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Ryoji Ikeda

“On-screen data-streams, an unremitting flow of zeros and ones, created a witty and mesmerising effect and coalesced with the sound to justify claims of synaesthesia … datamatics showed Ikeda at the height of his powers, building on his own unique and unmistakable artistic language.” – The Wire

Using pure data as a source for sound and visuals, datamatics is a performance work by Ryoji Ikeda that combines abstract and mimetic presentations of matter, time and space in a powerful and breathtakingly accomplished work.

Ryoji Ikeda's datamatics series is an art project that explores the potential to perceive the invisible multi-substance of data that permeates our world. Projecting dynamic, computer-generated imagery - in paired down black and white with striking colour accents, Ikeda's intense yet minimal graphic renderings of data progress through multiple dimensions. From 2D sequences of patterns derived from hard drive errors and studies of software code, the imagery transforms into dramatic, rotating views of the universe in 3D, whilst the final scenes add a further dimension as four-dimensional mathematical processing opens up spectacular and seemingly infinite vistas.

A powerful and hypnotic soundtrack reflects the imagery through a meticulous layering of sonic components to produce immense and apparently boundless acoustic spaces.


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Previous presentations

2012

WWW, Tokyo, Japan Kyoto Experiment 2012, Kyoto, Japan Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, Waterloo, Canada Teatro 25 de Mayo, Buenos Aires, Argentina MONA, Tasmania, Australia

2011

Melos-Ethos Festival, Bratislava, Slovakia Latitude Festival, Suffolk, UK Electron festival, Geneva, Switzerland SPILL Festival, Barbican, London, UK MaerzMusik Festival, Berlin, Germany Palazzo Grassi, Venice, Italy PuSh Festival, Goldcorp Centre for the Arts, Vancouver, Canada

2010

Teatro Della Pergola, Florence, Italy French Institute Alliance Française, New York, USA Second Nature, Aix-en-Provence, France Concertbouw Brugge, Bruges, Belgium Biennale Musiques en Scene, Lyon, France

2009

Pompidou Metz, Metz, France Grec 09, Barcelona, Spain ON-OFF Experiences in Live Image, Itaú Cultural, Sao Paolo, Brazil Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria Cinema Massimo, Turin, Italy Superstudio Più Central Point, Milan, Italy

2008

Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media, Yamaguchi, Japan AI Hall, Itami, Osaka, Japan Yebisu Garden Hall, Tokyo, Japan Auditorium Melotti, Rovereto Festival, Italy International Symposium: Architectures for Music | Palau Música Catalana, Barcelona, Spain Théâtre Nono, Marseille Festival, France Jazz à Luz, Luz St Sauveur, France Notte Digitale, Romeuropa Festival, Rome, Italy Centre Pompidou, Paris, France PAF - Festival of Animated Film, Kino Metropol, Olomouc, Czech Republic

2007

Territorios Sevilla 2007, Escenario Tres Culturas, Seville, Spain Videoex 2007, Zurich, Switzerland Usine-C, Festival Elektra 8, Montréal, Canada Teatro Out Off, Milan, Italy Centre Pompidou, Paris, France DEAF, Rotterdam, Netherlands LiFE, St Nazaire, France

2006

Arnolfini, Bristol, UK Recombinant Media Labs, San Francisco, California, USA California Theater, San Jose, California, USA Paradiso, Amsterdam, Netherlands Tokyo International Forum Hall C, Tokyo, Japan Tate Modern, London, UK TDK Time Warp, Mannheim, Germany AV Festival, Sage Gateshead, Gateshead, UK


“On-screen data-streams, an unremitting flow of zeros and ones, created a witty and mesmerising effect and coalesced with the sound to justify claims of synaesthesia … datamatics showed Ikeda at the height of his powers, building on his own unique and unmistakable artistic language.” – The Wire

Using pure data as a source for sound and visuals, datamatics is a performance work by Ryoji Ikeda that combines abstract and mimetic presentations of matter, time and space in a powerful and breathtakingly accomplished work.

Ryoji Ikeda's datamatics series is an art project that explores the potential to perceive the invisible multi-substance of data that permeates our world. Projecting dynamic, computer-generated imagery - in paired down black and white with striking colour accents, Ikeda's intense yet minimal graphic renderings of data progress through multiple dimensions. From 2D sequences of patterns derived from hard drive errors and studies of software code, the imagery transforms into dramatic, rotating views of the universe in 3D, whilst the final scenes add a further dimension as four-dimensional mathematical processing opens up spectacular and seemingly infinite vistas.

A powerful and hypnotic soundtrack reflects the imagery through a meticulous layering of sonic components to produce immense and apparently boundless acoustic spaces.

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Ryoji Ikeda is a Japanese sound and visual artist living and working in Paris, France and Kyoto, Japan. Ikeda has gained an international reputation as one of the few artists working convincingly across both visual and sonic media. He elaborately orchestras sound, visuals, materials, physical phenomena and mathematical notions into immersive live performances and installations. Alongside musical activity, Ikeda has been working on long-term projects through live performances, installations, books and CD’s such as datamatics (2006-), test pattern (2008-), spectra (2001-), cyclo (a collaborative project with Carsten Nicolai), superposition (2012-), supersymmetry (2014-) and micro | macro (2015-). Ryoji Ikeda is represented by Almine Rech Gallery.

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Previous presentations

2012

WWW, Tokyo, Japan Kyoto Experiment 2012, Kyoto, Japan Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, Waterloo, Canada Teatro 25 de Mayo, Buenos Aires, Argentina MONA, Tasmania, Australia

2011

Melos-Ethos Festival, Bratislava, Slovakia Latitude Festival, Suffolk, UK Electron festival, Geneva, Switzerland SPILL Festival, Barbican, London, UK MaerzMusik Festival, Berlin, Germany Palazzo Grassi, Venice, Italy PuSh Festival, Goldcorp Centre for the Arts, Vancouver, Canada

2010

Teatro Della Pergola, Florence, Italy French Institute Alliance Française, New York, USA Second Nature, Aix-en-Provence, France Concertbouw Brugge, Bruges, Belgium Biennale Musiques en Scene, Lyon, France

2009

Pompidou Metz, Metz, France Grec 09, Barcelona, Spain ON-OFF Experiences in Live Image, Itaú Cultural, Sao Paolo, Brazil Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria Cinema Massimo, Turin, Italy Superstudio Più Central Point, Milan, Italy

2008

Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media, Yamaguchi, Japan AI Hall, Itami, Osaka, Japan Yebisu Garden Hall, Tokyo, Japan Auditorium Melotti, Rovereto Festival, Italy International Symposium: Architectures for Music | Palau Música Catalana, Barcelona, Spain Théâtre Nono, Marseille Festival, France Jazz à Luz, Luz St Sauveur, France Notte Digitale, Romeuropa Festival, Rome, Italy Centre Pompidou, Paris, France PAF - Festival of Animated Film, Kino Metropol, Olomouc, Czech Republic

2007

Territorios Sevilla 2007, Escenario Tres Culturas, Seville, Spain Videoex 2007, Zurich, Switzerland Usine-C, Festival Elektra 8, Montréal, Canada Teatro Out Off, Milan, Italy Centre Pompidou, Paris, France DEAF, Rotterdam, Netherlands LiFE, St Nazaire, France

2006

Arnolfini, Bristol, UK Recombinant Media Labs, San Francisco, California, USA California Theater, San Jose, California, USA Paradiso, Amsterdam, Netherlands Tokyo International Forum Hall C, Tokyo, Japan Tate Modern, London, UK TDK Time Warp, Mannheim, Germany AV Festival, Sage Gateshead, Gateshead, UK