Untitled / New work for teamLab Borderless
teamLab's world-first digital art museum, "MORI Building DIGITAL ART MUSEUM: teamLab Borderless," will open in Palette Town, Odaiba, Tokyo, on June 21, 2018. Ahead of the opening, a press preview was held, revealing the interior.

The facility, which will open on the site of the former Tokyo Leisure Land, closest to Aomi Station on the Yurikamome Line or Tokyo Teleport Station on the Rinkai Line, will be jointly operated with Mori Building Co., Ltd. and will be teamLab's flagship facility. The facility will be an impressive 10,000 square meters in size, featuring a record-breaking 470 projectors. Approximately 40 artworks, including some making their world premiere, will be exhibited in five distinct spaces.

The word "Borderless," both the facility's concept and its name, embodies the idea of eliminating the boundaries between "artwork and work," "artwork and viewer," and "self and others," allowing viewers to become a part of the artwork and blend in. The facility offers an opportunity to rethink existing values and social frameworks. The layout of the facility is truly borderless, with artworks communicating with each other through a complex system, exiting rooms, moving through corridors, and sometimes merging. The artworks also respond to viewers' movements by changing color, spreading, and multiplying. A completely new, unique world unfolds, creating new experiences for the artworks, visitors, and even those present.

The five spaces—Borderless World, teamLab Athletics Forest, Future Amusement Park, Lamp Forest, and EN Tea House—are not intended to be viewed in any particular order. Once you pass through the entrance, the "Borderless World" - the core of the facility - unfolds before you, and you are soon immersed in the space.

Flower Forest: Lost, Immersed and Reborn
/ teamLab, 2017, Interactive Digital Installation, Endless, Sound: Hideaki Takahashi

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BoingBoingUniverse teamLab, 2018-, Interactive Digital Installation, Sound: DAISHI

Another major piece of content is "teamLab Athletics Forest," based on the concept of "perceiving the world with your body and thinking about it in three dimensions." According to teamLab's director, Toshiyuki Inoko, spatial awareness is said to be as important as language and mathematics in recent years. This project allows visitors to experience new creative exercises that develop the brain's hippocampus and train spatial awareness. This section allows visitors to actively enjoy complex, three-dimensional digital art, including a space-like space where you can jump high and sink like on a trampoline, a space filled with spheres of light that move in a way that seems to defy gravity, light bouldering, and walking on suspended poles suspended in the air.

Forest of Resonating Lamps - One Stroke
teamLab, 2016, Interactive Digital Installation, Murano Glass, LED, Endless
"Forest of Lamps" is a work shown in Japan for the first time. Countless lamps are hung from the ceiling, and visitors can experience it in a room surrounded by mirrors on all sides. If you stand near a lamp and stay still for a while, the nearest lamp will shine brightly and emit a resonating sound. The light from that lamp will then spread to the two nearest lamps. The light from that lamp will then shine brightly and emit a resonating sound, spreading to the nearest lamps as well, until the entire area is lit up in a gradation of red and blue.


Mori Building believes that "culture and art" are essential to creating a magnetic city that attracts people from all over the world, and has incorporated cultural facilities into cities to promote a variety of cultural and exchange activities. Meanwhile, in an age where the boundaries between technology and creativity are becoming increasingly blurred, teamLab has created digital artworks that go far beyond conventional wisdom, with the theme of "experimentation and innovation." By teaming up, the two companies will create a new, one-of-a-kind destination and contribute to enhancing the magnetic power of Tokyo as an international city toward 2020 and beyond.