Moving Creates Vortices and Vortices Create Movement by Teamlab

27/12/2017. The Triennial of Contemporary Art and Design in NGV [Melbournef] Australia 1512.2017 - 04.15.2018
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Founded by Toshiyuki Inoko, teamLab is an art collective and interdisciplinary creative group based in Tokyo whose members refer to themselves as ‘ultratechnologists’. teamLab has created a fully immersive digital installation inspired by human, digital and spatial relationships.
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‘Moving Creates Vortices and Vortices Create Movement’, by Teamlab, is a responsive digital installation taking part at the The Triennial of Contemporary Art and Design is underway at the National Gallery of Victoria (NGV).

When a person moves within this environment, their movement is tracked by sensors that communicate via computer with the projectors – thus movement creates a visual vortex – expressing the movement of each person in the space as a continuum of digital particles. The faster each person moves, the stronger the vortex becomes. If a person is not moving or there are no people present, no visual flow occurs. As such, this work of art is born of and continues to transform under the influence of people.

Vortices are the hallmark of nature – defining global weather, oceans and the microclimates of cities. In the sea, vortices caused by weather and thermal change flow eternally, pushing the carcasses of organisms that have sunk to the sea floor upwards, producing areas of nutriment and diversity. Moving creates vortices and vortices create movement, 2017, melds digital design with contemporary art practices to extend teamLab’s ongoing explorations into the digitisation of natural phenomenon.
 

Moving Creates Vortices and Vortices Create Movement
teamLab, 2017, Interactive Digital Installation, Endless, Sound: teamLab

When a person moves, a force is applied in that direction. As a result a flow occurs. When a fast flow occurs a rotation phenomenon is produced due to the difference in the flow velocity around it, creating a vortex.

Flow in the artwork is expressed as a continuum of numerous particles and the interaction between the particles is calculated. Lines are drawn according to the trails of the particles. The cumulation of lines that represent the work are then “flattened” in line with what teamLab considers to be ultrasubjective space.

The faster the person moves, the stronger the force is applied in that direction. If a person is not moving or there are no more people, no flow will occur and nothing will be present in the space.

Works are born and continue to transform under the influence of people's movement.

In the ocean, complicated terrain such as an island produces flow velocity difference and a vortex is generated. Vortices swirl up the carcasses of organisms sunk to the bottom of the ocean, producing nutritious seawater. This becomes a source of nutrition for plankton to grow and nourishes the sea life. Vortices therefore contribute to enriching the ocean.

Moving Creates Vortices and Vortices Create Movement by Teamlab
Moving Creates Vortices and Vortices Create Movement by Teamlab Moving Creates Vortices and Vortices Create Movement by Teamlab
Moving Creates Vortices and Vortices Create Movement by Teamlab
Moving Creates Vortices and Vortices Create Movement by Teamlab
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Dates
Dec 15, 2017 - Apr 15, 2018
Venue
Special Exhibitions Gallery, Ground Level, NGV International. National Gallery of Victoria, 180 St Kilda Road, Melbourne Vic 3006, Australia

teamLab

teamLab (f. 2001, Tokyo, by Toshiyuki Inoko) is an interdisciplinary group of ultra-technologists whose collaborative practice seeks to navigate the confluence of art, technology, design and the natural world. Rooted in the tradition of ancient Japanese Art and contemporary forms of anime, teamLab operates from a distinctly Japanese sense of spatial recognition, investigating human behavior in the information era and proposing innovative models for societal development. teamLab’s works are in the permanent collection of Borusan Contemporary, Istanbul; The Asian Art Museum, San Francisco; The Asia Society Museum, New York; Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide; and Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney. They have been the subject of numerous exhibitions worldwide; in 2015, a projection work was exhibited on the façade of the Grand Palais, Paris.
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