[Microsound-announce] Ryoji Ikeda's new works "Datamatics", commissioned by YCAM (Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media)

Thu Jan 31 23:47:01 EST 2008

YCAM is proud to present the new commissioned work of Ryoji Ikeda.

*** Ryoji Ikeda's new installations "datamatics" ***

__Exhibition

Period: March 1st - May 25th, 2008 (Closed on Tuesdays, the next days if it
falls on a holiday)

Time: Mon-Fri/ 12:00-19:00, Sat, Sun, Holiday/ 10:00-20:00

Admission: Free

Venue: Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media (YCAM) Studio A & B

              (7-7 Nakazono-cho Yamaguchi City, JAPAN)

Web: http://datamatics.ycam.jp/ (will be open on Feb. 1st, 2008)

__Opening Event: audiovisual concert "datamatics[ver2.0]"

When: March 1st (Sat.) 2008, 19:30 (doors open at 19:00)

Venue: Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media (YCAM) Studio A  (Capacity: 200
persons)

Admission: 2,000 yen / door 2,500 yen

Ticket: web   http://www.ycfcp.or.jp/ (Japanese only)

             tel      +81 83 920 6111 (10:00-19:00 *Closed on Tuesdays)

Organizer: Yamaguchi City Foundation for Cultural Promotion

Support: Yamaguchi City, Yamaguchi City Board of Education

Sponsorship: Mix Wave, Inc.

Co-Sponsor: The ASAHI SHIMBUN FOUNDATION The Agency for Cultural Affairs
Government of Japan in the fiscal 2007

Produced by Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media

Technical Support: YCAM Interlab

Project Curator: Kazunao Abe (YCAM)

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.

Using computer and digital technologies to the utmost limit, his audiovisual
concerts datamatics (2006 present), C4I (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.

The following works will be presented in the upcoming exhibition at YCAM.

+ datamatics [ver2.0]

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.

+ data.tron

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.

+ data.film [nº1-a]

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.

+ test pattern [nº1] - World Premiere -

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.

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.

__Schedule of the Opening Day (March 1st, 2008)

10:00- exhibition open（StudioA: 16:00 close for concert /  Studio B: 20:00
close ）

15:00-16:30 reception at trattoria"ancola"［YCAM ］

19:00  audiovisual concert datamatics [ver.2.0] open at Studio A

19:30-21:00   audiovisual concert datamatics [ver.2.0]

22:00 after party   *Please Reserve In Advance.

* If you can come to see the opening, please notify us at soojin at ycam.jp by
Feb. 1st.  Detailed information regarding the trip to YCAM and accomodation
will be provided.

** for more information about the works please refer to our website:

  > "datamatics" new installations

      http://www.ycam.jp/en/art/2008/01/ryoji-ikeda-datamatics-new-ins.html

  > audiovisual concert "datamatics［ver.2.0 ］"datamatics"

      http://www.ycam.jp/en/live/2008/01/ryoji-ikeda-audiovisual-concer.html

or contact us at

Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media (YCAM)

7-7 Nakazono-cho Yamaguchi-city 7530075 JAPAN

tel: +81-83-901-2222 fax: +81-83-901-2216

email: information at ycam.jp http://www.ycam.jp/

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Soo-jin Lee

Public Relations

Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media(YCAM)

soojin at ycam.jp, soojin.michelle at gmail.com
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