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The Star
03-06-2025
- Entertainment
- The Star
TeamLab is lighting up the world, one city at a time
There's a reason millions of visitors are obsessed with teamLab's art exhibitions: where else can you spend an otherwise normal afternoon gazing into an infinity of crystal stars, chasing digital crows from room to room, or making flowers grow with the touch of a single, god-like finger? TeamLab, an international collective of mathematicians, engineers and artists, emerged in 2001, gaining traction with an early staging by artist Takashi Murakami. Since then, the group, whose works aim to 'navigate the confluence of art, science, technology and the natural world', has expanded globally, with permanent and temporary exhibitions in Asia, Europe and the United States. Last year, teamLab Planets in Tokyo, welcomed 2.5 million people, setting a Guinness record as the most visited museum by a single art group. TeamLab currently has 12 exhibitions in Japan, as well as sites in places like Singapore, Abu Dhabi (United Arab Emirates), Macao, Miami (US), New York (US), and Jeddah (Saudi Arabia). Installations or museums are planned for Hamburg (Germany), Utrecht (the Netherlands), Kyoto (Japan), and more. In 'Sketch' installations at several sites you use crayons to colour in a creature, which then comes alive as a projection on the walls and the floor. — teamlab These sensory playgrounds couldn't be farther from a sterile white art gallery. You may find yourself wading through a pool (yes, actual water) with digital koi fish or playing with streaming whirlpools of pixels. Sometimes the installations are set outdoors in dark rice paddies, as in Izura, Japan, or use strings of live orchids that rise and drop depending on your path, as at the Planets museum. In Sketch installations at several sites you use crayons to colour in a creature, which then comes alive as a projection on the walls and the floor. The colours, textures and lighting are ripe for Instagramming, leading some critics to dismiss the installations as art candy or a tourist trap. But they also explore bigger themes of self, boundaries, interconnection, and life and death in the natural world. They lead you on a psychedelic journey without taking actual psychedelics. Here are eight places around the globe where you can get a taste of the trippy and thrilling teamLab experience. Tokyo (Japan) Be ready to take off your shoes and get wet at teamLab Planets (admission: ¥3,800 to ¥5,400/RM112 to RM159), which opened new rooms in January. This linear interactive space, in the city's Toyosu district, features elements like trampolines, mirrors, water and garden rooms. Inside, you can peer into a crystal starscape, wander through an immersive flower garden and wade with fluorescent koi. The new Catching And Collecting Extinct Forest installation allows you to catch and release digital endangered animals while learning about them on an integrated app. In the Sketch space, you can colour your own creatures to be projected into the exhibit, and then in the Factory, buy a T-shirt with your creature on it. Even Emptiness Table, the museum's vegan ramen restaurant, offers an ever-changing digital art experience. Visitors at teamLab Borderless at the Mori Building Digital Art Museum in Tokyo. The group's psychedelic sensory playgrounds of light, sound, stars, bubbles, birds and more are expanding around the globe, dazzling millions of visitors a year. — Shiho Fukada/The New York Times Borderless (¥3,600 to ¥5,600/RM106 to RM165), teamLab's other major Tokyo museum in the Azabudai Hills district, is a non-linear series of rooms to explore with no map and no directions. Clustered around a central waterfall, the rooms splinter off, with themes and motifs like bubbles and digital crows that fly from one installation to another. Take as long as you want to feel your way through. At the attached teahouse, enjoy the infinitely blooming flowers projected into your cup. New York (US) Generated by a computer programme using data points influenced by the season, sunrise and sunset, Continuous Life And Death At The Now Of Eternity II (free) is a digital garden of seasonal blossoms such as chrysanthemums, azaleas and hydrangeas. The evolving garden, which never repeats but echoes the real weather conditions outside, is displayed on a roughly 8.2m by 4.8m public screen in the lobby of 1 Vanderbilt, a skyscraper next door to Grand Central Terminal. The work, which dominates a route frequented by commuters, seems designed to be viewed consistently by the same people across seasons and years. Miami, Florida (US) Between Life And Non-Life (US$32/RM136), part of the immersive Superblue Miami museum, explores growth and regeneration by inviting visitors to interact with digital flowers, vines and water on the walls and floor amid pulsating ambient music. Touch the wall, then step back and quietly watch the plants grow, die and be washed away, only to begin the cycle again. For an extra charge, visitors can also walk through teamLab's Massless Clouds Between Sculpture And Life exhibit, a space filled with floating, fluffy masses of cloud-like suds. Superblue also features spaces by artists like Es Devlin and James Turrell. The teamLab group's psychedelic sensory playgrounds of light, sound, stars, bubbles, birds and more are expanding around the globe, dazzling millions of visitors a year. — AFP Izura, Japan Hidden Traces Of Rice Terraces , a nighttime-only outdoor project (¥2,400/RM71), 'explores how nature can become art' by using digital technology to avoid harming the installation's natural environment of abandoned rice fields in a forest by the sea. Lanterns guide visitors as they trace the borders of rice terraces along a mirror-like path of water while projected light and music create an ethereal effect using the trees, waves and terrain. In a forest space, beams of light shoot past like a long-exposure photo of fireflies. On a beach installation, when the waves rise, projected flowers bloom, symbolising the breath of life. The site, about 150 minutes by train northeast of Tokyo, sits near a hot spring hotel, where you can extend the otherworldly teamLab experience with a hot soak amid the installations (rooms start at ¥19,177/RM566). Singapore Surrounding the centrepiece 40m Jewel Rain Vortex waterfall inside Changi Airport, the living Resonating Forest – Shiseido Forest Valley (free) shines and dims, with individual coloured lights illuminating each tree as if it's breathing. The lights change tone depending on the tree's elevation and spread to the nearby trees, adapting as travellers pass. Digital Light Canvas (S$8.55/RM28) at the Marina Bay Sands hotel, echoes the Jewel Rain Vortex, but with crystal lights acting as the water. As in other teamLab locations, visitors can hand-colour creatures, but here they are projected onto the floor below the simulated waterfall. Abu Dhabi (UAE) TeamLab Phenomena, a white, undulating waterfront museum (150 dirhams/RM174), sits alongside Louvre Abu Dhabi and the forthcoming Guggenheim Abu Dhabi in the Saadiyat Cultural District. The rotating installations inside, all linked to the theme 'environmental phenomena', include interactive whirlpools simulating the ones found in Japan, a room full of moving beams of light that converge to create giant sculptures, and floating metallic eggs that respond to a wading visitor's touch with sound. In one space, Levitation Void , a black sphere hovering at the centre of a red-lit room moves in response to visitors. – ©2025 Lisa Lucas/The New York Times Company This article originally appeared in The New York Times.
New Straits Times
27-05-2025
- New Straits Times
Housewife loses over RM100,000 to online job scam
DUNGUN: A housewife lost RM112,206 after being duped by a syndicate offering a non-existent job. Dungun police chief Superintendent Maizura Abdul Kadir said the 27-year-old victim saw a job offer advertised by a handicraft company on Facebook on May 19 and contacted the suspect via the Messenger application before providing her details for registration purposes. "The suspect told the victim to make a payment of RM100 as an initial assignment investment. After which she was added to a WhatsApp group which offered huge commissions for every assignment," she said in a statement today. Maizura said the victim then made 28 cash transactions into 10 different bank accounts, totalling RM112,206, using her savings. She only realised she had been scammed when the suspect refused to refund her, claiming the company's account had been frozen. "The victim lodged a police report yesterday and the case is being investigated under Section 420 of the Penal Code," she said.
The Star
27-05-2025
- The Star
Housewife loses over RM100,000 in online job scam
DUNGUN: A housewife lost RM112,206 after being duped by a syndicate offering a non-existent job. Dungun OCPD Supt Maizura Abdul Kadir said the 27-year-old victim saw a job offer advertised by a handicraft company on Facebook on May 19 and contacted the suspect on Messenger, providing her details for registration purposes. "The suspect told the victim to make a payment of RM100 as an initial assignment investment. After that, she was added to a WhatsApp group which offered huge commissions for every assignment,' Supt Maizura said in a statement on Tuesday (May 27). She added that the victim then made 28 cash transactions into 10 different bank accounts totalling RM112,206 from her savings. The victim realised she had been scammed when the suspect refused to issue a refund, claiming that the company's account had been frozen. "She then lodged a police report yesterday (Monday, May 26) and the case is being investigated under Section 420 of the Penal Code,' Supt Maizura added. – Bernama
The Sun
27-05-2025
- The Sun
Housewife loses over RM100,000 to online job scam
DUNGUN: A housewife lost RM112,206 after being duped by a syndicate offering a non-existent job. Dungun police chief Supt Maizura Abdul Kadir said the 27-year-old victim saw a job offer advertised by a handicraft company on Facebook on May 19 and contacted the suspect on the Messenger application before providing her details for registration purposes. 'The suspect told the victim to make a payment of RM100 as an initial assignment investment. After which she was added to a WhatsApp group which offered huge commissions for every assignment,' she said in a statement today. Maizura said the victim then made 28 cash transactions into 10 different bank accounts totalling RM112,206 using her savings before realising that she had been scammed when the suspect refused to make a refund by claiming that the company's account had been frozen. 'The victim lodged a police report yesterday and the case is being investigated under Section 420 of the Penal Code,' she said.
Borneo Post
19-05-2025
- Borneo Post
GOF Sarawak seizes RM1.84 mln in illegal timber, protected animals in eight operations statewide
The timber found at the location believed to be used as a timber processing area in Sri Aman KUCHING (May 19): The General Operations Force (GOF) Sarawak Brigade has successfully seized various types of timber, totally-protected animals and other illicit goods in eight separate operations conducted between May 13 and 18, estimated to be worth RM1.84 million. In a statement today, Sarawak GOF Brigade deputy commander ACP Rosdi Inai said the biggest haul was made during an operation carried out on May 15 at 11am by the Intelligence Branch of GOF Sri Aman Battalion 23. 'The raid was conducted at a location in Sri Aman believed to be used as an illegal timber processing premises without valid permits. 'During the raid, the team found 451 pieces of timber of various sizes as well as seized a wood storage premises and three units of wood processing machines – all of which amounted to RM1.07 million. 'The seized items were handed over to the Sarawak Timber Industry Development Corporation (Pusaka) for further action,' he said, adding that the case is being investigated under Section 5A(1) of the Sarawak Timber Industry Development Act 1973. Some of the totally-protected birds found during an operation conducted in Bau. In another raid conducted on May 13 at 11am, he said a team from GOF Sarawak Brigade alongside a team from Sarawak Forestry Corporation (SFC) raided a premises in Bau, believed to be made as a storage unit to cage various totally-protected animals. The team apprehended a 42-year-old woman, and found 15 totally-protected birds and 8 tortoises amounting to RM112,885 during the raid. The arrested individual and the seized items were handed over to SFC for further action and investigation under Section 29 of the Wildlife Ordinance 1998. The GOF then proceeded to raid six other premises throughout Sarawak, four of which involving protected animals and their parts, resulting in an estimated RM658,466 in confiscated illicit goods. Meanwhile, throughout the Op Taring period as of May 19, GOF Sarawak recorded a total of 179 cases, seized a total of RM236 million, and arrested a total of 283 individuals (211 locals and 72 foreigners), and seized 175 vehicles.
