teamLab: Existence in an Infinite Continuity | teamLab

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teamLab은 ‘Matter is Void’를 통해 소유란 무엇인지 모색한다.

이 작품은 NFT 작품이다. 이 작품의 NFT는 하나뿐이지만 NFT이기 때문에 작품은 유일하지 않다. 작품 자체는 누구나 다운로드하여 소유할 수 있다. 즉 NFT의 소유 여부와는 관계없이 다운로드된 작품은 구별할 수 없으며 모두 진품이다.

작품에는 “Matter is Void”라는 teamLab이 적은 문구가 적혀있다. 그러나 작품의 NFT 소유자는 작품 내의 문구를 자유롭게 변경할 수 있다. NFT 소유자가 문구를 변경하면 전 세계에 퍼져있는 작품의 문구 또한 바뀐다.

그리고 NFT 소유자의 문구에 따라 작품의 가치가 변화할 뿐만 아니라, 그 문구에 가치가 있다면 작품을 소유하는 사람도 늘고, 문구에 가치가 없다면 작품을 다운로드하는 사람도 없어질 것이다. 많은 사람이 보는 작품을 변경하는 것은 가치가 높겠으나, 아무도 보지 않는 작품의 문구를 바꾸는 것은 가치가 낮을것이다. 즉 NFT 소유자가 쓰는 문구에 따라 이 작품의 가치도 변해갈 것이다.

또 NFT 소유자가 변경했던 문구를 다시 “Matter is Void”로 되돌리면 다른 형태의 문자로 표현된다. 즉 처음의 “Matter is Void”는 한번 변경한 후에는 다시는 같은 형태로 돌아오지 않는다.


문자는 공전과 자전을 반복한다. 계속하여 회전하는 문자는 각도에 따라 인식할 수 있거나 전체의 의미를 인식할 수 있는 순간도 있지만, 시간이 지나면 다시 문자로 인식할 수 없는 의미가 없는 것이 된다. 공전하는 문자는 시각적으로는 좌회전과 우회전이 동등하여, 어느 한쪽의 회전을 의식하느냐에 따라 좌회전이기도 하며 우회전이 되기도 한다.

Multiple seasons exist simultaneously, changing gradually across the installation space. The seasonal flowers repeat the cycle of life and death in perpetuity, and the places where they grow change. When people touch the flowers, the petals scatter, and when they keep their hands still, more flowers begin to grow.
The world of the artwork changes with the real flow of time of its location. The artwork grows brighter as the sun rises and darker when the sun sets. 
The time experienced by the viewer’s body, the time of the location, and the time of the flower's repeating the cycle of life and death, all intersect and overlap, whilst remaining connected to the body, the place, and the world of the artwork. In the artwork space different times and spaces overlap.
The artwork is not a pre-recorded image that is played back; it is created by a computer program that continuously renders the work in real time. The interaction between people and the installation causes continuous change in the artwork, so previous visual states can never be replicated, and will never reoccur. The picture at this moment can never be seen again.

The contours of life’s existence are not the surface boundary of the body, but something ambiguous that includes the environment that is continuous with it.
As long as people live, they dissipate energy and affect the environment, such as the flow of air.
In this artwork, the existence of a person is depicted through the energy dissipated by people into the world for as long as they live.

Being consists of the mind, the body, and the environment that is continuous with them.

Objects like stones and man-made creations so far have maintained a stable structure on their own. But life is different. Whereas a stone can continue to exist in a closed box, sealed off from the outside world, life would cease to exist.

Life is like a vortex created in the ocean. A vortex forms and exists in a flow of matter, and the boundaries of its existence are ambiguous.  

Although a vortex is steady, it is constantly moving and swelling like a powerful life-form. The vortex cannot maintain a stable structure on its own; rather, it is created and sustained by water that continuously flows inwards and outwards.

The same is true of life. It consumes external matter and energy as food and discharges it, sustaining its ordered structure as the energy dissipates. In other words, life does not exist by itself. It is the environment that is continuous with it that maintains the structure of life.

Life is a miraculous phenomenon that emerges from a flow in an open world. Like an ocean vortex, it is an existence with ambiguous boundaries in an infinite continuity.

To be alive is to be inseparable from the world, constantly dissipating energy into it.

Autonomous abstraction.
The dots of light blink and change color in cycles unique to each dot. A spontaneous order phenomenon occurs between dots that are close to each other, and their hues and the rhythm at which they blink gradually synchronize. When people touch them, the rhythm of the blinking hues change and are randomized, but the dots close to each other once again cause a spontaneous order phenomenon between them.
The dots of lights emit a tone each time they blink. The tones can be heard continuously throughout the space; what sounds like music is solely created by the continuous tones produced by the blinking lights.

A spontaneous order phenomenon occurs when different rhythms influence each other and synchronize. Examples include when the pendulums of two clocks gradually begin to swing together; when many fireflies gather in one tree and all start blinking at the same time, creating a larger light as a whole; or when the cells that make up the heart synchronize and tremble simultaneously to create the pulse of the heart. This can be seen in various systems, from physical phenomena, neurophysiology, to ecosystems. Although the individual parts do not have the ability to observe the whole, the phenomenon of self-organization is the creation of an ordered and larger structure, resulting from the autonomous behavior of each individual part influencing each other. This phenomenon is also known as spontaneous order.

It is believed that entropy (a measurement of the lack of order in a system) in the universe will steadily increase (the law of increasing entropy) and that entities with form eventually collapse. Despite that, it is a wonder that the sun was created and the planets were born, that life was formed and societies exist. However, the reason why the universe, life, nature, and society continue to be maintained in spite of this may be because order is continuously formed on its own through the shared phenomenon of self-organization in the midst of disorder. In other words, the universe and our own existence are a continuous order created by the same phenomenon.