Spatial Calligraphy: Line, Fish, and Shinkai2000

teamLab, 2015, Digital Installation, Sound: Hideaki Takahashi

Spatial Calligraphy: Line, Fish, and Shinkai2000

teamLab, 2015, Digital Installation, Sound: Hideaki Takahashi

Spatial Calligraphy is calligraphy drawn in space, a form of calligraphy that teamLab has been exploring since it was founded. The artwork reconstructs calligraphy in three dimensional space to express the depth, speed and power of the brush stroke, and that calligraphy is then flattened using the logical structure of space that teamLab calls Ultrasubjective Space. The calligraphy shifts between two and three dimensions.

Here, the space containing the Shinkai 2000, Japan’s first full-scale manned research submersible, was transformed into a work of art surrounded by letters of light, giving visitors the impression of the depth and power of the Shinkai 2000, as well as the sensation of floating in the deep ocean.