<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; "><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; ">YCAM is proud to present the new commissioned work of Ryoji Ikeda.</p>
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*** Ryoji Ikeda's new installations "datamatics" ***</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; min-height: 14px; "><br>
</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; ">__Exhibition</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; ">
Period: March 1st - May 25th, 2008 (Closed on Tuesdays, the next days if it falls on a holiday)</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; ">
Time: Mon-Fri/ 12:00-19:00, Sat, Sun, Holiday/ 10:00-20:00</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; ">Admission: Free</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; ">
Venue: Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media (YCAM) Studio A & B</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; "> (7-7 Nakazono-cho Yamaguchi City, JAPAN)</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; ">Web: <a href="http://datamatics.ycam.jp/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204); ">http://datamatics.ycam.jp/</a> (will be open on Feb. 1st, 2008)</p>
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__Opening Event: audiovisual concert "datamatics[ver2.0]"</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; ">When: March 1st (Sat.) 2008, 19:30 (doors open at 19:00)</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; ">Venue: Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media (YCAM) Studio A (Capacity: 200 persons)</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; ">
Admission: 2,000 yen / door 2,500 yen </p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; ">Ticket: web <a href="http://www.ycfcp.or.jp/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204); ">http://www.ycfcp.or.jp/</a> (Japanese only)</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; "> tel +81 83 920 6111 (10:00-19:00 *Closed on Tuesdays)</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; min-height: 14px; ">
<br></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; ">Organizer: Yamaguchi City Foundation for Cultural Promotion</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; ">
Support: Yamaguchi City, Yamaguchi City Board of Education</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; ">Sponsorship: Mix Wave, Inc.</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; ">Co-Sponsor: The ASAHI SHIMBUN FOUNDATION The Agency for Cultural Affairs Government of Japan in the fiscal 2007</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; ">Produced by Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; ">
Technical Support: YCAM Interlab</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; ">Project Curator: Kazunao Abe (YCAM)</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; min-height: 14px; ">
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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.</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: justify; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 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.</p>
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The following works will be presented in the upcoming exhibition at YCAM.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: justify; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; min-height: 14px; ">
</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: justify; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; ">+ datamatics [ver2.0]</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: justify; line-height: 12px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 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.</p>
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+ data.tron</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: justify; line-height: 12px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 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.</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: justify; line-height: 12px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; min-height: 14px; "><br></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; ">
+ data.film [nº1-a]</p><p style="margin-top: 6px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: justify; line-height: 12px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 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.</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: justify; line-height: 12px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; min-height: 14px; "><br></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; ">
+ test pattern [nº1] - World Premiere -</p><p style="margin-top: 6px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: justify; line-height: 12px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 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. </p>
<p style="margin-top: 6px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: justify; line-height: 12px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 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. </p>
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__Schedule of the Opening Day (March 1st, 2008)</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; ">10:00- exhibition open<span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Hiragino Kaku Gothic Pro'; ">（</span>StudioA: 16:00 close for concert / Studio B: 20:00 close<span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Hiragino Kaku Gothic Pro'; "> ）</span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; ">15:00-16:30 reception@trattoria"ancola"<span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Hiragino Kaku Gothic Pro'; ">［</span>YCAM<span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Hiragino Kaku Gothic Pro'; "> ］</span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; ">19:00 audiovisual concert datamatics [ver.2.0] open@Studio A</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; ">
19:30-21:00 audiovisual concert datamatics [ver.2.0]</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; ">22:00 after party *Please Reserve In Advance.</p>
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<br></p><p style="margin-top: 6px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: justify; line-height: 12px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; ">* If you can come to see the opening, please notify us at <a href="mailto:soojin@ycam.jp" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204); ">soojin@ycam.jp</a> by Feb. 1st. Detailed information regarding the trip to YCAM and accomodation will be provided.</p>
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** for more information about the works please refer to our website: </p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; "> > "datamatics" new installations</p>
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