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National Museum of Singapore unveils 170m-long digital interactive forest installation
POSTED 21 Dec 2016 . BY Tom Anstey
The design is inspired by the 19th century collection collected by William Farquhar
The National Museum of Singapore has debuted a unique digital exhibit turning 69 drawings into a single giant animated interactive illustration.
Using sensors set up in the newly-refurbished Glass Rotunda, the installation by Japanese art collective teamLab allows visitors to interact with the flora and fauna.
Titled Story of the Forest, the digital piece, which is 15m (49ft) in height and 170m (558ft) long, is based on the museum’s watercolour collection and mimics the dense tropical rainforests of Southeast Asia. The design is inspired by the 19th century collection collected by William Farquhar – the first Commandant of Singapore.
Starting at the top of the three-storey structure, visitors enter through a dark room projecting falling petals across the ceiling, before walking down a 144-metre (472-foot) spiral path with animals running through the intricately-designed forest. The exhibition ends in a room raining petals. As visitors approach the petals they immediately sprout, growing in seconds into towering trees.
The exhibition also introduces augmented reality to the experience, with users downloading a free app to find animals, pointing their smart device at the creatures as they appear in the digital forest to register them.
"Due to the massive size and scale of the Glass Rotunda, this is by far the most challenging digital artwork installation created by teamLab to date," said studio founder Toshiyuki Inoko.
"Our team was immensely inspired by the intricate drawings from the William Farquhar Collection while conceptualising this ground-breaking installation, and we are excited to present it to visitors from Singapore and around the world here at the National Museum.”
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National Museum of Singapore unveils 170m-long digital interactive forest installation
POSTED 21 Dec 2016 . BY Tom Anstey
The design is inspired by the 19th century collection collected by William Farquhar
The National Museum of Singapore has debuted a unique digital exhibit turning 69 drawings into a single giant animated interactive illustration.
Using sensors set up in the newly-refurbished Glass Rotunda, the installation by Japanese art collective teamLab allows visitors to interact with the flora and fauna.
Titled Story of the Forest, the digital piece, which is 15m (49ft) in height and 170m (558ft) long, is based on the museum’s watercolour collection and mimics the dense tropical rainforests of Southeast Asia. The design is inspired by the 19th century collection collected by William Farquhar – the first Commandant of Singapore.
Starting at the top of the three-storey structure, visitors enter through a dark room projecting falling petals across the ceiling, before walking down a 144-metre (472-foot) spiral path with animals running through the intricately-designed forest. The exhibition ends in a room raining petals. As visitors approach the petals they immediately sprout, growing in seconds into towering trees.
The exhibition also introduces augmented reality to the experience, with users downloading a free app to find animals, pointing their smart device at the creatures as they appear in the digital forest to register them.
"Due to the massive size and scale of the Glass Rotunda, this is by far the most challenging digital artwork installation created by teamLab to date," said studio founder Toshiyuki Inoko.
"Our team was immensely inspired by the intricate drawings from the William Farquhar Collection while conceptualising this ground-breaking installation, and we are excited to present it to visitors from Singapore and around the world here at the National Museum.”
The Glass Rotunda reopens after a two-year closure. It is now home to Story of the Forest and Singapore, Very Old Tree – a special exhibition featuring photos by local photographer Robert Zhao.
Singapore's National Gallery offers a walk through history using art POSTED 27 Jan 2016. BY Tom Anstey The exhibition designers of Singapore’s recently relaunched National Gallery have laid out the idea
behind the concept – a walk through time using the medium of art to tell the story of Singapore and
southeast Asia.
Work starts on South Korea's US$1.8bn Resorts World Jeju development POSTED 19 Feb 2015. BY Tom Anstey A groundbreaking ceremony has been held for South Korea’s US$1.8bn (€1.6bn, £1.2bn)
Resorts World Jeju, which is aiming to rival its Singaporean counterpart at Resorts World
Sentosa.
Patmos Aktis, a Luxury Collection Resort and Spa, has opened in Greece, with a renovated and
rebranded wellness offering called Ansana Wellness and Spa.
The Mauna Kea Beach Hotel, an Autograph Collection property in Hawaii, US, has opened its
22,000 sq ft indoor-outdoor Spa at Mauna Kea as the final step in the property’s overall
renovation, which has cost more than US$180 million (€166 million, £140 mill
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it will host the Good Spa Guide Awards 2026 during an event on 16 November at Sopwell House
Hotel in St Albans, UK.
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