Jessica Wandering

Photos and thoughts on my travels

Team lab Planets – a digital art experience I’ll never forget

You take off your shoes and wade through some water to enter and are greeted by a waterfall
I wish the “live” feature on my iPhone worked for the blog the lights are giving a sense of motion in an infinity room (mirrors everywhere including the ceiling)
And changing colors
Then there’s a room where the water is up to your knees and the fish and flowers react to the movement of the people in the room.
And of course this all inspires some of us to move and dance.
And then the fish can swim on your shirt
It was my favorite room… maybe

They also had a hallway and a room with bumps and lumps and different densities and textures. They talked about how flat and hard and square a world we live in. We did some somersaults and falls in the big soft room but forgot pictures there. Then…

The giant balls that react to pressure against each other and play sounds too were also cool
And inspiring
So fun
We spent some time in here too
It was great you could really lean on them
And then…
I could have spent all night here.
No photo can really do it justice
Sometimes butterflies and far away flowers
Then specific flowers like dahlias are falling toward you and feel like they might brush right by your body
Then sunflowers and other summer types
Losing their petals all over you
They were smart to make the floor a little cold or I really might have stayed there for hours. It was soothing and exciting at the same time. Totally mesmerizing.
Then there was this room where actual bundles of flowers surround and come toward you
They wanted you to stare and meditate on the flowers until you become one with them. I zoomed in to see just the shear number of flowers they are tending for this months-long exhibit.
I just found everything after the falling universe of flowers less engaging. But it was cool that they took you outside for some of it too.

We loved this art group and plan to go to their installations in any place we can. Osaka and Singapore are definitely getting a look. I love that they wanted to get you into your body and immersed with nature, but can use technology to do that. I didn’t expect it.

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5 responses to “Team lab Planets – a digital art experience I’ll never forget”

  1. jenniferlblackburn Avatar
    jenniferlblackburn

    Damn. That sounds like an insanely cool installation. It’s hard to believe the lengths they went to to create different visual / tactile / emotional experiences. Knee-deep water?? Continuously generated flower art that never repeats? And all those real flowers! I actually think those green and purple blobby Weeble-Wobble things looks super interesting too. Huh. Neat!

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    HWa 🌺

    Wow.. trippy cool. Wish I could be there with you. Maybe with a bit of enhancers. lol. -Hwa

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    1. jessicaeastre Avatar
      jessicaeastre

      I thought about that, too bad we don’t have any enhancement. But… it was really amazing without.

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  3. Alex Avatar
    Alex

    Oh fabulous. I remember how much you enjoyed meow wolf and this looks like the next generation!

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      jessicaeastre

      It was next level for sure! You would have liked it too

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