Generative Art Timeline · Chapter 10: On-Chain Era (2020s)
2020
INTANGIBLE FORMS by Shohei Fujimoto

This immersive, audiovisual exhibition was Fujimoto’s first solo show in North America, featuring over nine real-time, light-based installations powered by choreographed kinetic lasers, strobes, haze and moving lights. The work indicated a growing interest in immersive generative installations along with teamLab and Refik Anadol. The installations explored the universal connections between all living beings, revealing—as cybernetics did—the intricate and invisible systems that shape our reality. Set against a meditative soundscape inspired by the quiet of Shinto shrines, INTANGIBLE FORMS consists of hundreds of lasers algorithmically manipulated with the open-source toolkit openFrameworks to create the illusion of objects in space, harkening back to the roots of digital art—lumino-kinetic installation.
Text by Peter Bauman. Generative Art Timeline, Le Random, fact-checked September 2026.
Sources
People
Refik Anadol, Shohei Fujimoto, Zach Lieberman
Movements
light art, Lumino-Kinetic Art, Audiovisual Performance, Real-Time Art
Filed under
- Ideas
- immersion, Immersive Art, Installation Art, light art, Lumino-Kinetic Art, Shinto
- Technologies
- cybernetics, laser, open source, openFrameworks
- People
- Refik Anadol, Shohei Fujimoto, Zach Lieberman
- Works
- Intangible Form
- Organisations
- Solo Show, teamLab
- Places
- North America
Related moments
- 2020 · Composition by teamLab
- 2001 · teamLab Formed
- 2005 · Zach Lieberman releases OpenFrameworks v0.01
Echoes across time
- 2005 · Atom by Christopher Bauder and Robert Henke
- 1991 · Fleischmann, Monika/Strauss, Wolfgang: Home of the Brain, virtual reality installation, 1989-1990
- 1969 · International Psytech Art exhibition – Electromagica ’69
Le Random editorials
- Shohei Fujimoto on Remembering Space, Peter Bauman, May 4, 2026
- The Zach Lieberman Commission, Peter Bauman, August 30, 2023
- Zach Lieberman on the Resonance of Generative Art, Peter Bauman, August 2, 2023
- Standout Artwork of 2025, Le Random & guests, December 15, 2025
Le Random podcast
- Timeline Ch 10—On-Chain Era (2020s) with Erick Calderon, Lauren Lee McCarthy, Itzel Yard & Rafael Lozano-Hemmer — listen with transcript on Le Random (02 Sep 2024, 63 min). Chapter 10’s episode. Apple Podcasts · Spotify