{"id":3584,"date":"2026-10-01T09:05:41","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T13:05:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.echoartfoundation.com\/in-chicago-teamlab-threads-touch-time-and-consequence-at-the-smart-museum-of-art\/"},"modified":"2026-10-01T09:05:41","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T13:05:41","slug":"in-chicago-teamlab-threads-touch-time-and-consequence-at-the-smart-museum-of-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.echoartfoundation.com\/es\/in-chicago-teamlab-threads-touch-time-and-consequence-at-the-smart-museum-of-art\/","title":{"rendered":"In Chicago, teamLab threads touch, time, and consequence at the Smart Museum of Art"},"content":{"rendered":"

At the Smart Museum of Art in Chicago, teamLab: Everything Exists in Infinite Continuity<\/em> unfolds as an environment where perception is stretched and boundaries give way. One of several new commissions, \u001826\u0019s \u001cSea of Darkness, Memory Shining from the Depths\u001d casts a billowing, veil-like projection across a patchwork wall of hammered copper, its dark, diaphanous motion slipping over the glimmering metal like a curtain caught in a draft.<\/p>\n

Founded by Toshiyuki Inoko<\/strong> in 2001, teamLab is an international art collective comprising hundreds of artists, animators, musicians, mathematicians, developers, engineers, and more. Long invested in the intersection of art, science, and technology, the group has been an early adopter of digital tools for experiential work and continues to build installations with basic software and programs widely available to the public. Their interactive, immersive environments probe the limits of human perception and imagination, sustaining a decidedly human approach without eschewing the digital.<\/p>\n

Touch and light as compositional forces<\/h2>\n

\u001cOrder in Chaos\u001d (2026) responds to physical contact, releasing vibrant trajectories of line that race across the floor, walls, and a grid of screens. Riotous and kinetic, the piece, the collective says, \u001cis an attempt to expand painting from a completed image, or a perspective illusion of space, into a spatiotemporal pictorial space that is continuous with the real space.\u001d In another register, \u001cContinuous Life and Death at the Now of Eternity II\u001d syncs itself to its immediate surroundings: while on view in Chicago, the floral work brightens with sunrise and dims at sunset, its onscreen ecosystem shifting as fall turns to winter.<\/p>\n

Irreversibility, preserved<\/h2>\n

The exhibition closes with \u001cThe World of Irreversible Change\u001d (2022), a paneled digital depiction of a tranquil community that is programmed to transform if touched too many times. Excess taps trigger a year-long, irreversible state of war and bloodshed among its inhabitants. Several editions of the work exist, but the iteration at the Smart Museum of Art is the only one still in its original, pristine condition, and it is cordoned off for preservation. During a walkthrough, Inoko emphasized that once conflict begins, the community cannot return to peace; eventually the people die, the metropolis becomes desolate, and, after a few years, shrubs emerge and birdsong returns\u0014but humanity does not.<\/p>\n

teamLab: Everything Exists in Infinite Continuity<\/em> is on view through February 21 at the Smart Museum of Art and also includes \u001cMassless Suns and Dark Suns\u001d (2022-ongoing) and \u001cDissipative Figures \u0013 Human\u001d (2026), alongside \u001cSea of Darkness, Memory Shining from the Depths\u001d (2026) and \u001cOrder in Chaos\u001d (2026).<\/p>\n

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At the Smart Museum of Art in Chicago, teamLab: Everything Exists in Infinite Continuity presents new and recent works that respond to touch, daylight, and seasonal change, including a preserved edition of The World of Irreversible Change. The exhibition is on view through February 21.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":3583,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-happening-now"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.echoartfoundation.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.echoartfoundation.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.echoartfoundation.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.echoartfoundation.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.echoartfoundation.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.echoartfoundation.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3584\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.echoartfoundation.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.echoartfoundation.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.echoartfoundation.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.echoartfoundation.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}