Living Digital Space

teamLab’s immersive installations explore alternative forms of perception using their concept of Ultra Subjective Space, a sense of spatial awareness developed from representations in the visual art of pre-modern Japan. This unique multidimensional perspective found in traditional Japanese painting incorporates time into spatial representation and acknowledges the movements of the viewer. Fusing art and technology, the natural imagery in these installations undergo transformations based on the actions of the viewer, creating a connection between physical and virtual life that encourages new ways of examining the surrounding natural world. This element of responsiveness to movement and touch is implicit of an individual’s autonomy as well as the balance that is sustained between man and nature. teamLab celebrates the agency of movement as both an individual and communal action through aesthetic reactions.

Future Parks

teamLab’s interactive digital playground, titled “teamLab Islands: Learn and Play! Future Parks,” focuses on promoting collaborative experiences for children through creativity and play. The interactive activities that make up this digital playground use technology to cultivate individual creative freedom within cooperative environments, an experience that teamLab refers to as “co-creation.” The exhibition in Menlo Park will feature seven different attractions that promote this shared sense of creativity through immersive digital environments. With participation as the foundational element of each work, children are encouraged to engage with the works and with each other, creating visual results as part of a larger team. Highlighting technology’s capacity to influence the relationships between people and to foster learning, teamLab Islands: Learn and Play! Future Parks emphasizes pattern recognition, causal relationships, tactile learning, spatial perception, and the importance of co-creation.