Ryoji Ikeda – micro | macro
21 Jun - 09 Aug 2015
The opening is scheduled to take place on Sun, June 21, 2015 sat 2 pm!
As prelude to the »Infosphere«, the ZKM shows a large-scale exhibition by Ryoji Ikeda. The composer and artist is internationally one of the most important representatives of media art and experimental electronic music. He creates synaesthetic installations of sound and moving images. Ikeda presents in the atriums 1 + 2 of the ZKM large format installations, in which the visitors are almost completely submerged. Ikeda's synaesthetic, audiovisual installations unfold their immersive, hypnotic effect.
Ikeda’s audiovisual works are characterized by a profound artistic exploration of human perception, the human scale and the very nature of sound. The artist analyzes the possibilities of new digital technologies. He is particularly interested in the limits and the basic shapes of sound – as an analyst, he reveals the physical principles of sound. Ikeda explores the audible to the limits of human perception and dissects it with the precision of a surgeon. The visualization of his sound art is intimately connected with the audible and thus forms an aesthetic unity. He creates highly aestheticized, abstract images that result in strict minimalism, the infosphere always in mind.
Comparable to a hacker, he enters the world of data and makes its hidden essentials – its code – visible: unfolding data streams and abstract computational processes to envelop the viewer.
As prelude to the »Infosphere«, the ZKM shows a large-scale exhibition by Ryoji Ikeda. The composer and artist is internationally one of the most important representatives of media art and experimental electronic music. He creates synaesthetic installations of sound and moving images. Ikeda presents in the atriums 1 + 2 of the ZKM large format installations, in which the visitors are almost completely submerged. Ikeda's synaesthetic, audiovisual installations unfold their immersive, hypnotic effect.
Ikeda’s audiovisual works are characterized by a profound artistic exploration of human perception, the human scale and the very nature of sound. The artist analyzes the possibilities of new digital technologies. He is particularly interested in the limits and the basic shapes of sound – as an analyst, he reveals the physical principles of sound. Ikeda explores the audible to the limits of human perception and dissects it with the precision of a surgeon. The visualization of his sound art is intimately connected with the audible and thus forms an aesthetic unity. He creates highly aestheticized, abstract images that result in strict minimalism, the infosphere always in mind.
Comparable to a hacker, he enters the world of data and makes its hidden essentials – its code – visible: unfolding data streams and abstract computational processes to envelop the viewer.