LIGHT + TECH 111 TEAMLAB
Tokyo-based teamLab, founded in 2001, is at the forefront of the digital immersive field. An interdisciplinary creative group that brings together artists, programmers, engineers, computer graphics animators, mathematicians, architects, web and print graphic designers and editors, they refer to themselves as ‘ultra-technologists’ bringing together art, science, technology and creativity.
Its Planets exhibition in Tokyo has set the Guinness World Record for the world’s most visited museum dedicated to a single group or artist. Between 1 April 2023 and 31 March 2024, teamLab Planets welcomed more than 2.5 million visitors. This marks the second time a teamLab museum has set a Guinness World Record, following the 2019 record by teamLab’s Borderless, also in Tokyo. Last year, Borderless also opened as a permanent exhibition in Jeddah. One of its most ambitious projects, scheduled for opening in 2025, is teamLab Phenomena Abu Dhabi – a 17,000m2
multisensory art experience
featuring original and constantly transforming artistic installations unique to Abu Dhabi. It will sit alongside the Louvre Abu Dhabi and the Guggenheim in the Saadiyat Cultural District. Writing for the Financial Times following a visit to Planets, Niki Blasina described teamLab’s work as ‘a delight, a mind-boggling and mesmerising marriage of visual and installation art with sensation — and a fascinating example of how technology can… influence our real-world experiences. It’s the art of tomorrow’.
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Light and Space movement, Carlos Cruz-Diez and his Chromosaturation series). There are also multi-disciplinary companies that create installations for corporate environments, exhibitions and so on (Jason Bruges Studio and United Visual Artists, for example). Immersive-Me, which has a dazzling array of services from projection mapping to projection domes, offers to create ‘artistic light installations at festivals’. Dominic Harris, meanwhile, distinguishes between the installations he creates as an artist (he is represented by the Halcyon Gallery) and those carried out for clients through Cinimod, the company he founded in 2007.
So the ‘immersive experience’ is something of a catch-all, ranging from the cor blimey to the sublime, from the second rate to the spectacular. At the cutting edge of the digital sphere is teamLab, which continues to bring art and technology together to create breathtaking installations in its home country and internationally. At the traditional end is the aforementioned Yayoi Kusama, whose new installation continues six decades of creating magical, immersive effects simply with light and mirrors.
Above left The Van Gogh Immersive Experience Exhibition
Top Blue Visions of an Iridescent Soul is an immersive interactive artwork by Dominic Harris that explores the microscopic intricacies and shifting colours of Morpho Helena’s butterfly wings, reimagined as a landscape
Above Chromosaturation by Carlos Cruz Diez at the London Hayward Gallery’s 2013 Light Show: non-digital artists such Argentina-born Diez immerse viewers in perception-shifting light and colour
Right teamLab’s Planets exhibition in Tokyo set the Guinness World Record for the world’s most visited museum dedicated to a single group or artist with more than 2.5 million visitors in a year
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