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This Digital Aquarium Installation Is Powered by Fish

Just keep swimming.
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Unbeknownst to them, the fish swimming through a Japanese aquarium are part of a digital garden projected into their tanks. In Flowers and Fish, illuminated "floating" flowers burst into a cloud of petals when the swimmers glide through, creating a spectacle of randomly-generated flora. "The art that is created in one moment will disappear in the next, never to be seen again," writes teamLab, the Japanese digital studio behind projection-mapped paddy fieldshanging vine forests, and more recently, Flowers and Fish. Their installations often rely on interaction from visitors, either through apps or hands-on, but the Enoshima Aquarium’s Big Sagami Bay Tank's vibrant ecosystem takes the spotlight this time.

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Flowers and Fish will be on display at Enoshima Aquarium’s Big Sagami Bay Tank from July 18 through December 25, 2015. See more of teamLab's work on their website.

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