Art Aug 14, 2020
Take a walk in the digital wilderness at teamLab Forest Fukuoka
by Mio Yamada
The art collective teamLab, known for its dazzling immersive exhibitions, has opened a new museum of interactive digital installations in Fukuoka.
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Ryoichi Kurokawa: The electronic artist's code
by Verena Dauerer
A self-taught multi-disciplinary artist merging art and electronic music, Ryoichi Kurokawa reconstructs the nature he grew up with software code.
Lifestyle | CHILD'S PLAY Aug 19, 2018
The museum where the kids can run wild
by Danielle Demetriou
Surreal as it sounds, the creation of personal digital crocodiles is a pretty typical activity in the world of teamLab — or more precisely, inside teamLab's new museum showcasing the work of the so-called "ultra-technologist" art collective.
Art Aug 26, 2017
Reconnecting with our nature: teamLab's digital revolution
by Mark Thompson
An interactive art collective wants us all to connect and experience a world without boundaries.
Art Jul 18, 2017
A bite of the virtual reality sandwich
by John L. Tran
What happens when you take the Nazi zombies, coin collecting, cuddly creatures, xenomorphs, etc., out of video games and you just wander around virtual reality? While pondering that, we could also ask, "How realistic is it to be Utopian?," "What is life without work?" and "How ...
Art | Tokyo Aug 11, 2016
With 'DMM.Planets' exhibition, teamLab defines the future of art
by Mark Jarnes
An exponential evolution in technology has led to increasingly immersive and interactive entertainment. And a certain Tokyo-based digital art collective is light years ahead of the rest. Multifaceted creative group teamLab's "DMM.Planets" is a massive 3,000 square-meter exhibition taking place at Odaiba Minna no Yume-Tairiku ...
Art / Openings In Tokyo Aug 18, 2015
'Teamlab Exhibition: Walk Through the Crystal Universe'
by Daisuke Kikuchi
Aug. 21-Sept. 27 Artist collective teamLab was founded in 2001, and its members include artists, programmers, engineers, CG animators, mathematicians, architects, designers and editors. Its work, therefore, has always been of a sophisticated artistic and technological nature. For the Pola Museum, it is turning the ...
Art Feb 5, 2015
Message trumps the medium at JMAF
by Mike Sunda
When Canadian philosopher Marshall McLuhan coined the phrase "The medium is the message" in the mid-1960s, the ensuing dialogue on media theory encouraged an approach that persists to the present day: to examine new types of technology through the societal and cultural changes that ...
Art Jan 8, 2015
Keeping up with the shifting world
by John L. Tran
Designers can be an ambitious bunch, hoping to lead us all into a better, color-coordinated, minimalist future. "The Fab Mind" aims to show off attempts "to understand and to resolve social issues through design'," based upon the earth-shattering notions that the world is in ...