Ryoji Ikeda - data.tron

How many points are there in a line?
What is the number of numbers?
How can we verify that the random is random?

Japan’s leading electronic composer/artist, Ryoji Ikeda is interested in the minutiae of ultrasonics, frequencies and the essential qualities of sound. For Ikon he continues his exploration of the infinity of data between 0 and 1, an abstraction of reality that challenges our perception of the codes present in everyday life.

The large-scale audiovisual installation data.tron immerses the viewer in a projection of row upon row of numbers, a sea of ever-changing streams of numerical data. Each single pixel is strictly calculated, shaped by a combination of pure mathematics and the immense quantity of information available in today’s world.

Ikon also presents an audiovisual performance of Ikeda’s composition datamatics [ver. 2.0].

Exhibition

15 October - 8 November 2009 | Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, UK

data.tron co-produced by Le Fresnoy and Forma

Images: Ryuichi Maruo (courtesy of YCAM)

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