Crows are Chased and the Chasing Crows are Destined to be Chased as well, Transcending Space

teamLab, 2017, Interactive Digital Installation, 4min 20sec, Sound: Hideaki Takahashi

Crows are Chased and the Chasing Crows are Destined to be Chased as well, Transcending Space

teamLab, 2017, Interactive Digital Installation, 4min 20sec, Sound: Hideaki Takahashi

This is an interactive digital installation in which viewers can walk around freely in a space that completely surrounds them with projections on all sides.


Flocks of crows rendered in light fly around the space leaving trails in their wake and forming Spatial Calligraphy. The chasing crows are eventually chased themselves, and form flowers when they crash into each other, scattering their petals.

Although the crows usually avoid crashing into people in the space, when they happen to do so, they similarly form flowers, scattering their petals.


When you stand near a certain space designated within the artwork, the boundary between the wall and the floor disappears and the real space dissolves. Eventually you become immersed in the artwork world and the lines drawn by the trails of the crows appear three dimensional in the space.


The installation is rendered in real time by a computer program, it is neither a prerecorded animation nor on loop.The installation as a whole is in constant change, previous states will never be repeated and can never be seen again.