Artworks themselves can now show how one person is able to instigate perpetual change and how the viewers, as well as the environment where the artwork is installed, can also affect change on the artwork. For example, digital technology enables artworks to express change in itself much more freely and also much more precisely. «The ability of digital technology to enable change allows us to express much more than we were able to express before the arrival of the digital age. Artists are now able to manipulate and use much larger amounts of space, allowing viewers to experience artworks more directly».ĭigital technology has allowed us to express change in itself Digital technology has also allowed to develop space adaptability, which provides us with a greater degree of autonomy within the space where the artwork is to be installed. «No longer tied down to physical specificity – teamLab ultra-technologists go on – digital technology has made it possible to expand artworks, an example being the use of projection mapping to create extensive art installations. The advent of digital technology allowed human expression to become free from all these physical constraints, enabling it to exist independently and change freely.

Creative expression has existed through static mediums for many years, often mediated by the use of physical objects such as canvas and paint, giving rise to the familiar adage of a painting coming to life. Before people started accepting the concept of digital technology, information had to be embodied in some physical form for it to exist. «Digital technology – the ultra-technologists say – releases expression from substance and creates an existence with the possibility for transformation».įor example, digital technology enables more freedom for change and complex detail. TeamLab believes that digital technology can expand art and that digital art can create new relationships between people. Referring to themselves as “ultra-technologists” their aim is to achieve a balance between art, science, technology and creativity. TeamLab, founded in 2001, is a collaborative, interdisciplinary creative group that brings together professionals from various fields of practice in the digital society: artists, programmers, engineers, CG animators, mathematicians, architects, web and print graphic designers and editors.

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