Body Immersive

2013

Dissolving the Boundary between the Body and the Artwork

Human expression has been liberated from material substance by the digital medium, and no longer requires an irreversible bond to the material in order to exist. As a result, the physical boundaries of artworks become ambiguous, and art can now transcend the notion of those boundaries. People can immerse their bodies in the artwork, and this causes the boundaries between the body and the art to dissolve. The experience encourages us to reconsider our perception of what the boundaries are between one's self and the world.
With others, people immerse themselves in the artwork and become one with it, exploring new perceptions of the borderless continuity between the self and the world.

teamLab Crystal Tree

teamLab, 2013-, Interactive Installation of Light Sculpture, LED, Endless, Sound: Hideaki Takahashi

This is an interactive, three-dimensional Crystal tree that is made from a cumulation of light points. It uses Interactive 4-D Vision to display dynamic visuals in real time based on selections made by participants. People can decorate the tree from their smartphones by adding large 3-D light ornaments that are made of hundreds of thousands of light points. Using the tablet provided, they can also rotate the tree in three dimensions.

호응하는 램프의 숲- 원 스트로크 / Forest of Resonating Lamps - One Stroke

teamLab, 2016, Interactive Installation, Endless, Sound: Hideaki Takahashi

This artwork, in which lamps are seemingly scattered in a random manner, is composed of resonating light that changes based on the relationship between the people in the artwork space. It is a work that expresses the beauty of continuity.When a person stands still close to a lamp, it shines brightly and emits a sound. The light spreads to the two closest lamps, which in turn similarly emit a sound, spreading their light to the lamps nearest to them. The light, now divided into two, will pass through all of the lamps in the room once, creating a single trajectory of light. The light created by your presence and light created by the presence of others, will always intersect.Although the lamps may seem randomly scattered, they have been intentionally placed so that regardless of the light’s starting point, or even if the light spreads endlessly, a smooth trajectory of light will always be created, crossing trajectories of light created by other people. More specifically, the arrangement of the lamps is mathematically determined. When drawing a line between lamps that are closest to each other, the distribution in height, direction of the lamp, and the smoothness of the three-dimensional trajectory is quantified in order to create a unicursal line with the same starting and ending point.As a result, a lamp’s light triggered by a person’s presence will, regardless of the fact that it is only spreading to the closest lamps, always pass through every lamp only once. The light will always cross the light created by others, and return to the original lamp that started its trajectory.The arrangement of the lamps may appear random, but it is to express the beauty of the continuity of light, created by people interacting with the lamps from any position.

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