Future World Reflection

Future World Exhibition, located in the Singapore ArtScience Museum, is known as Singapore’s largest permanent digital art gallery. It aims to create an environment that allows visitors to immerse in art and science and to explore the possibilities of combining technology, art, and nature. There are a total of 16 cutting-edge installations in the exhibition where visitors can interact and play with them. The future world was done by a group of ultratechnologists called teamLab, who tend to explore the relationship between humans and nature, and between oneself and the world through art.

The whole exhibition provides multiples ways of interaction between the visitors and the artworks, including body movement, physical touching, drawing and so on. It is a fantastic place to get in touch with cutting-edge
technologies for both adults and children. During the tour, visitors can explore the relationship between humans and nature. For example, in the first artwork, visitors can see the change of four seasons in one tour.

The Sketch Piston was interesting to play with. The visitors can create small cute animals by tapping and constraint their path by drawing lines. The combination of animals and the city in the whole picture also explores
the way that humans and nature interact with each other.

Through the whole exhibition, the one that impressed me most is the Crystal Universe, which use over 170,000 LED lights to create a space looks like a universe. Visitors are able to walk inside the space and immerse themselves into the astonishing light show which gives them a sense of being surrounded by stars. The use of mirrors on the ground expands the whole space and I really felt like walking inside an endless place when I
first go in. The design of a curved path also helps provide a feeling of endless space as the visitors cannot see the other side when they walked into the center. The light show and the sound effects associated so well that create an atmosphere of mystery. Besides immersing into space physically, the visitors are also allowed to control the light show by the panel next to space or by downloading a mobile app. After researching about this artwork, I found out that the visitors’ movement can also affect the performance of the light particles, which is another way to interact with the artwork.

In all, during this field trip, I was impressed by the different ways that technology can combine with art and the ways that people can interact with the artwork.

Author: Xiao Sijia

NTU IEM YEAR1 Student

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