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Tokyo unveils world's 1st digital psychedelic art museum without guide maps

Without all the lights, the museum space would be a bunch of empty halls with black walls and carpeted floors

Owing to projection-mapping technology, the artworks react to movement and touch, inviting visitors to imagine they possess new superpowers
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Owing to projection-mapping technology, the artworks react to movement and touch, inviting visitors to imagine they possess new superpowers

Bloomberg
Touch, please. What’s being billed as the world’s first all-digital museum is part art gallery, part amusement park and for some, part haunted house.
 
Some things typically found in an art museum are missing: There are no guide maps, no descriptions, and no signs warning viewers to keep their hands off the art work. In fact, there are no works of art — in the usual sense of paintings or objects behind glass cases.

At the MORI Building Digital Art Museum in Tokyo, a collaboration between the developer and art collective TeamLab, light and space is the art. Visitors navigate