TeamLab interactive digital art museum at Venetian Macao explores humans’ connection with nature
- Colourful, interactive installations flow into each other and react in real-time to visitors’ movement and actions
- Jump on a trampoline that displays a digital image of sprawling galaxies to create new planets, or leave a trail of stars by running around
Japanese art collective TeamLab is launching a digital art museum in Macau this month after its original opening was delayed due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Billed as a “body immersive” experience, the 5,000-square-metre museum with 8m-high ceilings will be filled with ever-changing artworks reflective of TeamLab’s mission to explore humans’ connection with nature in the digital age.
Visitors to the museum – called “TeamLab SuperNature” – can expect a kaleidoscope of colours and interactive installations that flow and meld into each other and react in real-time to their movement and actions.
“With the advent of digital technology, human expression was freed from physical materials,” says Toshiyuki Inoko, founder of TeamLab. “We do not require an irreversible bonding to physical material to express ourselves. Because of digital technology, which we call digital art … it became easier for human creation and nature to coexist.”
The theme of the museum at the Venetian Macao is “the continuity of yourself and the world that you perceive”, Inoko says. It will showcase three groups of art in sections labelled “Artworks”, “Future Park” and “Athletics Forest”.
