Step inside Japan's new teamLab Biovortex Kyoto

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Love it or loathe it, digital art is a feature of our modern creative world. I’m generally in the latter camp for much of the stuff that looks like a screensaver, but done well, it can be a genuinely new form of art experience.

And teamLab – the international art collective that originated in Tokyo 25 years ago – does these immersive art installations brilliantly. But would its latest outpost in Kyoto, which opened in October, be enough to win me over?

Fans of teamLab wax lyrical about its unique pieces, created collaboratively by multi-disciplinary groups of artists, engineers, architects and programmers.

Whether it’s a flutter of butterflies, a column of light that appears as solid as an iceberg, a forest of Murano glass lamps or flowers blooming inside a teacup, each piece is distinct, engaging visitors of all ages in visually and emotionally playful ways.

That’s probably why teamLab Planets Tokyo recently won the World Travel Awards’ prize for Asia’s Leading Tourist Attraction – and it’s hard to imagine the new Kyoto space won’t soon be garnering its own accolades.