Image: Mori Building Digital Art Museum: EPSON teamLab Borderless, Tokyo
A new participatory work called ‘Sketch Ocean’ has opened at teamLab Biovortex Kyoto, where sea creatures drawn by visitors become one-of-a-kind stickers at the ‘Sketch Factory’. The announcement says the activity begins on July 1.
The notice frames the project as part of teamLab’s ongoing digital-art practice, in which viewer input becomes part of the final artwork experience. In this case, the source material indicates that drawings made through ‘Sketch Ocean’ are transformed into individual stickers, extending the work beyond the screen into a physical takeaway object.
teamLab Biovortex Kyoto is presented here as the venue for the new experience, though the source does not provide further institutional details about the site or additional programming. The announcement does, however, make clear that the sticker-making component is tied specifically to ‘Sketch Factory’ at the Kyoto project.
The work fits teamLab’s familiar emphasis on interactivity and transformation, with images made by participants entering a digital system and emerging in a different form. The source material identifies sea creatures as the subject of the drawings, but gives no additional list of species, visual features, or technical description of the installation.
According to the post, the opening date is July 1. No closing date is supplied in the verified material, and no further schedule information is included. The announcement also does not name accompanying events, timed sessions, or booking requirements.
The shared message is brief, but it places ‘Sketch Ocean’ within teamLab’s broader ecosystem of audience-driven digital works, now expanded to a Kyoto presentation. Visitors draw sea creatures, and those drawings become unique stickers at ‘Sketch Factory’ at teamLab Biovortex Kyoto starting July 1.
