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FEB 13-14, 2004 YCAM, Yamaguchi, JP
OCT 28, 2004 Pompidou Centre, Paris, FR
OCT 31, 2004 Theatre Kikker, Utrecht, NL
NOV 5, 2004 Teatro la Cavallerizza, Reggio Emilia, IT
NOV 20, 2004 Eyebeam, New York, US
FEB 16, 2005 Stuk, Leuven, BE
APR 23, 2005 Contemporary Arts Centre, Vilnius, LT
MAY 12, 2005 Usine-C, Montreal, CA
MAY 20, 2005 Palazzo dei Congressi, Rome, IT
OCT 10-11, 2005 Melbourne International Arts Festival, Melbourne, AU
OCT 15, 2005 Klangraum Minoritenkirche, Krems, AT
FEB 19, 2006 Teatro Canovas, Malaga, ES
MAR 3, 2006 AV festival, Sage Gateshead, Newcastle, UK
MAR 20, 2006 Barbican Centre Concert Hall, London, UK
MAR 24, 2006 Haus der Berliner Festspiele, Maerz Musik, Berlin, DE
APR 15, 2006 Casa da Musica, Porto, PT
JUN 7, 2006 Tokyo International Forum Hall C, Tokyo, JP
AUG 7, 2006 California Theater, San Jose, US
OCT 13, 2006 Arnolfini, Bristol, UK
APR 26-28, 2007 Teatro Out Off, Milan, IT
MAR 29, 2007 TDK Time Warp, Mannheim, DE
SEP 15, 2007 The Esplanade, Singapore City, SG
SEP 19, 2007 Art Beijing, Beijing, CN
OCT 5, 2007 Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, IE
OCT 10, 2007 Mutek, Mexico City, MX
NOV 30, 2007 Le Petit Faucheux, Tours, FR

directed by Ryoji Ikeda

concept, video, music: Ryoji Ikeda

computer graphics, video editing:  Shohei Matsukawa
Daisuke Tsunoda

commissioned by Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media (YCAM), 2004
produced by Forma
 
 
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This new piece is both a concert and a film that uses data as its material and theme, highlighting the ways in which data shapes our understanding of the world. Video images of landscapes are progressively abstracted into a language of data. Facts, figures and diagrams are used in a montage with dazzling graphic impact. The text excerpts elegantly punctuate the on-screen projections. Blurring the lines between nature, science and philosophy, the work subtly and hypnotically suggests the convergence of the real and the virtual. The soundtrack synchronises perfectly with the graphical and video images to create a piece of undeniable power and beauty. In this highly atmospheric work, Ikeda strives for an aesthetic of pure data. Derived from the natural world, from global systems such as economics and from research mathematics, data forms a new material for the artist's explorations. CI, in its meticulous composition and technical sophistication, reveals sublime views of reality.








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