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Featured on HYPEBEAST, 2020/12/03

teamLab Will Light up Japan's Kairakuen Garden With Luminous Installations

Renowned digital and experiential art collective teamLab recently announced its plans to take over Japan’s historic Kairakuen Garden as part of a large-scale outdoor art project. The garden and its 3,000 plum blossom trees will be transformed into an interactive art space that responds to the presence of visitors. With this project, teamLab continues its exploration of how nature can become art. “The concept of the project is that non-material digital technology can turn nature into art without harming it,” said the collective in a statement. (Excerpt from the text)

Featured on Lonely Planet, 2020/12/02

Ancient Japanese garden turns into living art with kaleidoscopic exhibit

Digital art collective teamLab has unveiled an incredible new exhibition that sees Kairakuen Garden in Mito, Ibaraki Prefecture being transformed into a psychedelic, kaleidoscopic open-air art exhibition. The interactive display features 3000 plum blossom trees, all of which are transformed into living artwork, thanks to ground-breaking technology. (Excerpt from the text)

Featured on Museum Week MAGAZINE, 2020/12/02

5 QUESTIONS TO THE ART COLLECTIVE TEAMLAB

teamLab (f. 2001) is an international art collective, an interdisciplinary group of various specialists such as artists, programmers, engineers, CG animators, mathematicians and architects whose collaborative practice seeks to navigate the confluence of art, science, technology, and the natural world. teamLab was created to be a “laboratory to experiment in collaborative creation”, i.e. “teamLab”. teamLab’s interest is to create new experiences through art, and through such experiences, we want to explore what the world is for humans. (Excerpt from the text)

Featured on YONSEI Annals, 2020/11/30

"teamLab: LIFE"ーReturning to our Roots

TODAY, ART exhibitions are becoming more interactive and digital than they have ever been. We are now faced with installations that aren’t just encased in a frame on the wall, but are expanding across all four walls and even the floor. With the projected images constantly changing from the interaction between people and the artwork, viewers can use their senses of sight, hearing, and touch to experience the artwork. teamLab, an international art collective* since 2001, is an interdisciplinary group of specialists that aims to discover the relationship between the self and our natural world. (Excerpt from the text)

Featured on ARCHISCOPIE, Automne 2020

Quand l’immersif fabrique un climat

Dopés par la vogue de l’immersif qui déferle sur les lieux d’exposition, les architectes inventent des univers clos qui sont autant de climats. Des sphères protectrices à la scénographie du nuage conçu par Diller+Scofidio sur un lac helvétique en passant par les dômes géodésiques d’un Buckminster Fuller, les bâtiments s’échappent du monde pour mieux le récréer et le démultiplier. Ambiances. (extrait du texte)

Featured on Florida Daily Post, 2020/10/26

Superblue: Large-scale experiential art coming to Miami

With the rise in popularity of art that is immersive and interactive and the success of Infinity rooms, Miami is set to be home to the world’s first venue that brings top artists’ work to walk-in life. Launching December 22, Superblue promises a dynamic showcase of large-scale experiential artworks, from newly-created works to iconic installations. (Excerpt from the text)

Featured on HYPEBEAST, 2020/10/19

teamLab Permanently Installs Real-Time Artwork of Flowers in NYC

As they’re busy preparing for their immersive installations at the emerging Superblue Miami Experiential Art Space, the talented troupe of new media artists at teamLab have mounted a new permanent public artwork in New York City’s One Vanderbilt. The work entitled Continuous Life and Death at the Now of Eternity II, Grand Central Terminal features striking visuals of flowers that “are born, bloom, wither, and die all with the flow of real time,” described teamLab in a statement. (Excerpt from the text)

Featured on soompi, 2020/10/15

Watch: Kim Jung Hyun Gets Dressed Up In Character To Reunite With “Crash Landing On You” Co-Star Seo Ji Hye

Kim Jung Hyun reunited with his “Crash Landing on You” co-star Seo Ji Hye! The actor’s agency recently shared a vlog on YouTube in which he visited the exhibit “teamLab: LIFE” after being invited by Seo Ji Hye. Kim Jung Hyun got dressed up like his “Crash Landing on You” character Gu Seung Jun for his reunion with Seo Ji Hye, who played Seo Dan in the show. He even bumped into the drama’s director Lee Jung Hyo on the way in. (Excerpt from the text)