Ryoji Ikeda
June 14, 2012 — November 18, 2012
Exhibition
DHC/ART Foundation for Contemporary Art is delighted to present Ryoji Ikeda’s first survey exhibition in North America.
A fascinating and troubling poet of the digital age, Ikeda’s profound investigations in sound, time and space have their basis in mathematical methods which result in works of spare, sublime, if occasionally ear-splitting beauty. Spanning the microscopic to the infinite, his performances, installations and artworks variously produce sine waves, sound pulses, pixels of light and numerical data - sometimes in extraordinary combinations.
The artist has conceived a conceptual counterpoint between DHC/ART’s two buildings: the main space will display framed works, light boxes, sculptural works and works on paper under the rubric systematics. In the Satellite space Ikeda will present audiovisual projects, orchestrated as a symphonic whole, from the datamatics series which tests the limits of perception by visualizing the invisible data streams which permeate our world.
Japan’s leading electronic composer and visual artist, Ryoji Ikeda has gained a reputation as one of the few international artists working convincingly across both visual and sonic media. He elaborately orchestrates sound, visuals, materials, physical phenomena and mathematical notions into immersive live performances and installations.
Alongside pure musical activities, Ikeda has been working on long-term installation projects: datamatics (2006-) consisting of moving image, sculptural, sound and new media works that explore how abstracted views of reality are used to encode, understand and control the world. The project test pattern (2008-) has developed a system that converts any type of data - text, sounds, photos and movies - into barcode patterns and binary patterns of 0s and 1s. The series spectra (2001-) consists of large-scale installations employing intense white light as a sculptural material transforming public locations in Amsterdam, Paris, Barcelona and Nagoya.
Elements of this installation were provided by Park Avenue Armory.
With the cooperation of Gallery Koyanagi.
The exhibition of Ryoji Ikeda is supported by the Japan Foundation.
This exhibition is presented within the first International Digital Arts Biennal (BIAN 2012).
Biography
Ryoji Ikeda was born in 1966 in Gifu, Japan. He now lives and works in Paris. He has performed and exhibited worldwide including Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Melbourne; MIT, Boston; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Sónar Festival Barcelona; Tate Modern, London; Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin; Auditorium Parco della Musica, Roma; lCC, Tokyo; Art Beijing; Göteborg Biennale; Mutek Festival, and many other electronic music festivals and small DJ clubs.
Learning
Events
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Perte de Signal 15.0
November 15, 2012 — November 15, 2012 -
LOUNGE
November 10, 2012 — November 10, 2012 -
Guided tour with John Zeppetelli
November 01, 2012 — November 01, 2012 -
Open House Workshop with Perte de Signal
October 27, 2012 — October 27, 2012 -
Dissections : Ryoji Ikeda
October 17, 2012 — October 17, 2012 -
TALK with Alexandre Burton
September 30, 2012 — September 30, 2012 -
Open House Workshop with Perte de Signal
September 29, 2012 — September 29, 2012 -
Guided tour with John Zeppetelli
September 28, 2012 — September 28, 2012 -
Lucky Dragons
September 23, 2012 — September 23, 2012 -
Films4peace
September 21, 2012 — August 22, 2012 -
Performance “test pattern”
September 15, 2012 — September 15, 2012 -
SOLD OUT - Open House Workshop with Perte de Signal
July 21, 2012 — July 21, 2012 -
Lunch conference with Ryoji Ikeda
June 14, 2012 — June 14, 2012 -
IMPACTS - Alexandre Burton
June 14, 2012 — October 21, 2012













