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Suitable for: 3 years old and up |
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Immerse yourself in a world of art, science, technology and culture through a collection of digital interactive installation.
Future World takes visitors on an exciting journey of discovery through two sections – City in Nature and Exploring New Frontiers.
This permanent exhibition is created in collaboration with teamLab, a renowned interdisciplinary art collective.
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City in Nature
Start your adventure with an enchanting commute through City in Nature, a section inspired by Singapore's urban biodiversity. Walk on flowers that bloom underfoot and encounter animals created from floral motifs, in an art installation that reminds us of the interconnectedness of all things.
Continuous Life and Death at the Now of Eternity
In this artwork, seasonal flowers are in a continual cycle of life and death, moving to a different place in the space each time. Different moments exist simultaneously yet change gradually over time.
When visitors touch the flowers, the petals scatter, and when they stand still, more flowers begin to grow. The flowers change in the flow of time.
Flow Reaches Far
When a visitor moves in the space a ‘flow’ is born, and that flow creates an influence that extends far and wide. The movement of every other visitor will likewise create a flow, all coming together to create a vortex. When visitors stop, or leave the space, the vortices and the flow will eventually disappear. Nothing will exist in the space.
The flow in the artwork is expressed as a continuum of particles, the trajectories of those particles come together to draw lines in three-dimensional space. These lines are then flattened according to what teamLab calls ‘Ultrasubjective Space’, which is a concept that draws inspiration from traditional East Asian painting where the boundaries between the physical world and the world of the artwork are dissolved.
Animals of Flowers, Symbiotic Lives - A Whole Year per Year
Seasonal flowers bloom while slowly changing. Animals are born from those flowers. The flowers continue to bloom and die in an eternal cycle, forming the shapes of animals.
When visitors continue to touch the flower-animals, the flower petals scatter. If visitors touch the animals too much, all the flowers will scatter, and the animals will and fade away.
With that simple yet powerful gesture, teamLab makes a powerful statement on our connection to nature. When human intervention goes above a certain level, it becomes harmful and detrimental to nature, but if we limit our interactions, we can maintain a harmonious coexistence with nature.
Like Continuous Life and Death, the artwork is created by a computer program that continuously renders the work in real time. The images you see at this moment can never be seen again.
Sliding through the Fruit Field
A playful and colourful interactive artwork that is projected onto a slide.
Visitors become a beam of life-giving sunlight, and as they glide down the slope, their energy is transferred to the fruit field, causing flowers and fruit to blossom and grow. As the different elements interact in the field, new seeds are sown, leading to new life.
Water Droplets, Flowing Down a Slope
An interactive artwork showcasing water’s properties as it flows down a slope.
As visitors climb the steps up the hill, they impart energy to the water, causing the flowing stream to break apart into bouncing water droplets. This highlights how water behaves differently in its various forms, changing dynamically in response to its environment.
A Table Where Little People Live
The little people are a community of miniature characters interacting with one another, paying little attention to the world outside.
However, when you place your hand or an object on the table, the little people will notice and respond. Their actions change according to the shape and colour of the objects, becoming more animated as more objects are added to their world.
A Musical Wall Where Little People Live
Inside the world of the wall, a community of little people run around inside, oblivious to us.
However, when you attach various stamps of mushrooms, sheep barns or long sticks of ice to the wall, these objects materialise in the world of the little people. Watch the little people happily slide, jump, climb and play with the objects in delight.
A Window to the Universe where Little People Live
Create a picture by drawing lines with a light pen or make shapes with a light stamp. See your artwork come alive in the little people’s world, where each colour holds a special power.
Draw with those around you and experiment with lots of stamps. Together, you can create a new world in the little people’s universe, granting them various powers and fuelling their playful energy.
Sketch Aquarium: Connected World
This iconic installation features a digitally rendered, aquatic world of underwater animals.
Participants of all ages use their imagination to create fantastic and colourful sea creatures on paper. They are then digitally scanned and brought to life to swim freely in the aquarium where they live.
The sea creatures transcend the physical boundaries of the museum and swim out into exhibitions around the world. Similarly, sea creatures drawn in other parts of the world may appear and swim into the Sketch Aquarium: Connected World right in front of you.
Exploring New Frontiers
Crystal Universe
This monumental, immersive and interactive artwork by teamLab, puts you at the heart of the Universe, enabling you to experience astrophysical phenomena such as planets, stars and galaxies.
Inspired by Pointillism, which is a painting technique that uses an accumulation of dots of colour to create a picture, Crystal Universe uses points of light to create three-dimensional images in space.
Visitors can use their smartphones to access a website to select different astrophysical phenomena that then appear in the Crystal Universe. These phenomena are reborn in three dimensions, creating the artwork. The presence of people and their location within the work affects the three-dimensional images, which in turn influence and are influenced by other phenomena that appear in the space.
Light Sculpture with Paper Airplane
Create a paper airplane and fly it into an interactive light sculpture.
In this artwork, teamLab creates a sculpture formed by a collection of light that flows continuously mid-air.
The flight path of each airplane affects the colour, shape, and sound of the artwork, creating a visual and aural spectacle. As the light sculpture cycles through a series of scenes, each scene provides a different set of responses to the paper airplanes.
Sketch Umwelt World
In Sketch Umwelt World, visitors are invited to colour their own aeroplane, butterfly, dolphin or hawk on the paper provided and see their creations appear digitally in the artwork.
Visitors can then use provided tablet devices provided to experience the world from the perspective of the animal or aeroplane that they drew. Aeroplanes represent human vision, butterflies have a 340-degree field of vision, dolphins perceive the world mostly through echolocation, and hawks can focus their vision on two things at once.
Aerial Climbing through a Flock of Colored Birds
Aerial Climbing is an interactive artwork created from horizontal bars of varying colours, projection, coloured light and sound. Suspended by rope, the bars appear to float in space. People can use these bars to navigate carefully through the artwork. The bars are linked, so every movement will affect other bars and also the people who are standing on them. Everyone’s experience will differ depending on the route chosen and how many other people are climbing at the same time. The artwork explores the aerial dance of swooping, intricately coordinated patterns of birds in the sky, a phenomenon known as murmuration.
teamLab (f. 2001) is an international art collective. Their collaborative practice seeks to navigate the confluence of art, science, technology, and the natural world. Through art, the interdisciplinary group of specialists, including artists, programmers, engineers, CG animators, mathematicians, and architects, aims to explore the relationship between the self and the world, and new forms of perception.
teamLab is represented by Pace Gallery, Martin Browne Contemporary, and Ikkan Art.
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