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World's first digital art museum in Tokyo allows complete immersion
The exhibition itself is linked in real-time to the real-world seasons, which means that no two trips to the museum will be the same.
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In this picture taken on May 1, 2018 a Japanese member of Teamlab collective walks and poses in a digital installation room with hanging lamps, that illuminate as the visitor nears and the light moves from one lamp to another around the room, at the Mori Building's Digital Art Museum in Tokyo. (AFP/Behrouz Mehri)
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he world’s first digital art museum opened its doors to the public in Japan earlier this month, allowing patrons to step all the way into the artworks.
Attendees are able to move freely through the 9,000-square meter interactive gallery. The exhibition itself is linked in real-time to the real-world seasons, which means that no two trips to the museum will be the same.
The installation is located in the Digital Art Museum: teamLab Borderless in Tokyo’s Mori Building and is a collaboration between Japanese art collective teamLab and Tokyo-based urban developer Mori Building.
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TeamLab communications director Takashi Kudo told the New York Post that the exhibition was “borderless and transcends boundaries.”
“If you make it on canvas, there are boundaries; if you make a sculpture, you can’t change it. But for digital [art], you can always change, because the digital world doesn’t really exist.” (sul/kes)
