Digital nature

The first thing that goes is the map. At teamLab Borderless there is no route, no numbered sequence of rooms. Works of projected light leave their walls and drift into the next space, and a flock of digital birds may follow you from one chamber to another.

What is a picture when it has no frame, no fixed wall, and no single moment of completion?

It would be easy to file this under spectacle. But the better question is the one the place keeps asking: if an image responds to the people in front of it, where does the artwork end and the audience begin?

It is the opposite instinct to Ando's buried silence across town — and yet both are arguments about presence: one made of concrete, one made of light.