August 06, 2021 

“TeamLab: Continuity” at the Asian Art Museum, San Francisco. Photo by Liu Yilin/Xinhua via Getty Images. 

San Francisco’s Asian Art Museum is the first art institution in the U.S. to welcome TeamLab, the ultra-popular Japanese art collective/interactive design corporation that has drawn crowds around the world. The debut of TeamLab’s major series of installations, dubbed “teamLab: Continuity,” is designed to mark a big moment for the Bay Area museum, the first show in its new $103 million, 8,500-square-foot Akiko Yamazaki and Jerry Yang Pavilion. 

“At teamLab: Continuity, you will find yourself immersed in a wondrous ecosystem of lush imagery drawn from nature and East Asian art that dynamically evolves around you. Sumptuous images of inky crows and fluorescent flowers, fluttering butterflies and darting fish propel you to wander, to pause, and to marvel,” said the museum in a statement. Installations have poetic names like Forest of Flowers and People: Lost, Immersed and Reborn and Born From the Darkness a Loving, and Beautiful World, and respond to visitors as they traverse the space. Sketch Ocean, a section of “Continuity” for kids, allows you to color in their own sea creature and then scan it, so that it appears in the animated, underwater world of the show.

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Long story short, it is the art experience like none other,” Asian Art Museum head Jay Xu told KPIX. “It’s most cutting edge, but it’s also deeply rooted in artistic tradition.”

The solo exhibition will present over a dozen teamLab works in the 8,500 square foot space, with vivid imagery dancing between rooms and interacting with one another and with guests in a seamless flow. While surrounded by pulsating and transforming digital projections, the show is focused on experiencing the natural world and finding your place within it. Through this encounter, teamLab founder Toshiyuki Inoko encourages visitors to realize that “everything exists in a long, fragile yet miraculous borderless continuity of life.”

SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) — A dazzling, high-tech exhibit called teamLab: Continuity allows visitors to step into an other-worldly experience, where you can become part of the ever-changing art.