Digitized Nature
2002
FEATURED WORKS
teamLab, 2014-, Interactive Installation, Sound: Hideaki Takahashi, teamLab
The trees shine brightly. The light of each tree is autonomous, blinking as if breathing slowly.
When people pass close to the trees, the light changes color, and a tone specific to that color resonates out. The light of the tree is transmitted to the surrounding trees one by one, continuously emitting the same tone.
If light approaches from the trees in the distance, it signifies the presence of people there, making people more aware of the existence of others in the same space.
Ever Blossoming Life Waterfall - Deep in the Mountains of Shikoku
teamLab, 2016 - 2017, Digitized Nature, Sound: Hideaki Takahashi
Flowers bloom and scatter for eternity onto a powerful waterfall and the rocks, formed of a long period of time, that surround it. A seasonal year of the the flowers of this region change over time.
Flowers are born, they grow, bud, bloom, and eventually scatter, wither, and fade away. The flowers are in a continuous cycle of birth and death, repeating forever.
Life has been created on an overwhelming scale and time span over billions of years on Earth, repeating on an eternal life cycle. However, it is difficult for humans to easily perceive this.
Rocks are inorganic and non-living, over the years the natural shape of the rock is modeled by the waterfall. As a result the rock can be thought of as a sculptural block that embodies the power of life.
Flowers Bloom under the Waterfall in the Gorge - Ōboke Koboke
teamLab, 2016, Digitized Nature, Sound: Hideaki Takahashi
The world we know has been created by the powerful cycle of life, repeating endlessly on an overwhelming scale over billions of years on earth.
Water is the source of life. Flowers bloom and scatter for eternity on the surface of the water as the forcefully flowing river collides with the sides of the gorge. The flowers are born, they grow, bud, bloom, and eventually scatter, wither, and fade away. In other words, the flowers go through the cycle of birth and death eternally.
The waterfall falls over a cliff that has been formed over a long period of time by the strong flowing river that runs through the steep rock face of the gorge. The fall of the waterfall is physically calculated in relation to the actual cliff form onto which it is projected. The water is represented as a continuous body of hundreds of thousands of water particles. A computer calculates the movement and interaction of the particles to produce a simulation of water that flows in accordance with the laws of physics. Lines are drawn in relation to a selection of the particles, this collection of lines depicts a waterfall on the steep cliff of the gorge.
This artwork is in continuous change; over a period of one hour a seasonal year of flowers blossoms and scatters. Neither a prerecorded animation nor on loop, the work is rendered in real time by a computer program. Previous visual states can never be replicated, and will never reoccur.
Floating, Resonating Spheres on the Sea - Chura Sun Beach
teamLab, 2017, Interactive Digital Installation, Endless, Sound: Hideaki Takahashi
When the spheres of light are touched by a person or receive an impact, the color of their light changes. The light color resonates to the spheres around them causing those spheres to change color, and in turn those spheres resonate the color to the spheres around them, the color resonating out continuously from one sphere to another.