Text by Caterina Sbrana.
The International Council of Museums defines the Museum as A permanent, non-profit institution serving society and its development. It is open to the public and carries out researches concerning the material and immaterial testimonies of humanity and its environment; it acquires them, preserves them, communicates them and, above all, exposes them for the purposes of study, education and pleasure.
However there is a museum in Tokyo’s Odaiba district that has no floor maps, no glass or ropes around the exhibits, has nothing at all in fact to distance the viewer from the viewed. That’s because the some 60 works on display are all digital, projected onto surfaces or shining out from screens (except from the text).
The creators of the museum define themselves as a group of artworks that form one borderless world. Artworks move out of the rooms, communicate with other works, influence, and sometimes intermingle with each other with no boundaries.
An art, then, without border that covers 10,000 square meters where we admire a three-dimensional world.
We explore this extraordinary virtual museum. We can move in the Universe of Water, or admire the beauties of Crystal World, walk in the Flower Forest, try to capture the Spirit of the Flower etc. immersing ourselves in environments that involve all our senses.
It is not simply an observation of a work of art, it is a continuous interaction with those close to you, it is a continuous perception of a world without borders, it is an immersion without sense of time.
forest of resonating lamp
We can’t be surprised if Swizz Beats chose this location to make the video of the song Echo, or why it is used by the photographer Miko Ninagawa. Miko says that taking photographs inside this virtual museum was like going into the forest for an adventure even though this forest was digital.
Takashi Kudo, responsible for communication for the collective TeamLabBorderless explains that it is not only technology the core of the TeamLab’s work, but rather the desire to create digital art for “changing people’s values and contributing to the progress of society”.
We too, readers and users of art in all its forms, are interested in keeping an eye on the future developments of “digital art”.
the way of the sea, floating nest
MORI Building DIGITAL ART MUSEUM: teamLab Borderless
Odaiba Palette Town 2F, 1-3-8 Aomi, Koto-ku, Tokyo, Japan
https://borderless.teamlab.art/
A special session at the 12th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence (ICAART) is called on:
Dear readers, I once again speak about New York and in particular about the Met, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, which digitized a large number of historical documents in the last two years and made them available to the “World” via their website. The Museum has three sites in New York City: The Met Fifth Avenue, The Met Breuer, and The Met Cloisters.
In its 16th edition, the iPRES conference will bring together scientists, students, researchers, archivists, librarians, providers, and other experts to share recent developments and innovative projects in a wide variety of topics in digital preservation from strategy to implementation, and from international and local initiatives. Year on year the debate and research profiled at iPRES have moved digital preservation from a technology driven niche specialism of experts to a global challenge with the community to match.
The international Conference “Reconstruction Recovery and Resilience of Historic Cities and Societies” took place in L’Aquila from 10 to 12 July 2019.
Dear readers, this time I’ll take you to a village that I consider an authentic open-air museum, where alleys, palaces, small squares and the bell tower tell us of a distant past in an extraordinary valley surrounded by gullies. When arriving at Civita, indications inform us that it is possible to download for free an APP that is a guide for the village, which I of course immediately did.
Scientists, researchers and educators are invited to submit full papers reporting on their original and unpublished research in e-Infrastructures and computational and data-intensive sciences for e-AGE, Integrating Arab e-infrastructure in a Global Environment, the annual international conference organized by the Arab States Research and Education Network.
The European Heritage Awards / Europa Nostra Awards are Europe’s top honour in the field of cultural heritage.
The last April, the European Parliament and Council reached a political agreement on Horizon Europe and started to prepare the strategic planning process to identify missions and European Partnerships, major policy drivers and strategic policy priorities.
This event is an annual policy event of the European Commission, bringing together stakeholders to debate and shape the future research and innovation landscape and it will take place in Brussels from 24 to 26 September 2019.
