Modern art goes high-tech

A Tokyo art group is drawing huge crowds with immersive shows, Deng Zhangyu reports.

Since opening in June, Tokyo-based art collective team-Lab's immersive shows - Borderless at Tokyo's Mori building and TeamLab Planets at a temporarily-built art space just a 10-minute drive from the Mori building - have attracted about 1.7 million visitors from across the world.

Every day, visitors wait in long lines for admission to experience an immersive world that has been created by an art group comprising engineers, architects, mathematicians, programmers and computer graphic specialists.