data.tron - Ryoji Ikeda
11 JULY - 15 AUGUST / Gallery 1
How many points are there in a line?
What is the number of numbers?
How can we verify that the random is random?
Ryoji Ikeda is widely recognized as Japan’s leading electronic composer/artist and is renowned for his acclaimed solo concerts, installations, recordings and collaborative work with international luminaries such as William Forsythe, Toyo Ito and Hiroshi Sugimoto. Working across both visual and sonic media Ikeda explores the ways in which music, time and space are shaped by mathematical methods.
Ikeda’s data.tron installation was produced as part of the of the datamatics project, which is a long-term programme of moving image, sculptural, sound and new media works that use data as their theme and material to explore the ways in which abstracted views of reality - data - are used to encode, understand and control the world. data.tron is an audio-visual installation, where each single pixel of visual image is strictly calculated by mathematical principle, composed from a combination of pure mathematics and the vast sea of data present in the world. These images are projected onto a large screen at an extremely fast rate, up to four times faster than normal film, heightening and intensifying the viewer’s perception and total immersion within the work.
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Co-produced by Le Fresnoy, Studio national des arts contemporains and Forma.
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