Ryoji Ikeda - C⁴I
C⁴I is both a concert and a film that uses data as its material and theme, highlighting the ways in which data shapes our understanding of the world. Video images of landscapes are progressively abstracted into a language of data. Facts, figures and diagrams are used in a montage with dazzling graphic impact. The text excerpts elegantly punctuate the on-screen projections. Blurring the lines between nature, science and philosophy, the work subtly and hypnotically suggests the convergence of the real and the virtual. The soundtrack synchronises perfectly with the graphical and video images to create a piece of undeniable power and beauty.
In this highly atmospheric work, Ikeda strives for an aesthetic of pure data. Derived from the natural world, from global systems such as economics and from research mathematics, data forms a new material for the artist's explorations. C⁴I, in its meticulous composition and technical sophistication, reveals sublime views of reality.
Ryoji Ikeda – C⁴I
Produced by forma
Commissioned by Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media (YCAM)
Supported by Arts Council England
Photos: Kazuo Fukunaga
Related links
C⁴I 2004
C⁴I 2005
C⁴I 2006
C⁴I 2007
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Artists
- About
- Represented by Forma
- Gina Czarnecki
- Ryoji Ikeda
- data.tron [8K enhanced version]
- V≠ L
- spectra
- test pattern
- test pattern [live set]
- datamatics [ver.2.0]
- data.tron
- data.film
- data.spectra
- spectra II
- db
- Ryoji Ikeda + Carsten Nicolai - cyclo.
- formula
- dataphonics [concert version]
- dataphonics [radio version]
- spectra [for Terminal 5, JFK]
- C⁴I
- datamatics [ver.1.0]
- Lynette Wallworth
- Produced by Forma
