2014.4.2 - 6.1
YCAM(Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media)
큐레이터 _ Kazunao Abe (YCAM)
공동 큐레이터 _ Patrick Gyger (Le Lieu Unique)
Artist Ryoji Ikeda has made a great impact worldwide with his installations and expressions using state-of-the-art electronic sounds ranging from the domain of microscopic and precise bit rate control to large-scaled projects in the public spaces. His new piece “supersymmetry,” the 3rd part of the YCAM commissioned work series, is an installation in where he approached the expression limits of data observation, which is his forte, as he explores quantum information theory and particle physics from an aesthetic viewpoint. In this work, he pursues overwhelmingly intensified expression via the studio spaces in YCAM.
The “supersymmetry” is a new work conceived as an installation version of his performance work “superposition” (2012-) and as a platform to update the process and outcome of his forthcoming residence during 2014-15 at CERN in Geneva where is the largest center in the world for particle physics. It is a collaborative production between YCAM and Le lieu unique, scène nationale de Nantes with the support of the City of Nantes and the Ministry of Culture and Communication (France). Unveiled first in Japan, this installation will also be shown around the world.
As suggested by the appendix “experiment” in the title, in this work visitors can witness physical phenomena prior to being observed and recorded as data. Installed in the Studio are three light boxes that emit intense white light. The surfaces of these light boxes are paved with microscopically small pellets that behave in various ways according to the boxes’ slightly changing inclination. Highlighted by the permanently blinking light boxes, the pellets behave in complex ways, gathering to form groups or moving individually while affecting each other’s behavior. Red lasers scanning the light boxes’ surfaces detect the pellets’ behavior, which is then translated into data that are reflected in the sound and liquid crystal visual displays monitoring the light boxes. While the three light boxes are identical in size (1m x 1m), pellets of different materials and differently coated surfaces are used on each of them, so that visitors can observe their individual behavior.
Set up in the darkness of the exhibition space are two 20m x 0.7m horizontal video screens arranged on the left and right side, parallel to and facing each other, along with two parallel rows of 20 monitors each. While images are successively displayed on the video screens, their respective movements are analyzed and described on the monitors lined up in front of them. Each visual scene is precisely constructed of such analyzed and dissolved data, whereas all screens are controlled to operate in total synchronization with parallel independent audio playbacks. The work dismantles the visitor’s consciousness as he/she attempts to grasp at once from one position where all the things that happen simultaneously in the multiple moving and blinking images and their respective complex, high-speed analyses on both sides of the installation. Expanding their imagination of a parallel universe of imagery and sound to the awareness and resolution of the entire space, and not only pursue the meanings of single images, analyzed data and sounds, will enable visitors to enter the musical construct that Ikeda composed. In reference to the term “mathematical experience”, the ”music” that is exhibited here aims to create a connection between mathematical models and musical expression. Audio and visual contents of this installation will be frequently updated in the future, to continually reflect Ikeda’s new scientific and mathematical interests.
about Ryoji Ikeda
born in 1966 in Gifu, Japan
lives and works in Paris, France
Japan’s leading electronic composer and visual artist Ryoji Ikeda focuses on the essential characteristics of sound itself and that of visuals as light by means of both mathematical precision and mathematical aesthetics. 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 of pure musical activity, Ikeda has been working on long-term projects: 'datamatics' (2006-) consists of various forms such as moving image, sculptural, sound and new media works that explore one's potentials to perceive the invisible multi-substance of data that permeates our 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, which examines the relationship between critical points of device performance and the threshold of human perception. The series 'spectra' (2001-) is large-scale installations employing intense white light as a sculptural material and so transforming public locations in Amsterdam, Paris, Barcelona, Nagoya, Tasmania and Sharjah, where versions have been installed. With Carsten Nicolai, Ikeda works a collaborative project 'cyclo.' (2000- ), which examines error structures and repetitive loops in software and computer programmed music, with audiovisual modules for real-time sound visualization, through live performance, CDs and books (Raster-noton, 2001, 2011, 2013). He is awarded the Prix Ars Electronica Collide@Cern 2014.
큐레이터 _ Kazunao Abe (YCAM)
공동 큐레이터 _ Patrick Gyger (Le Lieu Unique)
Artist Ryoji Ikeda has made a great impact worldwide with his installations and expressions using state-of-the-art electronic sounds ranging from the domain of microscopic and precise bit rate control to large-scaled projects in the public spaces. His new piece “supersymmetry,” the 3rd part of the YCAM commissioned work series, is an installation in where he approached the expression limits of data observation, which is his forte, as he explores quantum information theory and particle physics from an aesthetic viewpoint. In this work, he pursues overwhelmingly intensified expression via the studio spaces in YCAM.
The “supersymmetry” is a new work conceived as an installation version of his performance work “superposition” (2012-) and as a platform to update the process and outcome of his forthcoming residence during 2014-15 at CERN in Geneva where is the largest center in the world for particle physics. It is a collaborative production between YCAM and Le lieu unique, scène nationale de Nantes with the support of the City of Nantes and the Ministry of Culture and Communication (France). Unveiled first in Japan, this installation will also be shown around the world.
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| supersymmetry [experiment] |
As suggested by the appendix “experiment” in the title, in this work visitors can witness physical phenomena prior to being observed and recorded as data. Installed in the Studio are three light boxes that emit intense white light. The surfaces of these light boxes are paved with microscopically small pellets that behave in various ways according to the boxes’ slightly changing inclination. Highlighted by the permanently blinking light boxes, the pellets behave in complex ways, gathering to form groups or moving individually while affecting each other’s behavior. Red lasers scanning the light boxes’ surfaces detect the pellets’ behavior, which is then translated into data that are reflected in the sound and liquid crystal visual displays monitoring the light boxes. While the three light boxes are identical in size (1m x 1m), pellets of different materials and differently coated surfaces are used on each of them, so that visitors can observe their individual behavior.
 |
| supersymmetry [experience] |
Set up in the darkness of the exhibition space are two 20m x 0.7m horizontal video screens arranged on the left and right side, parallel to and facing each other, along with two parallel rows of 20 monitors each. While images are successively displayed on the video screens, their respective movements are analyzed and described on the monitors lined up in front of them. Each visual scene is precisely constructed of such analyzed and dissolved data, whereas all screens are controlled to operate in total synchronization with parallel independent audio playbacks. The work dismantles the visitor’s consciousness as he/she attempts to grasp at once from one position where all the things that happen simultaneously in the multiple moving and blinking images and their respective complex, high-speed analyses on both sides of the installation. Expanding their imagination of a parallel universe of imagery and sound to the awareness and resolution of the entire space, and not only pursue the meanings of single images, analyzed data and sounds, will enable visitors to enter the musical construct that Ikeda composed. In reference to the term “mathematical experience”, the ”music” that is exhibited here aims to create a connection between mathematical models and musical expression. Audio and visual contents of this installation will be frequently updated in the future, to continually reflect Ikeda’s new scientific and mathematical interests.
about Ryoji Ikeda
born in 1966 in Gifu, Japan
lives and works in Paris, France
Japan’s leading electronic composer and visual artist Ryoji Ikeda focuses on the essential characteristics of sound itself and that of visuals as light by means of both mathematical precision and mathematical aesthetics. 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 of pure musical activity, Ikeda has been working on long-term projects: 'datamatics' (2006-) consists of various forms such as moving image, sculptural, sound and new media works that explore one's potentials to perceive the invisible multi-substance of data that permeates our 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, which examines the relationship between critical points of device performance and the threshold of human perception. The series 'spectra' (2001-) is large-scale installations employing intense white light as a sculptural material and so transforming public locations in Amsterdam, Paris, Barcelona, Nagoya, Tasmania and Sharjah, where versions have been installed. With Carsten Nicolai, Ikeda works a collaborative project 'cyclo.' (2000- ), which examines error structures and repetitive loops in software and computer programmed music, with audiovisual modules for real-time sound visualization, through live performance, CDs and books (Raster-noton, 2001, 2011, 2013). He is awarded the Prix Ars Electronica Collide@Cern 2014.
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