data.tron [8k enhanced version] ©ryoji ikeda 2008 Photo: Liz Hingley [reference image]

State of the video art

Paul Milligan, 20 April 2009

projectiondesign has supplied three DLP projectors to Japanese artist Ryoji Ikeda for use in a retrospective of his work. Ikeda uses both sound and visual imagery in his work, which is only display at the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo.

The show, entitled ‘+/- [the infinite between 0 and 1]', includes new commissions, sound works and large-scale audio visual projections.

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Three F32 series will be used to power ‘data.tron [3 SXGA+ version]', an expanded edition of Ikeda's floor-to-ceiling screen of art, which seeks to dazzle visitors with an array of binary data such as the numbers 0 and 1. First seen at art installations in Europe in 2007, ‘data.tron' forms part of the ‘datamatics' project, a series of experiments in various forms that seeks to materialise pure computer data, transforming it into new media experiences and challenging the way people perceive the digitisation of information.

In ‘data.tron', each individual pixel of the visual image is strictly calculated by mathematical principle, derived from a combination of pure maths and the vast sea of data present in the world. These images are projected onto a large screen.