<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Arial">YCAM is proud to present the new commissioned work of Ryoji Ikeda.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Arial">*** Ryoji Ikeda's new installations "datamatics" ***</p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Arial">__Exhibition</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Arial">Period: March 1st - May 25th, 2008 (Closed on Tuesdays, the next days if it falls on a holiday)</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Arial">Time: Mon-Fri/ 12:00-19:00, Sat, Sun, Holiday/ 10:00-20:00</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Arial">Admission: Free</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Arial">Venue: Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media (YCAM) Studio A & B</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Arial"> (7-7 Nakazono-cho Yamaguchi City, JAPAN)</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Arial">Web: <a href="http://datamatics.ycam.jp/">http://datamatics.ycam.jp/</a> (will be open on Feb. 1st, 2008)</p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Arial">__Opening Event: audiovisual concert "datamatics[ver2.0]"</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Arial">When: March 1st (Sat.) 2008, 19:30 (doors open at 19:00)</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Arial">Venue: Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media (YCAM) Studio A (Capacity: 200 persons)</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Arial">Admission: 2,000 yen / door 2,500 yen </p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Arial">Ticket: web <a href="http://www.ycfcp.or.jp/">http://www.ycfcp.or.jp/</a> (Japanese only)</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Arial"> tel +81 83 920 6111 (10:00-19:00 *Closed on Tuesdays)</p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Arial">Organizer: Yamaguchi City Foundation for Cultural Promotion</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Arial">Support: Yamaguchi City, Yamaguchi City Board of Education</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Arial">Sponsorship: Mix Wave, Inc.</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Arial">Co-Sponsor: The ASAHI SHIMBUN FOUNDATION The Agency for Cultural Affairs Government of Japan in the fiscal 2007</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Arial">Produced by Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Arial">Technical Support: YCAM Interlab</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Arial">Project Curator: Kazunao Abe (YCAM)</p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; font: 12.0px Arial">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.
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; font: 12.0px Arial">Using computer and digital technologies to the utmost limit, his audiovisual concerts datamatics (2006 present), C<sup>4</sup>I (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.
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; font: 12.0px Arial">The following works will be presented in the upcoming exhibition at YCAM.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; font: 12.0px Arial">+ datamatics [ver2.0]</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; line-height: 12.0px; font: 12.0px Arial">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.
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; line-height: 12.0px; font: 12.0px Arial">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.
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Arial">+ data.film [nº1-a]</p>
<p style="margin: 6.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; line-height: 12.0px; font: 12.0px Arial">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.
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Arial">+ test pattern [nº1] - World Premiere -</p>
<p style="margin: 6.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; line-height: 12.0px; font: 12.0px Arial">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.
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<p style="margin: 6.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; line-height: 12.0px; font: 12.0px Arial">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.
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<p style="margin: 6.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; line-height: 12.0px; font: 12.0px Arial">__Schedule of the Opening Day (March 1st, 2008)</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Arial">10:00- exhibition open<span style="font: 12.0px Hiragino Kaku Gothic Pro">（</span>StudioA: 16:00 close for concert / Studio B: 20:00 close<span style="font: 12.0px Hiragino Kaku Gothic Pro">
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Arial">15:00-16:30 reception@trattoria"ancola"<span style="font: 12.0px Hiragino Kaku Gothic Pro">［</span>YCAM<span style="font: 12.0px Hiragino Kaku Gothic Pro">
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Arial">19:00 audiovisual concert datamatics [ver.2.0] open@Studio A</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Arial">19:30-21:00 audiovisual concert datamatics [ver.2.0]</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Arial">22:00 after party *Please Reserve In Advance.</p>
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<p style="margin: 6.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; line-height: 12.0px; font: 12.0px Arial">* If you can come to see the opening, please notify us at <a href="mailto:soojin@ycam.jp">soojin@ycam.jp</a> by Feb. 1st. Detailed information regarding the trip to YCAM and accomodation will be provided.
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