My 6-year-old daughter is crying. The reason for her heartfelt sobs? It¡¯s time to go home and she has to say goodbye to a crocodile ¡ª a creature she lovingly drew with crayons before it was brought to life in a digital sea of animated maritime creatures.
Surreal as it sounds, the creation of digital crocodiles is a pretty typical activity in the world of teamLab ¡ª or more precisely, inside teamLab¡¯s new museum showcasing the work of the so-called ¡°ultra-technologist¡± art collective.
The new space, which recently opened its doors in the Odaiba district of Tokyo and is the first permanent museum to be devoted exclusively to teamLab¡¯s work, is as cavernous as its name is a mouthful: Mori Building Digital Art Museum: teamLab Borderless. It spans 10,000 square meters of a two-level former games arcade, with a string of innovative digital artworks loosely divided into five areas, all masterminded by a complex network of 520 computers and 470 projectors.
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