Aomori Museum of Art | teamLab

This work is both somewhere in time and here and now.

The world of the artwork changes with the real time of its location. Morning arrives in the artwork with the sunrise in the real world, and when the sun sets, evening begins. If it rains in the real world of the work’s location, it rains in the world of the artwork, and the flora that grow in the artwork change every day with each passing season.
The people’s lives also change continuously depending on the time of day and weather of the real world, and the festivals and events that are celebrated change with the seasons. Various stories take place every day, and the lives of people continue eternally.

The actions of viewers influence the world of the artwork. The people in the artwork respond when a viewer touches them, but if the interaction is limited, they return to their daily lives.
If the interaction is continuous, however, fights break out amongst the people in the artwork that are near to each other, leading to deaths. The fighting spreads throughout the city, which becomes engulfed in flames that last for over a year. As the city burns to the ground, the people in the artwork eventually die out.

In the ruined city where not a single person remains, the seasons still pass and the sun rises and sets with the time of the real world. After a few months, new flora begin to grow in the burnt ruins of the city.
The flora grow, bloom, and scatter repeatedly, changing daily with the real passage of time. The flowers and plants grow deeply over the course of a long period, and the flowers change throughout every year, continuing in perpetuity.

Once the world of this artwork begins to burn, the world from before can never be returned to.
The people who interact with the artwork cause this outcome.

This is a window into the universe where little people live.
You can create a picture by drawing lines with a light pen or creating shapes with a light stamp. Each line has a special power depending on its color, and influences the little people’s world. The shapes created by the light stamps appear in the little people’s world and start to move.
Yellow lines make the little people bounce and fly.Blue lines speed up the little people, making them run faster.Pink lines make the little people bounce like on a rubber band, and the reverberations are transferred along the line.Purple lines have gravity and attract the little people to them.Green lines form shapes and they start to move.
Draw a big picture and try lots of stamps together with those around you. Create a new world in the little people’s universe, give them various powers and watch them play even more energetically.

불꽃은, 검고 절대적인 존재에 따라 모양이 변화해간다.

불꽃은 연소하며 발생하는 빛과 열 현상이며, 흐름 속에 있는 기화된 물질이나 분해된 물질이기도 하며, 현상과 물질의 사이를 볼 때의 감각적인 경험이다.사람들은 감각적인 경험인 불을 하나의 물체처럼 인식하고 때로는 이를 통해 생명을 느낀다.

연소하는 기체의 흐름에 따라 공간상에 선을 그리고, 그 선의 입체적인 집합으로 불꽃을 만들어 teamLab이 생각하는 ‘초주관 공간’에 의해 평면화하여 불꽃을 그린다.

teamLab은 ‘Distributed Art’라는 개념을 모색하고 있다.
스마트폰 애플리케이션 ‘Distributed Fire’을 표시한 채로, ‘하늘에서 흩뿌리는 불티의 우주’의 불꽃에 다가가면 스마트폰에 불꽃이 생겨, 작품을 가지고 돌아갈 수 있다. 그 불꽃을 다른 사람의 스마트폰에 가까이하면 불꽃은 공유된다. 불꽃을 누군가에게 공유하고, 그 불꽃이 또 다른 사람들에게 전달되어 가며 불꽃은 세계로 퍼져나간다. 퍼져나가는 불꽃의 무리는 불꽃의 지도를 그려나간다.

‘Distributed Art’에서 어떤 작품은 스스로를 복제하고 어떤 작품은 그 일부를 사람들에게 나눠진다. 사람들의 손에 들어간 작품은 다시 스스로를 복제하고 사람들이 능동적으로 분산해나간다. 작품은 사람들의 네트워크상에 분산되어 존재하는 분권형 작품이 될 것이다. 작품은 네트워크상에 존재할 때 원본이 소멸되어도 계속해서 존재한다.