Tripping the Light Fantastic

With its highly Instagrammable installations, the creative collective teamLab has been shaking up the art world. Chloe Street meets the brains behind a phenomenon blurring the boundary between art and technology

Have you ever walked into a gallery and found a floating cube of LEDs programmed to shimmer in patterns resembling a fireplace? Or journeyed through a labyrinth of suspended crystals whose glittering patterns you can control via smartphone? Or drawn a fish and scanned it into a computer, only to have it appear seconds later swimming across a vast seabed projection on an adjacent wall? No. Then you probably haven’t encountered one of teamLab’s ultra-technological, interactive and synaesthetic visual, acoustic (and occasionally olfactory) experiences. The Japanese art collective was founded in 2001 by physics, mathematics and IT graduate Toshiyuki Inoko, who set out—with fellow University of Tokyo graduates, mainly majors in science and engineering—to “explore art through digital media. I wanted to create a place where people could collaborate and explore…

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Tatler Hong Kong (Digital) - 1 Issue, April 2017

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