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Featured on The Art Newspaper, Sep 25, 2020

TeamLab to open permanent installation in Shanghai nightclub

The multimedia collective teamLab has formally announced the October opening of its second permanent installation in a Shanghai nightclub. The club called Master is in a new trendy mall called TX Huaihai Youth Energy Centre. TeamLab’s announcement describes the project called Shower³ as a “sculpture space that immerses the body in a three-dimensional shower of light”. The work combines two of the collective’s series from 2016: the moving light lines of Light Sculpture - Line and the laser planes of Light Sculpture - Plane. The nightclub will be managed by the Chinese entertainment group RT (Round Table), which bills it as a “24-hour light and shadow art interaction space”. (Excerpt from the text)

Featured on The Art Newspaper, Sep 14, 2020

Saudi Arabia pushes soft power by launching new teamLab digital art museum in Jeddah

The multimedia collective teamLab will launch a new digital art museum in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, by 2023 called teamLab Borderless Jeddah. The Tokyo-based technology group, known for producing crowdpleasing immersive experiences awash with virtual waterfalls and flowers, has entered into a ten-year agreement with the Saudi Ministry of Culture to develop works for the planned museum. (Excerpt from the text)

Featured on HYPEBAE, Sep 9, 2020

TEAMLAB TO BRING INTERACTIVE ART TO BARCELONA'S CAIXAFORUM

Despite the ongoing pandemic, teamLab has slowly begun announcing upcoming interactive exhibitions all around the world, including Seoul and the Netherlands. Now, the art collective has revealed Barcelona as the latest location for its immersive pieces. Taking place at CaixaForum, the new exhibition is centered around a theme of changing releationships. Utilizing digital technology, the collective is bringing two works created in partnership with la Caixa” Foundation. Born From the Darkness a Loving, and Beautiful World involves calligraphy graphics that viewers can touch to influence the entire art piece. (Excerpt from the text)

Featured on Saudi Gazette, Sep 13, 2020

Japanese teamLab to set up digital museum in Jeddah

RIYADH — The Ministry of Culture is preparing to set up an interactive digital museum in Jeddah in cooperation with the international Japanese digital art group teamLab. The museum is part of a ten-year agreement between the ministry and teamLab under which the museum will be established in Jeddah by the beginning of 2023. The art group teamLab is specialized in designing digital museums in which arts and technology intersect in innovative creative spaces. It established the world’s first digital museum, which is known for its colorful, futuristic digital art installations and photo ops. (Excerpt from the text)

Featured on Time Out, Sep 9, 2020

You can now create your own teamLab art at home on your TV or computer

teamLab seems to be everywhere in Japan. Their two flagship museums in Tokyo, teamLab Borderless and teamLab Planets, are open again with extra safety measures – they even have free hidden works scattered throughout Tokyo. Elsewhere in the country, the art collective has recently launched new exhibitions in Fukuoka, Kyushu’s Taeko Onsen town, and Saitama. Unfortunately, travellers whose trips have been cancelled due to Japan’s strict entry ban will have to wait a bit longer to experience the immersive art in person. (Excerpt from the text)

Featured on NUMÉRO, Sep 7, 2020

Quand un parc de 50 hectares se transforme en œuvre d'art nocturne

Pour la sixième année consécutive, le collectif international teamLab investit le parc Mifuneyama Rakuen, situé sur l'île de Kyushu au sud du Japon. Jusqu'au 8 novembre, 22 œuvres audiovisuelles d'ampleur spécialement réalisées pour ce vaste parc de 50 hectares s'y animeront chaque nuit, de la surface de l'étang au sommet de la montagne. (Excerpt from the text)

Featured on BIRD IN FIGHT, Sep 8, 2020

Руками трогать: Что умеет интерактивное искусство

Интерактивные предметы искусства рассчитаны на участие зрителей — без них оно не раскрывается полностью. Такие инсталляции реагируют светом, звуком и движением на присутствие людей, их голос, прикосновения и даже эмоции. (Excerpt from the text)

Featured on albawaba, Sep 22, 2020

How Can You See Japanese Art Splashed in Saudi Spaces?

Japan’s TeamLab Borderless has brought to life the idea of a world of digital art without boundaries, a museum where art installations can move from one room to another and come alive in different parts of the world simultaneously. Artworks such as these will be seen in Saudi Arabia, now that its Ministry of Culture has announced plans for a space in Jeddah to exhibit interactive digital artworks created by the Tokyo-based technology group. (Excerpt from the text)

Featured on ARAB NEWS, Sep 19, 2020

teamLab to set up new digital art museum in Jeddah

Saudi Arabia has linked up with international art collective teamLab to establish a new digital art museum in the Kingdom. As part of the country’s Vision 2030 reform plan to diversify the economy through cultural and artistic enterprise, the collaboration will see an interdisciplinary group of specialists develop artworks for display at the museum, to be called teamLab Borderless Jeddah, by 2023. (Excerpt from the text)