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RYOJI IKEDA data.scan [n°1b-9b]: Year: 2011 / 2022
Medium: LCD monitor display, computer
Dimensions: 61.1 x 35.6 cm (24 x 14 in.) each, a set of 9
Acquired from TARO NASU, 2022

The core of this work is the torrent of a large number of data displayed on 9 monitor displays. For Ikeda, who calls himself a composer, the common thread that runs through his work in both music and visual art is the construction of universality observable through data. This work was created as part of a project titled “datamatics,” which has been ongoing since 2006. Assuming data is the smallest unit representing the world, the expanse of infinity will emerge by increasing the pixel resolution in the case of visible light or frequency in the case of audible sound to the utmost limit. Ikeda expresses it as “invisible and diverse substantiality," while humans treat data as a rational index to visualize invisible entities. In this work, although each of the 9 monitor displays shows different visuals, they are manipulated by a computer to visualize some form of data in a two-dimensional display. As a result, they are presented as a model of multidimensional space. Faced with flooding information that far surpasses human processing capabilities, viewers may not question what these data mean. Instead, one can only confront the fact with awe akin to sublimity, that these correctly invisible concepts observed through vast amounts of information and calculation are being expressed as visible phenomena. This work was exhibited at the solo exhibition at the Hirosaki Museum of Contemporary Art in 2022 and Okayama Art Summit 2022 in the same year.

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