Live Stage: data.tron [
Auckland]
Ryoji Ikeda - data.tron :: Opening Reception: July 11, 2008; 8:00 pm :: MIC Toi Rerehiko, Level 1, 321 Karangahape Road, Newton, Auckland, New Zealand.
Ryoji Ikeda’s data.tron installation was produced as part of the of the datamatics project. Using pure data as a source for sound and visuals, datamatics combines abstract and mimetic presentations of matter, time and space in a powerful and breathtakingly accomplished series of works. data.tron is a dramatic, intense and deeply absorbing audiovisual concert, where every 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 at an extremely fast rate, up to four times faster than normal film, heightening and intensifying the viewer’s perception and total immersion within the work.
MIC Toi Rerehiko is delighted to present Ryoji Ikeda in association with co-producers Le Fresnoy, Studio national des arts contemporains and Forma. Ryoji Ikeda is widely recognized as Japan’s leading electronic composer/artist and is renowned for his acclaimed solo concerts, installations, recordings and collaborative work with international luminaries such as William Forsythe, Toyo Ito and Hiroshi Sugimoto. Working across both visual and sonic media Ikeda explores the ways in which music, time and space are shaped by mathematical methods.





















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