teamLab Reopens Digital Art Exhibition in Kyushu Park
This summer, teamLab will reopen its exhibition A Forest Where Gods Live in a Kyushu park. The Tokyo-based digital art collective has once again chosen Mifuneyama Rakuen, a 500,000-square-meter park, for the exhibition, which explores how technology can turn nature into art without damaging it.
Let's take a look at how the ancient trees, rocks and caves of this historic park will be transformed each night by teamLab's digital art.
Ever Blossoming Life Rock
Colorful flowers that grow, bloom and fall are projected onto a 5-meter-high rock in a continuous, ever-changing pattern.
Drawing on the Water Surface Created by the Dance of Koi and Boats
This artwork projects koi carp onto the park's pond. The koi react to each other and to small boats on the pond, and each koi leaves a colorful trail behind it.
Universe of Water Particles on a Sacred Rock
This is a digital waterfall that appears to fall onto a real 3-meter-high rock, creating patterns as the digital water flows over the rock's surface.
Megaliths in the Bath House Ruins
Inside an old bathhouse are megaliths — large rectangular objects — onto which are projected ever-changing patterns of flowers and flowing water.
Graffiti Nature — Living in the Ruins of a Bathhouse, Red List
Also in the bathhouse is a display of wildlife from the "red list" — an international database of endangered plants and animals. Visitors can draw their own animals and watch them come to life and move around the floor and walls.
Life is Continuous Light — Azalea Valley
In a valley filled with thousands of azalea bushes, each of the bushes reacts by lighting up and changing color as people come near — and this light and color spread through all the bushes.
Resonating Forest — Cherry Blossoms and Maple
The trees in this forest each shine with their own light. As people come near a tree its color will change, and that color will spread through the trees nearby. When you see a color spreading through the trees in another part of the forest, you know that there are people there too!
