will only be on display for a limited time, and visitors can use their smartphones in the Catching and Collecting Forest to catch and collect the animals on display! The forest and ocean scenery will change as you explore, and starting on September 23, the trees will begin to show off beautiful autumn colors.In the Forest of Movement, guests can enter the ‘Shifting Valley, Living Creatures of Flowers, Symbiotic Lives’ exhibit, where creatures made of autumn flowers exist in a three-dimensional space. The space is meant to make guests think about the cycle of death and rebirth, as flowers blossom and die each and every year. The ‘Soft Terrain and Granular Topography’ will display tons of colorful grains raining down on visitors, while the ‘Flutter of Butterflies, Ephemeral Life’ will change the usual butterflies to have autumn colors as they fly around guests. This is a kind of autumn scenery you can’t see anywhere else, so be sure to come to Fukuoka during this beautiful season!
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teamLab Forest Fukuoka – SBI Securities Co., Ltd.
Venue: BOSS E・ZO FUKUOKA 5F (Next to Fukuoka PayPay Dome)