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datamatics [ver. 2.0] is renowned
artist/composer Ryoji
Ikeda’s live audio-visual concert experience, which
immerses the audience in the invisible web of data that permeates
our world.
By projecting dynamic computer-generated imagery—in
black and white with striking color accents synchronized
to a powerful electronic composition—Ryoji Ikeda’s
intense yet minimal graphic renderings of data progress through
multiple dimensions. The technical dynamics of the work,
such as its extremely fast frame rates and variable bit depths,
challenge and explore the thresholds of our perceptions and
views on the world.
Note: performance includes strobe lights.
datamatics [ver.2.0]
Directed by Ryoji
Ikeda
Concept, composition: Ryoji Ikeda
Computer graphics, programming: Shohei Matsukawa, Daisuke
Tsunoda, Tomonaga Tokuyama, and Norimichi Hirakawa
Produced by Forma
Co–commissioned by AV Festival 06, ZeroOne San Jose & ISEA
2006 Co–produced by les Spectacles Vivants, Centre Pompidou,
& YCAM
Ryoji Ikeda Bio
www.ryojiikeda.com
Japan's leading electronic composer Ryoji Ikeda focuses on
the minutiae of ultrasonics, frequencies and the essential
characteristics of sound itself. His work exploits sound's
physical property, its causality with human perception and
mathematical dianoia as music, time and space. Using computer
and digital technology to the utmost limit, Ikeda has been
developing particular Microscopic methods for sound
engineering and composition. Since 1995 he has been intensely
active in sound art through concerts, installations and recordings:
the albums +/- (1996), 0 degrees (1998), and Matrix (2000)
have been hailed by critics as the most radical and innovative
examples of contemporary electronic music. With Carsten Nicolai,
he works the collaborative project cyclo., which examines
error structures and repetitive loops in software and computer
programmed music, with audiovisual modules for real time
sound visualization. The versatile range of his research
is also demonstrated by the collaborations with choreographer
William Forsythe/Frankfurt Ballett, contemporary artist Hiroshi
Sugimoto, architect Toyo Ito and artist collective Dumb Type,
among others. Ryoji Ikeda received the Golden Nica prize
at Prix Ars Electronica 2001 in the Digital Music category.
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Ticket Price
FIAF
&
Japan Society
Members $12
Non-Members $18
Venue
Florence
Gould Hall
55 East 59th Street
New York, NY 10022
Subway
4, 5, 6 to 59th St
N, R, W to Fifth Ave
E to 53rd St & Fifth Ave
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Ryoji
Ikeda
