Worlds collide in teamLab’s new Borderless digital art playground in Tokyo

teamLab founder Toshiyuki Inoko at the Bubble Universe: Physical Light, Bubbles Of Light, Wobbling Light, And Environmental Light - One Stroke installation at the art collective's Borderless gallery in Tokyo. ST PHOTO: WALTER SIM
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TOKYO – Digital art collective teamLab has taken the world by storm with its immersive and extremely Instagrammable installations.

But the visionary behind the group, which began as a team of five in 2001, says he had wanted to go beyond a two-dimensional world captured by a lens and inspire people to see what is beyond their screens – even as, ironically, the rise of teamLab has been fuelled by social media.

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