Light Sculpture - Point
2013
Light Sculpture - Point is an attempt to expand the structure of pointillist painting from two-dimensional paintings into light sculptures in three-dimensional space.
In pointillist painting, distinct dots form a single image through optical color mixing. In Light Sculpture - Point, these points are expanded from a two-dimensional plane into three-dimensional space, using an accumulation of light points to create a sculptural body. The light points become the structural elements of the sculpture that emerges in the space.
A sculpture made of light is not a fixed physical object. It has no material surface boundary, and the sculptures overlap each other. Furthermore, light sculptures are born through the actions of people.
The artwork space is not completed in advance. As people create light sculptures, which come together, overlap, influence each other, disappear, and are born again, the artwork space itself continues to be created. Viewers do not look at this group of sculptures from the outside. They enter inside the sculptures and bodily experience the continuously created group of sculptures.
Light Sculpture - Point is an attempt to expand sculpture from a fixed physical object into a sculptural space without boundaries that continues to be created in relation to the body, other people, time, and other light sculptures.
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teamLab, 2018, Interactive Installation, Endless, Sound: teamLab
Pointillism uses an accumulation of distinct dots of color to create a picture. Here, light points are used to create three-dimensional objects. The light sculpture extends infinitely in all directions.
People use their smartphones to select stars to throw into The Infinite Crystal Universe. These stars are reborn in three dimensions, creating the artwork. The presence of people and their location within the work affect these three-dimensional stars, which in turn influence and are influenced by other stars in the space.
This artwork is forever evolving, changing from moment to moment due to the people in the space.
teamLab, 2013-, Interactive Installation of Light Sculpture, LED, Endless, Sound: Hideaki Takahashi
teamLab, 2017, Interactive Digital Installation + Light Sculpture, Endless, H: 19800 mm W: 15000 mm D: 15000 mm, Sound: Hideaki Takahashi
A flock of birds fly through the cylinder in the air. Inside the rink, thousands of fish swim and react to the movement of people on the rink, as well as the movement of the birds above. Each person on the rink has a colour, and the nearby fish receive that colour.
The movement of thousands of fish and birds is beautiful and mysterious, like a single giant life form. The flock has neither a leader nor mutual consensus, but moves on the simple basis of; if my neighbour moves, then I move too. The biological mechanism that causes flocks of hundreds of fish and birds to move at the same time is enigmatic. It seems there is a universal principle that humans do not understand. Likewise, the coloring of the flock is not predetermined. Influenced by the presence of people, the space becomes a complex and beautiful coloration. This coloration is created by the movement of each fish and bird obeying some kind of primitive rule.
The work is rendered in real time by a computer program, it is neither a prerecorded animation nor imagery on loop.The work as a whole is in constant change; previous states will never be repeated and can never be seen again.
teamLab, 2016, from the series <span style="font-style: italic">teamLab Crystal Tree</span>, 2013-, Interactive Installation, Endless, Sound: Hideaki Takahashi
When people release a flame from their smartphones, the flames in the space increase in intensity.
Flames are a phenomenon of light and heat generated by combustion, not a substance, but our sensory experience when we see a chemical reaction called combustion. People perceive the flame, a sensory experience, as if it were an object, and sometimes feel life in it.
Flames often appear to have a hierarchy of colors from their outside to the center: red on the outside, strong bright white on the inside, and dark in the center. In the case of a raw egg, the outer shell is white, the interior is transparent, and the center is yellow, but because it is a three-dimensional object, only the white shell is visible from the outside. Unlike an egg, the flame is a three-dimensional object made of light, and the strong bright white inside is still white when mixed with the red outside. Therefore, the flame, which is a three-dimensional object, appears as if it were a flat painting with a color hierarchy, no matter where you look at it.
By creating a three-dimensional flame with a collection of points of light, the three-dimensional flame sculpture moves back and forth between three and two dimensions.
teamLab, 2015, Interactive Installation, Endless, Sound: teamLab
Pointillism uses an accumulation of distinct dots of color to create a picture. Here, light points are used to create three-dimensional objects.
People use their smartphones to select stars to throw into the Crystal Universe. These stars are reborn in three dimensions, creating the artwork. The presence of people and their location within the work affect these three-dimensional stars, which in turn influence and are influenced by other stars in the space.
This artwork is forever evolving, changing from moment to moment due to the people in the space.