
Tokyo · Azabudai and Toyosu
teamLab
Digital installations with no fixed floor plan, which change because you are standing in them
Rooms where the projection responds to movement, so no two visits are the same
A collective of programmers, artists and mathematicians has spent fifteen years building rooms in which projected work reacts to the people inside it, with no repeating loop and no map: you find the rooms by wandering, and the work you saw does not exist in that form again.
It is the most copied format in contemporary exhibition-making and the original remains substantially better than the imitations, largely because the software is genuinely generative rather than a video on a wall.
The detail
Good to know
- Format
- Generative digital installations
- Entry
- Timed tickets, book days ahead
- Practical
- Water rooms and mirrored floors
- Duration
- Two to three hours typical
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