Life Survives by the Power of Life
Artist
teamLab
(est. 2001)
Date2011
CultureJapanese
MaterialsDigital animation
DimensionsDuration: 6:23 min.
Credit LineGift of Richard Beleson and Kim Lam Beleson in honor of Joan and M. Glenn Vinson
Object number2015.35
DepartmentContemporary Art
ClassificationsMultimedia
On View
Not on viewTeamlab is an "ultra-technologists group" made up of programmers, mathematicians, architects, animators, web designers, graphic designers, artists, editors, and more. Based in Japan, the group creates works through a collaborative process of "experimentation and innovation," blurring boundaries between art, science, and technology. In teamlab's works, traditional calligraphic forms fuse with anime aesthetics to present a digital world of natural and supernatural imagery. The artists say that their work has been influenced by
the representation of space in traditional Japanese art, in which figures and objects share a single, flattened spatial plane.
the representation of space in traditional Japanese art, in which figures and objects share a single, flattened spatial plane.