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1/3/2012

Ryoji Ikeda

LABoral Art and Industrial Creation Centre, Gijon

A single large video image is projected by 5 projectors directly onto the floor of LABoral's large gallery space, which will immerse visitors' body, sight and hearing.

data.tecture [5 SXGA+ version] is an artistic re-orchestration of Ikeda's acclaimed audiovisual concert piece datamatics [ver.2.0] (2006-) that explores the potential to perceive the invisible multi-substance of data that permeates our world. Using pure data as a source for sound and visual compositions, datamatics [ver.2.0] combines abstract and mimetic presentations of matter, time and space in a powerful and breathtakingly accomplished work. From 2D sequences of patterns derived from hard drive errors and studies of software code, the imagery transforms into dramatic, rotating views of the universe in 3D, whilst the final scenes add a further dimension as four-dimensional mathematical processing opens up spectacular and seemingly infinite vistas.

Driven by the primary principles of datamatics [ver.2.0], but conceptually deconstructing and re-composing its original elements – transformations, visualizations and sonifications of a vast amount of scientific data set such as DNA human genome, astronomical coordinates of stars in the universe, molecular structures of protein and even data architecture of datamatics itself – this new work data.tecture [5 SXGA+ version] creates a kind of meta-datamatics. Ikeda employs real-time programme computations and data scanning to create a further abstraction of the original datamatics. The technical dynamics of the piece, such as its extremely fast frame rates and variable bit depths, continue to challenge and explore the thresholds of our perceptions.

Concept and composition: Ryoji Ikeda
computer re-programming: Tomonaga Tokuyama
original computer programming: Shohei Matsukawa, Norimichi Hirakawa, Tomonaga Tokuyama

Image: datamatics [prototype-ver.2.0], 2006- process © Ryoji Ikeda
Image: Ryuichi Maruo Courtesy: Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media (YCAM)

Programme of activities funded by the Ministry for Culture and Sports of the Principality of Asturias

LABoral Centro de Arte y Creacion Industrial
Los Prados 121 33394 Gijón (Asturias)
Hours:
Monday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, from 10 am to 7 pm
Saturday and Sunday, from noon to 8 pm
Closed every Tuesday (except for public holidays and local holidays)
The access to Exhibition Room finishes 15 minutes before the centre closes.
Fees & tickets
General fee: 2,00 €:
Free entrance: Friends of LABoral, under 10 years old, accredited press, members of ICOM, IAC and Visual Artists associations.
Free entrance days: Every Wednesday and 18th of May (International Museum Day).

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