Report by : Gan Yung Chyan
/ KUCINTA SETIA
If you have recently passed through Singapore’s Changi Airport at night, check out an interactive light art installation that is on display at the airport.
The work, called Resonating Forest, comes from Japan's popular new media art team teamLab.
The Resonating Forest exhibition is arranged in the Shiseido Forest Valley at Jewel Changi Airport, which is opened officially to the public on 17 April 2019. Designed by Safdie Architects, it has the world's highest indoor waterfall (up to 40 metrers) known as HSBC Rain Vortex and a waterfall around it. The surrounding indoor forest with more than 200 plants is a highlight of the design.
In this interactive device, the trees around the waterfall are illuminated. When people pass nearby, the light from the trees changes colour, and the background music changes as the colour changes. The light of each tree spreads to the surrounding trees, and in the same way, the sound of music continues to spread between the trees. As the height of the tree changes, the pitch of the background sound also changes. In this way, people may be more sensitive than usual to realize that there are other people in the same space.
In fact, this idea appeared in the team's 2014 work “Resonating Trees”. Later, this work was moved to Tokushima Prefecture Cultural Forest Complex Park, Ginza Six Shopping Center in Ginza, Tokyo, and Uzu Jingu Shrine in Oita Prefecture.
The team said that the concept behind the project is that digital technology can turn cities into art without physical changes. They hope that the device will enhance one's awareness of the existence of others in the public domain.
Founded in 2001, teamLab is a team of over-tech experts consisting of around 400 experts including programmers, mathematicians, architects, CG animators, web designers, graphic designers, artists and editors. The Curiosity Daily has reported on them. Natural elements are often the subject of their work: flowers, running water, lizards, flying birds... Their works have strong visual effects and high interactivity, which are popular with the public, but this digitally realized device was considered by some critics as "not art."
This exhibition around HSBC Rain Vortex at Jewel Changi Airport is in cooperation with Shiseido. This is not the first time teamLab has worked with Shiseido. In July 2017, teamLab produced 14 digital works of art in the 172-year-old Miyakoyama Park in Saga Prefecture, Japan, and Shiseido was the co-organizer of the exhibition.
The team also brought in another work, The Reverberant Tree – The Bush Labyrinth, which will be set at the top of the Canopy Park, which is expected to open on 10 June 2019. These two exhibitions are part of the exhibition of the beauty of Shiseido’s “Sense and Knowledge”.
/ KUCINTA SETIA
If you have recently passed through Singapore’s Changi Airport at night, check out an interactive light art installation that is on display at the airport.
The work, called Resonating Forest, comes from Japan's popular new media art team teamLab.
The Resonating Forest exhibition is arranged in the Shiseido Forest Valley at Jewel Changi Airport, which is opened officially to the public on 17 April 2019. Designed by Safdie Architects, it has the world's highest indoor waterfall (up to 40 metrers) known as HSBC Rain Vortex and a waterfall around it. The surrounding indoor forest with more than 200 plants is a highlight of the design.
In this interactive device, the trees around the waterfall are illuminated. When people pass nearby, the light from the trees changes colour, and the background music changes as the colour changes. The light of each tree spreads to the surrounding trees, and in the same way, the sound of music continues to spread between the trees. As the height of the tree changes, the pitch of the background sound also changes. In this way, people may be more sensitive than usual to realize that there are other people in the same space.
In fact, this idea appeared in the team's 2014 work “Resonating Trees”. Later, this work was moved to Tokushima Prefecture Cultural Forest Complex Park, Ginza Six Shopping Center in Ginza, Tokyo, and Uzu Jingu Shrine in Oita Prefecture.
The team said that the concept behind the project is that digital technology can turn cities into art without physical changes. They hope that the device will enhance one's awareness of the existence of others in the public domain.
Founded in 2001, teamLab is a team of over-tech experts consisting of around 400 experts including programmers, mathematicians, architects, CG animators, web designers, graphic designers, artists and editors. The Curiosity Daily has reported on them. Natural elements are often the subject of their work: flowers, running water, lizards, flying birds... Their works have strong visual effects and high interactivity, which are popular with the public, but this digitally realized device was considered by some critics as "not art."
This exhibition around HSBC Rain Vortex at Jewel Changi Airport is in cooperation with Shiseido. This is not the first time teamLab has worked with Shiseido. In July 2017, teamLab produced 14 digital works of art in the 172-year-old Miyakoyama Park in Saga Prefecture, Japan, and Shiseido was the co-organizer of the exhibition.
The team also brought in another work, The Reverberant Tree – The Bush Labyrinth, which will be set at the top of the Canopy Park, which is expected to open on 10 June 2019. These two exhibitions are part of the exhibition of the beauty of Shiseido’s “Sense and Knowledge”.
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