Worlds Unbound: The Art of teamLab

Worlds Unbound: The Art of teamLab is a lavishly illustrated volume that provides a comprehensive overview of the Tokyo-based digital art collective teamLab's artistic vision and achievements from its beginnings to its twentieth anniversary in 2021. The book highlights the remarkable scope of teamLab's groundbreaking art and its fundamental contribution to the field of new media art. The collective, which comprises over 600 individuals in a multidisciplinary collaboration, has attained international fame for its electrifying immersive and interactive installations that transcend boundaries between gallery, public space, and popular entertainment. The book includes an extensive interview with teamLab and addresses the lack of critical appreciation of their work.

Format: Hardback
Length: 390 pages
Publication date: 01 March 2022
Publisher: Intellect Books

In this captivatingly illustrated volume, Laura Lee delves into the world of Tokyo-based digital art collective teamLab, whose mesmerizing and interactive installations have skyrocketed to global fame. The first of its kind, Worlds Unbound: The Art of teamLab offers a comprehensive exploration of teamLab's artistic vision and remarkable achievements, spanning from its inception to its twentieth anniversary in 2021. This groundbreaking art monograph sheds light on the vast scope of teamLab's innovative creations and their fundamental contribution to the emerging field of new media art.

This original and scholarly monograph, the first of its kind, delves into the popularity and success of the digital immersive environments created by teamLab, a Tokyo-based collective, from various perspectives. It also addresses the lack of critical appreciation for their work. The book features an extensive interview with teamLab, which was launched in January 2001 with five members and has since grown to encompass over 600 individuals from diverse disciplines, including engineers, computer graphics animators, mathematicians, graphic designers, architects, artists, and computer programmers.

teamLab's multidisciplinary collaboration has propelled it to international acclaim, as its electrifying installations seamlessly transcend boundaries between gallery spaces, public spaces, and popular entertainment. The collective's remarkable success is evident in press coverage, ticket sales, and a prolific production of immersive exhibitions. In 2018, teamLab opened the MORI Building DIGITAL ART MUSEUM: teamLab Borderless, a massive technological environment in Tokyo that attracted 2.3 million visitors in its inaugural year, setting a world record for the largest annual number of visitors for any single-artist museum. The same year witnessed numerous other high-profile immersive exhibitions, further solidifying teamLab's position as a forefront of digital art.

Weight: 1940g
Dimension: 267 x 218 x 41 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781789384499
Edition number: New ed