Once upon a teamLab

In Mountain of Flowers and People, the seasons change gradually across the installation space. The cycle of growth and decay repeats itself in perpetuity. If a person stays still, the flowers surrounding them grow and bloom abundantly. If viewers touch or step on the flowers, plants shed their petals, wither and die all at once. One key aspect to teamLab's offering is that the film is not a prerecorded animation, nor on loop, but rendered in real time by a computer program. Again, interaction and immersion on the part of the viewer causes continuous change in the cycle of the artwork; previous visual states can never be replicated and will never reoccur in the same way. Art doesn't just replicate nature; it becomes second nature.

And then there's the impressive Expanding Three-Dimensional Existence in Transforming Space, in which the arena is filled with orbs of free-floating light. The space's shape is determined by the collection of floating spheres, and changes according to people's actions (pushing or colliding). Depending on the degree of entanglement of the orbs, and wind and pressure changes, the shape of the space itself will change, with empty spaces becoming high density and spheres rising to the ceiling all at once. All of it is in 11 different colours based on Japanese silk and the effects of light on nature.