Sketch Aquarium - Interactive Exhibit at the Asian Art Museum

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In an effort to introduce everyone to Asian culture and art, the Asian Art Museum maintains several exhibits that showcase its collection of over 18,000 Asian artworks. These exhibits include the institution’s two ongoing exhibits, Liu Jianhua: Collected Letters and teamLab: Sketch Aquarium.

An interactive digital experience, Sketch Aquarium was designed by teamLab, an art collective founded in 2001 in Tokyo, Japan. The collective consists of architects, engineers, artists, programmers, and mathematicians who seek to find the connection between the natural world, art, and design. The collective’s other major exhibition, Continuity, is scheduled to open at the museum’s Akiko Yamazaki and Jerry Yang Pavilion in May 2020.

Sketch Aquarium is available at the Shriram Experiential Learning Center. Participants have the opportunity to color their own sea creatures. Using teamLab’s technology, each drawing is animated and projected onto the room’s walls. This creates a collaborative art piece that increases in size over time. The display is also interactive, and lets museum guests touch a virtual bag of food to “feed” the fish in the aquarium and interact with them as they swim.