THE MORI BUILDING DIGITAL ART MUSEUM

Images by Designboom and Teamlab

The Mori Building full-scale Digital Art Museum at the Mori Building in Tokyo was exceptionally conceived in partnership with Teamlab. The immersive museum features multiple 3-dimensional spaces across an overwhelming scale of 10,000 square meters, and uses 520 computers and 470 projectors. Using the term ‘Teamlab borderless’ the Japanese ‘ultra-technologists’ described the nature of the boundary-free installations that transcend the various rooms, creep down the halls, communicate with other artworks, and sometimes even blend in with them.

Flower forest: Lost, immersed and reborn

Located in the palette town complex of Odaiba, Designboom website has it that, the all-new museum idea was a collaborative initiative between Mori Building , a recognized supporter of culture and art and Teamlab, an interdisciplinary creative group that express art through utilized digital technologies. The aim of the exclusive museum in line with the term ‘Borderless’  was to tear down the boundaries between ‘one art and another’, ‘art and visitors’, and ‘oneself and others’, a process that allows visitors to melt into the art and become part of it. This allows Visitors to lose themselves in the artworks, the installations morphing and transforming according to the presence of people. 

According to Teamlab, as quoted by Designboom website, ‘As we immerse and meld ourselves into this unified world, we explore a continuity among people, as well as a new relationship that transcends the boundaries between people and the world.’

Beautiful world’, ‘born from the darkness a loving, ‘flower forest’ and ‘black waves’ installations are still evolving, computer-generations that occupy three-dimensional space. They communicate, influence and sometimes intermingle with each other, while human presence determines the activity of the artwork, the physical influences and the connections between the digital objects which are calculated in real time, producing a complex and natural world. other artworks see seasons change gradually across the installation spaces, a seasonal year of flowers budding, growing, and blossoming before their petals begin to wither and eventually fade away.

Another unique initiative is Teamlab’s ‘athletics forest’ that connects creativity with physical activity, helping the brain grow and training spatial awareness skills. Visitors can feel three-dimensional light bouldering across sparkling gemstones, a space to jump high and sink low through ‘boing boing universe’, the area to navigate across floating, swinging bars, trying not to fall and a large three-dimensional ‘mountain’ created with slopes of different elevations. Through such experience, participants become immersed in interactive digital art across complex three-dimensional spaces that result in an impactful, physical and creative experience.