As one of the world's top ten must-see art exhibitions, the teamLab exhibitions have sparked a frenzy among art enthusiasts since their debut in Tokyo. On November 5, 2019, the grand art museum "teamLab Borderless Shanghai", created by Guangyulai (ALight) in collaboration with the globally renowned digital artist teamLab, officially opened its doors along the Huangpu River waterfront in Shanghai.
TeamLab Borderless Shanghai is an art museum without maps or boundaries, where artworks are not confined by exhibition hall spaces. They interact, influence, and merge with each other. Visitors immerse their bodies in this boundless art, wandering through intricate 3D spaces, using their conscious senses to explore artworks, and collectively creating and discovering a new world with others.
As the first flagship store in China, teamLab Borderless Shanghai represents a new commercial immersive art exhibition type. It is currently the largest venue in China dedicated to immersive new media art, boasting the highest number of exhibited artworks and the largest exhibition area. With its boundaryless exhibits, the museum showcases the fusion of new media art and technology, offering a comprehensive display of exploration in the field of new media art. Curating new media art as a permanent exhibition and transforming it into a destination for cultural tourism experiences is a significant innovation of the project.
It opens up possibilities for more direct interaction and engagement between cultural and artistic projects and the general public.
TeamLab Borderless is an art collective created by the teamLab artistic group, known as the "museum without maps. " It’s an art experience where boundaries between rooms dissolve, and artworks interact with each other. There are no delineations between the artworks; they blend and influence one another. These seamlessly integrated artworks form a continuous world without boundaries. Immersing themselves in this borderless art, visitors wander and use their conscious bodies to explore, collectively creating and continually discovering new worlds.
TeamLab Borderless is a large-scale immersive art exhibition project utilizing high-definition projection, digital interaction, sensor technology, and more. It commenced operations in 2019. In terms of software art design, to achieve the theme of "borderless" for the art museum, the artist team employs projection blending technology and interactive techniques, allowing the visual works to transcend the concept of physical space and freely flow throughout the entire venue, seamlessly integrating as one.
In terms of interactive experience design, there is not only fusion and influence between visitors and artworks, but also interaction among the artworks themselves. All scenes may contain non-human-induced interactions and influences, allowing visitors to generate unlimited imagination and thoughts. With a display area of 6,600 square meters, the project showcases approximately 50 boundaryless art pieces, demonstrating the integration of new media art and technology. It serves as an integrated exhibition exploring the field of new media art, becoming a new cultural and tourist destination in Shanghai.
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Globally, TeamLab has almost become synonymous with the new digital cultural spaces that explore the fusion of technology and art. This case uses technology as a tool and art as a medium to engage participants in immersive contemplation of the relationship between individual life and the dimensions of time and space. The TeamLab Borderless Museum, established in China, quickly became a trendy hotspot. Its greatest allure might lie in the exploration and perception within the digital interactive light and shadow.
