Ikeda Ryoji's first solo exhibition

Ikeda Ryoji's first solo exhibition will be held at the Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media from 2008-03-01 to 2008-05-08. I'm definitely going, and you should go too.

How many points are there in a line?
What is the number of numbers?
How can we verify that the random is random?

data.tron and data.film are parts of the datamatics project, which is a series of experiments that explore such questions, physically and mathematically. Visitors will experience the vast universe of data in the infinite between 0 and 1.

About Ikeda Ryoji (compiled from forma arts and media producers content)
Japan's leading electronic composer/artist, Ryoji Ikeda, focuses on the minutiae of ultrasonics, frequencies and the essential characteristics of sound itself.

Since 1995, Ikeda has been intensely active through concerts, installations, and recordings, integrating sound, acoustics and sublime imagery. In the artist’s works, music, time and space are shaped by mathematical methods as Ikeda explores sound as sensation, pulling apart its physical properties to reveal its relationship with human perception.

Ikeda’s latest body of work, datamatics, is a long-term programme of moving image, sculptural, sound and new media works that use data as their theme and material to explore the ways in which abstracted views of reality – data – are used to encode, understand and control the world.

He has been hailed by critics as one of the most radical and innovative contemporary composers for his live performances, sound installations and recordings. His albums +/- (Touch, 1996), 0°C (Touch, 1998) and matrix (Touch, 2000) pioneered a new minimal world of electronic music, employing sine waves, electronic "glitch" sounds, and white noise. Ikeda's critically acclaimed, seventh solo album, dataplex (raster-noton, 2005), and the new release, test pattern (raster-noton, 25 February 2008) are part of the datamatics series.

Read more about datamastics here on the FORMA website.

Ryoji Ikeda's website is here.

Yamaguchi Center for the Arts and Media link here.