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Featured on SF WEEKLY, Jul 22, 2021

An Engaging Exhibit: ‘teamLab: Continuity’

San Francisco now has two major immersive art experiences. Besides “Immersive Van Gogh,” which opened in March, there is “teamLab: Continuity,” a multi-room excursion at the Asian Art Museum that opens Friday, and makes visitors feel like they’re in a nighttime dreamscape with nature and art swirling all about them — on the walls, on the floor, and on the visitors themselves. (Excerpt from the text)

Featured on CBS, jul 21, 2021

High-Tech ‘teamLab’: Continuity’ Exhibits Opens At Asian Art Museum in San Francisco

SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) — A dazzling, high-tech exhibit called teamLab: Continuity allows visitors to step into an other-worldly experience, where you can become part of the ever-changing art. The Asian Art Museum is the first museum in the US to display such largescale works from the popular Tokyo-based collaborative teamLab, known for its interconnected digital works.

Featured on Time Out, jul 20, 2021

The 1200-year-old Toji Temple in Kyoto is getting a teamLab exhibition

See Kyoto’s historical Toji Temple in a whole new light through this new teamLab exhibition opening in August. The temple, which is listed as a Unesco World Heritage Site, was built roughly 1,200 years ago. It’s considered to be Japan’s first temple dedicated to esoteric Buddhism. (Excerpt from the text)

Featured on THE BROOKLYN RAIL, July, 2021

Every Wall is a Door

teamLab is an interdisciplinary collective of over 400 “ultra-technologists” formed in Tokyo in 2001. It’s tempting to frame them as heirs apparent to VanDerBeek’s vision. Relying on devices familiar to cinema and theater such as darkened rooms, outsized projection, and spectacle, teamLab aims to make visitors’ participation integral to the fruition of their artworks in the service of “democratizing” art. Their monumental interactive digital installation at Superblue Miami is titled, with precision, Flowers and People, Cannot be Controlled but Live Together - Transcending Boundaries, A Whole Year per Hour (2017), and merges with a second installation, Universe of Water Particles, Transcending Boundaries (2017). A wall-length mirror reflects the space upon itself, enveloping visitors in a visually sensuous, expansive playground of illusion. Everything moves. Flower petals blossom and accumulate or languidly drift away, responding in real-time to participants’ motions. Larger-than-life luminous, stylized flora scale the walls. Glowing, flowing streams swirl underfoot, receding into darkness. A dreamy instrumental soundtrack shimmers through the speakers.(Excerpt from the text)