teamLab: Ube Tokiwa Park 2019<br>The Way of Water and the Way of Light in the Botanical Garden | teamLab

The school of fish illuminated by the light move freely through space, and their trails of light become spatial calligraphy. The fish sense people in the space and try to avoid colliding with them.
“The way of the bird” is a saying in Zen which refers to the fact that unlike a human road the road of the bird is not fixed. It means freedom and leaving no trace. Here the birds are replaced with fish.
The movement of thousands or tens of thousands of fish is beautiful and mysterious, like a single giant life form. The school of fish has neither a leader nor mutual consensus, but just moves on the simple basis of; if my neighbor moves, then I move, too. However, the biological mechanism that causes hundreds of fish to move at the same time is still enigmatic. It seems there is a universal principle that human beings do not yet understand. The group of trails of light drawn in the space have no meaning as a whole, while being influenced by the existence of people, the lines are drawn by the movement of each fish that seems to obey some kind of primitive rule.
The work is not a pre-recorded image that is played back; it is based on a computer program that continuously renders the work in real time. The interaction between people and the installation causes continuous change in the artwork; previous visual states can never be replicated, and will never reoccur. The picture at this moment can never be seen again.

글자마다 각자의 세계가 있다. 사람들이 글자에 손을 대면, 그 글자만의 세계가 나타나며, 이들이 서로 영향을 주고 받으며 하나의 세계를 만들어 간다. 비나 눈, 꽃들은 바람의 영향을 받으며, 새들은 나무에 앉고, 나비는 꽃을 찾아 날아든다.다른 작품이 글자에 닿아도 그 글자만의 세계가 나타난다. 사람들에 의해 생겨난 세계가 또 다른 사람들이나 다른 작품에 의해 생겨난 세계와 영향을 주고 받으며 새로운 그림을 만들어 간다.지금 이 순간에 나타난 모습은 두 번 다시는 경험할 수 없다.
작품은 때때로 아주 멀리까지 퍼져나가기도 한다.