From 24 November 2107 to 30 April 2018, an amazing intersection of technology and imagination, where the Future Park is coming to the Powerhouse Museum from the “ultratechnologists” at teamLab.
Art and technology are set to combine at the Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences, (MAAS) part of the Powerhouse Museum, this Summer - 24 Nov 2017 to 30 April 2018, and it has been developed by an amazing set of people at teamLab.
Dubbed the “Learn & Play! teamLab Future Park”, Time Out London has described the exhibition this way: “You interact with it, change it, manipulate it – and it does the same right back to you.”
It’s a playful and immersive world for kids and adults alike, with teamLab and principal partner, Toyota, highlighting “what is possible when fueling teamwork with technology and drawing from science and design to create art.”
{loadposition alex08}MAAS Director and CEO, Dolla Merrilees, said: “Last summer we welcomed six Egyptian mummies from the British Museum in an exhibition that was enjoyed by over 100,000 visitors. This summer we are excited to invite visitors to build a collective artwork, imagining future worlds the ancient Egyptians could only have dreamed of.
“teamLab is internationally renowned for applying cutting-edge technology to create experiences that elicit wonder and delight and that are different every day.”
Dubbed “a collective of ‘ultratechnologists,’” we are told that “teamLab is one of the most in-demand teams of creatives, whose immersive installations have been sweeping the world with exhibitions currently running in cities across the world including Tokyo, San Francisco, Jakarta, Vancouver, Beijing, Texas and Singapore.”
Setting the scene for us, teamLab say that at its Future Park, “inventive visitors young and old will be swept into jungles of dreamt-up forests, compose symphonies, build cities and invent animals and people of the future. Future Park is a dynamic space for people to let their imaginations run wild and take it a step further by seeing them come to life and interact with the imaginings of other visitors.”
Perhaps it is an early version of a type of Westworld… except it is tech world, and available to interact with as it interacts back with you in just a few weeks time.
Learn & Play! teamLab Future Park will be made up of eight interactive installations, each designed to constantly evolve in real time as it responds to human interactions with the art.
- Make music with Light Ball Orchestra as balls small and large, suspended and rolling connect with each other to create a live composition. This ever-changing symphony is combined with a light show as the balls change colour as they interact.
- Graffiti Nature - Mountains and Valleys creates a digital environment to be populated by visitor drawings of animals and plants. Witness a colourful world grow from a shared vision of what was, what is and what could be.
- Sketch Town invites visitors to populate a town of their collective imagination by drawing vehicles, buildings and public places. As Sketch Town grows its creators can interact with the townscape they have designed.
- Hopscotch for Geniuses gives a new, digital twist to one of the world’s oldest games. Part interactive dance, part traditional hopscotch, this is a game that will keep people on their toes.
- A Table Where Little People Live is a busy table populated by tiny characters rushing about their business. Change their paths, create obstacles or interactions with other little people, all by using objects to change the table where little people live.
- Sketch People as you see them, as you want to see them, however you can imagine them. Sketched people will be scanned and entered into a digital world to form relationships and interact.
- Sketch Town Papercraft takes visitor drawings and scans them into 3D sketches that can be printed as 3D models.
- In Connecting! Block Town the digital meets the physical as cars, trains, boats and planes crisscross through projections and change their course when intercepted by building blocks controlled by visitors acting as air traffic controllers, traffic managers and coast guards.
EXHIBITION DETAILS
- What: Learn & Play! teamLab Future Park
- When: 24 November 2017 – 30 April 2018
- Where: Powerhouse Museum, 500 Harris Street, Ultimo NSW 2007
- Price for Adults, Concession, Children, Family Pass to be announced, Kids under 4 will be able to attend free, with the advice that you can “pre-book and save.”