teamLab: Digitized Fukuyama Castle | teamLab

Fukuyama Castle was built in 1622, at the beginning of the Edo period when peace was restored, and was the last large-scale castle built at the time. During the Meiji era (1868 - 1912), Fukuyama Castle managed to avoid the castle demolition movement promulgated by the government, and its castle tower was designated a National Treasure. However, it burned down due to the air raids of the Second World War, and was reconstructed in 1966, along with the bathhouse and Tsukimi Yagura (a two-story turret) located within the walls of the castle grounds. In August 2022, the iron paneling, which is said to be the only one of its kind in Japan, was restored on the northern side of the castle in time for Fukuyama Castle’s 400th anniversary.

This exhibition is a part of teamLab’s Digitized City art project, in which teamLab explores how non-material digital technology can turn a city and its buildings into art without physically altering it.

teamLab: Digitized Fukuyama Castle will transform the grounds and historic castle of Fukuyama into an art space that transforms interactively. The artworks are influenced by the wind and rain, as well as by the behavior of people, making nature and the people become a part of the artworks, and a part of the long continuity of time.

The artworks, people, and nature; the self and others; the past and the present; all form a continuity without boundaries.