Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media (YCAM) is proud to present the new
commissioned work of Ryoji Ikeda, and we cordially invite you to the
opening.
*** Ryoji Ikeda's new installations "datamatics" ***
\_\_Exhibition
Period: March 1st - May 25th, 2008 (Closed on Tuesdays, the next days if
it falls on a holiday)
Time: Mon-Fri/ 12:00-19:00, Sat, Sun, Holiday/ 10:00-20:00
Admission: Free
Venue: Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media (YCAM) Studio A & B
(7-7 Nakazono-cho Yamaguchi City, JAPAN)
Web: http://datamatics.ycam.jp/
\_\_Opening Event: audiovisual concert "datamatics[ver2.0]"
When: March 1st (Sat.) 2008, 19:30 (doors open at 19:00)
Venue: Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media (YCAM) Studio A (Capacity:
200 persons)
Admission: 2,000 yen / door 2,500 yen
Ticket: web http://www.ycfcp.or.jp/ (Japanese only)
tel: +81 83 920 6111 (10:00-19:00 *Closed on Tuesdays)
Japan's leading electronic composer/artist, 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.
Using computer and digital technologies to the utmost limit, his
audiovisual concerts datamatics (2006 present), C4I (2004 -
present)commissioned by YCAM and formula (2000 - 2006) suggest a unique
orientation for our future multimedia environment and culture. His
acclaimed installations data.tron [prototype] (2007), data.film [nº1-a]
(2007),data.spectra (2005), spectra [for terminal 5, jfk] (2004),
spectra II (2002) and db (2002) continue to diffuse Ikeda's aesthetic of
'ultra minimalism' to the art world.
The following works will be presented in the upcoming exhibition at YCAM.
+ datamatics [ver2.0]
datamatics [ver 2.0] is the new, full-length version of Ryoji Ikeda's
acclaimed audiovisual concert. Ikeda has significantly developed the
earlier version of this piece (premiered in March 2006), adding a newly
commissioned second part. Driven by the primary principles of
datamatics, but objectively deconstructing its original elements -
sound, visuals and even source codes - this new work creates a kind of
meta-datamatics. Ikeda employs real-time programme computations and data
scanning to create an extended new sequence that is a further
abstraction of the original work.
+ data.tron
data.tron is an audiovisual installation, 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. These images are projected onto a large screen,
heightening and intensifying the viewer’s perception and total immersion
within the work.
+ data.film [nº1-a]
A sculptural wall installation, data.film consists of a series of 35mm
film mounted in a light box. The image on the film is constructed from
microscopically printed data codes and patterns from pure digital
sources, while the unusual proportions of the light box (4 cm high, 10
metres wide, 4 cm deep) create a long, narrow strip of film. Only upon
close examination by the viewer can the film and its contents be recognised.
+ test pattern [nº1] - World Premiere -
Ryoji Ikeda's new project test pattern is interrelated with his
datamatics project. test pattern is a system to convert any kind of data
(text, sounds, photos and movies) into barcode patterns and binary
patterns of 0s and 1s. Through its application, the project's aim is to
examine the relationship between critical points of device performance
and threshold of human perception.
The installation comprises 8 computer monitors and 16 loudspeakers
aligned on the floor in a dark space. The 8 rectangular surfaces of the
screens flicker intensely with black and white images, floating and
convulsing in the darkness. 16-channel sound signals are mapped as a
grid matrix, passing and slicing the space sharply. Via a real-time
computer program, the signal patterns are converted into 8 barcode
patterns, which are tightly synchronized. The velocity of the moving
images is ultrafast, some hundreds of frames per second at certain
points, providing a performance test for the devices and a response test
for visitors' perceptions.
Organizer: Yamaguchi City Foundation for Cultural Promotion
Support: Yamaguchi City, Yamaguchi City Board of Education
Sponsorship: Mix Wave, Inc.
Co-sponsor: THE ASAHI SHIMBUN FOUNDATION、The Agency for Cultural
Affairs Government of Japan in the fiscal 2007
Produced by Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media
Technical Support: YCAM Interlab
Project Curator: Kazunao Abe (YCAM)
** for more information about the works please refer to our website:
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or contact us at
Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media (YCAM)
7-7 Nakazono-cho Yamaguchi-city 7530075 JAPAN
tel: +81-83-901-2222 fax: +81-83-901-2216
email: information@ycam.jp http://www.ycam.jp/
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contact:
Soo-jin Lee
Public Relations
Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media(YCAM)
soojin@ycam.jp
