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Renowned artist/composer Ryoji
Ikeda presents a special installation designed for
the FIAF Gallery featuring computer-generated imagery and
sound.
For this solo exhibition, Ikeda will show a selection of
works inspired by discussions with Harvard number theorist
Benedict Gross that preceded Ikeda’s groundbreaking 2008
exhibition, V≠L, at Le Laboratoire in Paris.
Works to be shown include:
the transcendental (e) [n°2-a] (2009)
/ the transcendental (e) [n°2-b] (2009)
Commissioned by Museum
of Contemporary Art Tokyo
A transcendental number is mathematically infinite. In works
inspired by this concept, a snapshot of millions of digits
taken from a transcendental number is engraved onto a stainless
steel panel or printed onto photographic paper.
the transcendental [n°3](2010)
Commissioned by La Casa Encendida
Concept, composition: Ryoji Ikeda
Programming: Tomonaga Tokuyama
Produced by Forma
The infinite digits of a transcendental number are generated
by a real-time computer program and presented on a display.
Visitors will experience a fragment of a number that knows
no end. No two visitors will witness the same fragment, giving
each visitor an entirely unique glimpse at infinity’s threshold.
This exhibition marks the first time these works will be
shown together, in an installation designed specifically
for Crossing the Line.
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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Free and open
to the public
Venue
FIAF
Gallery
22 East 60th Street
New York, NY 10022
FIAF Gallery Hours Tue–Fri: 11am–6pm
Sat: 11am–5pm
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
