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Memory of Waves
teamLab
This space features Memory of Waves, an immersive digital installation by the internationally acclaimed art collective teamLab.
Founded in 2001, teamLab is an interdisciplinary group of artists, engineers, architects, programmers, and researchers. Their collaborative practice spans art, science, and technology, offering radically new ways of seeing, feeling, and experiencing art.
Memory of Waves is a large-scale animation composed in the form of a six-panel digital folding screen. At its center is the image of the wave—not as a static or symbolic motif, but as a living, generative form.
This wave is not drawn by hand, but created through the simulation of tens of thousands of water particles. teamLab calculates the trajectories of these particles and renders the movement of waves along their flow—lines that recall the expressive ink strokes of East Asian painting.
The result is a continuously shifting oceanic rhythm—waves endlessly forming and dissolving, visually enacting the flow of time and the cycles of nature.
The visual language of the work connects deeply with the brush-line techniques of waves and clouds found in traditional East Asian art. By fusing this aesthetic heritage with cutting-edge digital technology, teamLab reinterprets the past through a language of the future.
Memory of Waves also resonates closely with the theme of this Biennale, Neighbors of Civilization – somewhere over the yellow sea. It evokes the shared sensibilities of nature and ink painting among East Asian cultural spheres surrounding the Yellow Sea—reconnected here through the lens of contemporary digital experience.
Rather than a static image to be observed, this work invites you to stay, to breathe with it—to experience time not as a concept, but as a bodily rhythm.
Through Memory of Waves, teamLab dissolves the boundaries between memory and sensation, tradition and technology, individual and collective—offering a compelling response to what contemporary ink can become.
Founded in 2001, teamLab is an interdisciplinary group of artists, engineers, architects, programmers, and researchers. Their collaborative practice spans art, science, and technology, offering radically new ways of seeing, feeling, and experiencing art.
Memory of Waves is a large-scale animation composed in the form of a six-panel digital folding screen. At its center is the image of the wave—not as a static or symbolic motif, but as a living, generative form.
This wave is not drawn by hand, but created through the simulation of tens of thousands of water particles. teamLab calculates the trajectories of these particles and renders the movement of waves along their flow—lines that recall the expressive ink strokes of East Asian painting.
The result is a continuously shifting oceanic rhythm—waves endlessly forming and dissolving, visually enacting the flow of time and the cycles of nature.
The visual language of the work connects deeply with the brush-line techniques of waves and clouds found in traditional East Asian art. By fusing this aesthetic heritage with cutting-edge digital technology, teamLab reinterprets the past through a language of the future.
Memory of Waves also resonates closely with the theme of this Biennale, Neighbors of Civilization – somewhere over the yellow sea. It evokes the shared sensibilities of nature and ink painting among East Asian cultural spheres surrounding the Yellow Sea—reconnected here through the lens of contemporary digital experience.
Rather than a static image to be observed, this work invites you to stay, to breathe with it—to experience time not as a concept, but as a bodily rhythm.
Through Memory of Waves, teamLab dissolves the boundaries between memory and sensation, tradition and technology, individual and collective—offering a compelling response to what contemporary ink can become.