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teamLab – Flower Forest: Lost, Immersed, and Reborn 

This summer, I was fortunate to travel to the Beijing 798 art district where I saw the project Flower Forest: Lost, Immersed and Reborn. This project is an immersive, interactive digital installation.

This piece is one of the many large scale digital art pieces by the group teamLab and sound designer Hideaki Takahashi. This group refers to themselves as ultra-technologists. Their mission includes expanding art using digital forms and developing relationships between people and art with these installations. These artists are also inspired by a collective building process bringing together artists, programmers, animators, mathematicians, engineers, architects, web and print graphic designers, and editors.

This is what inspired me to consider IDeATe as it is such a shared experience between many subjects. This project resets the boundary between physical design and architectural space. I admire these ultra-technologists for their ability to express the change in our environment and art. This will provide the future with limitless possibilities of designing spaces and users/viewers will be able to experience art more directly.