Description: We produced a video work that serves as new content for the Japan Science and Technology Agency's Miraikan signature exhibit, "Geo-Cosmos." Based on the hypothesis proposed by atmospheric chemist Paul Crutzen that the strata formed by human activity should be positioned as a new geological epoch called the "Anthropocene," the work provides an overview of Earth from its birth to the present. Using a wide range of techniques, including special effects, animation, and CG, and set to music by env.Roy and U-zhaan, it playfully presents the difficult theme: “What will our era leave behind in Earth’s history?”

Special exhibition held at Fukuoka City Science Museum in the summer of 2018. Introduced the inner workings of various living creatures and objects through “sukeru” (to see through / to make transparent). Despite being its first original special exhibition, it drew approximately 85,000 visitors. Currently touring Japan, with requests to host it coming in from cities across the country. Official website: https://sukesuke.jp/

Inside the spheres, there are myriad lights intermingled: lights with tangible material existence, large, strong lights like soap bubbles, huge, weak, jiggly lights like lumps of jelly, and lights generated by the surrounding environment. Within the spheres, some lights keep moving while others remain completely still. The light in each sphere cannot generate everything on its own; the other spheres become the environment, and the environment generates the myriad lights within each sphere. Each sphere becomes part of the environment that generates the light of the other spheres, and the phenomena created by the environment are the existence of the work. Also, except for the material light, such as the soap-bubble-like light and the jelly-like light that appears strongly within spheres at higher positions, the light does not physically exist inside the spheres; it exists in perception. And when it exists in perception, it is existence. When a person stops near a sphere and remains still, the nearest sphere shines brightly and resounds with a tone, and the light propagates from that sphere to the nearest sphere. The propagated light continues on to the next nearest sphere, and so on. The light always continues only to the nearest sphere, passing through each sphere only once, becoming a single light path that traverses all the spheres. And the light born from oneself and the light born from others intersect. The seemingly random arrangement of the spheres is a configuration in which the light generated by people’s presence continues from sphere to sphere, a configuration for the beauty of continuity itself. Specifically, the positions of the spheres in space are mathematically determined so that, when lines are drawn from each sphere to the nearest sphere in three-dimensional space, they form a single connected line that can be drawn in one stroke, with the same start and end point (unicursal), and so that the line, which becomes the path of light, is beautiful. As a result, although the light of the spheres responding to people only propagates to the nearest sphere, it passes through all the spheres only once, like a one-stroke drawing. At the same time, it intersects with the light generated by others during the same period. This is a work that expresses the beauty of continuity in the light created when people interact with spheres in free spaces. Work page: https://www.teamlab.art/jp/ew/bubbleuniverse-azabudai/tokyo/?autoplay=true

Your brain is like a field of flowers.