teamLab to Open Immersive Digital Art Museum in New York in 2019

The Japanese art collective teamLab, founded in 2001 by engineer Toshiyuki Inoko and composed of artists, programmers, engineers, mathematicians, architects, and animators, will open a new digital art museum in New York in summer 2019. The museum will be located in a 4,600-square-meter warehouse at Industry City in Brooklyn's Sunset Park, with an 11-year lease signed a month ago, according to the Observer. The project is supported by Pace Gallery, which represents teamLab in New York. Pace Gallery stated it is working closely with teamLab to facilitate an ambitious, immersive, long-term exhibition in the space. Takumi Nomoto, head of teamLab's creative office, said he chose New York as the best city for more people to visit their digital museum. The New York museum will feature installations currently on display in Tokyo, including 'Planets,' a labyrinth of dark rooms where motion sensors trigger kaleidoscopic light projections, and visitors walk barefoot to feel different floor textures. Another work, 'Floating in the Falling Universe of Flowers,' uses mirrors and digital light projections to immerse visitors among falling cherry blossom petals. Nomoto described the piece as a memento mori, showing that time never stops and life is precious. The museum follows the success of teamLab's MORI Building DIGITAL ART MUSEUM teamLab Borderless, which opened in Tokyo in June 2018.