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Light sculpture space reopens at Japan's digital art museum

visitors look at a piece at Tokyo's Borderless museum.Image source, EPA/ Shutterstock
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A light sculpture space in Japan's first digital museum has re-opened with two new artworks.

TeamLab Borderless is a Digital Art Museum in Tokyo, Japan.

Their 'Light Sculpture- Flow' artspace has reopened with an exhibition On the Asymmetry of the Universe" with two new series "Asymmetric Existence" and "Chromatic Existence".

Chromatic existence.Image source, EPA/Shutterstock
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Chromatic Existence is one of the new series in the reopened Light sculpture-Flow space.

Teamlab is an art collective made up of animators, programmers, architects, mathematicians and designers which began in 2001.

The Borderless museum originally opened in Odaiba, Tokyo, but reopened in a new location in 2024 in Tokyo's Azabudai Hills.

A woman walks through a space with pink and red flowers projected on wall and floor.Image source, EPA/ Shutterstock
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Visitors move freely through the artworks

Using projectors and computers, visitors can fully immerse themselves in artworks, exploring multiple spaces with constantly shifting digital art.

The borderless name is because there is no fixed route or maps.

More than 560 projectors, computers, and hundreds of sensors are installed in the space, to create more than 70 artworks.

Images of fish are projected on to a dark room's walls and floor.Image source, EPA/ Shutterstock

In Sketch Aquarium for example visitors can colour a fish on paper provided then watch as it joins other fish made by other people in the massive aquarium projected all around.

People can even interact with and feed the fish.

Walk, Walk, Walk an installation at Borderless.Image source, EPA/ Shutterstock
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In Walk, Walk, Walk strange creatures keep walking and moving

Some artworks interact with others like Walk, Walk, Walk.

Mystical creatures keep walking, but when people touch them they might change direction or stop.

They cross other artworks and move into other spaces.