Ryoji Ikeda - data.spectra
Across the entire width of a darkened room is an intensely bright, narrow screen. On moving closer, the screen reveals that the source of the flood of light into the room is a vast array of tiny digits streaming across the surface, seemingly without end.
data.spectra is the first work of the data.series, a new series of moving image, sculptural, sound and new media works by Ikeda 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.spectra premieres in White Noise, an exhibition at ACMI, Melbourne exploring abstraction in the digital age; the show presents works by international artists who are pioneering a revival in abstract experimentation in contemporary screen practice.
Exhibited alongside data.spectra in White Noise is the existing work spectra II (2002), another highly immersive and experiential installation piece. Visitors navigate their way through a narrow, covered corridor - almost invisible due to its intense darkness/brightness and inaudible due to its ultra-frequencies - by listening to the sounds their own movements trigger in the space.
Exhibition
18 Aug– 23 Oct 05 | White Noise | Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Melbourne, AU
Produced by Forma
Commissioned by the Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI), 2005
Photo: Christian Capurro (L)
