Ryoji Ikeda - data.tron
18 - 31 December 2008
Dans la nuit, des images
Grand Palais
Paris, FR
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 is part of Ikeda’s ongoing datamatics project, a series of experiments that explore such questions, physically and mathematically. Viewers will experience the vast universe of data in the infinite between 0 and 1.
data.tron is an audiovisual installation, in which 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 vast screen, heightening and intensifying the viewers perception and total immersion within the work.
The installation forms a centrepiece of Dans la nuit, des Images, a group exhibition organised for the French presidency of the European Union and in celebration of the 10th anniversary of Le Fresnoy-Studio National des arts contemporains.
Coproduced by Le Fresnoy, Studio national des arts contemporains and Forma
Photos: Ryuichi Maruo (courtesy of Yamaguchi Center of Arts and Media)
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