Martin Browne Contemporary is delighted to present the Japanese collective teamLab.
teamLab is an Ultra-technologists group made up of specialists including programmers (user interface engineers, database engineers, network engineers, hardware engineers, computer vision engineers, software architects), mathematicians, architects, CG animators, web designers, graphic designers, artists, editors and more. They create works through "experimentation and innovation" making the borders between science, technology, art and design more ambiguous. They are one of the hottest new artist groups working in the world today with exhibitions opening in a number of major international museums over the next year.
Neither a pre-recorded animation nor a loop, the work is rendered in real-time by a computer program. On a background that recalls a traditional gold-ground Japanese folding screen, flowers spring up, grow, bud and blossom before their petals begin withering, until the flowers eventually fade away. The cycle of growth and decay repeats itself in perpetuity.
The viewer’s presence affects the cycle, causing the flowers to either wither or blossom depending on the distance of the viewer to the work. The interaction between the viewer and the installation causes continuous change to the artwork and previous visual states can never be replicated, and will never reoccur.
Press release courtesy Martin Browne Contemporary.