Ryoji Ikeda - data.tron [8K enhanced version]

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1 January 2009 - 31 December 2010

Ars Electronica

Linz, AT

data.tron [8K enhanced version] was commissioned by Ars Electronica Center to mark the occasion of the new Deep Space venue opening (at the beginning of this year), and in celebration of Linz as Capital of Culture 2009.

data.tron [8K enhanced version] forms part of Ikeda's datamatics series, which explores, physically and mathematically, such questions as:

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

Visitors will experience the vast universe of data in the infinite between 0 and 1.

This work is an enhanced version of the audiovisual installation data.tron, 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. In this latest version visitors are literally immersed in the work, as data is seamlessly projected onto the gallery wall and floor.

The work is shown once or twice a day, and three times on Thursdays.

Images: Liz Hingley

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