Ryoji Ikeda


Ryoji Ikeda is a Japanese visual and sound artist who currently lives and works in Paris, France. Ikeda's music is concerned primarily with sound in a variety of "raw" states, such as sine tones and noise, often using frequencies at the edges of the range of human hearing. Rhythmically, Ikeda's music is highly imaginative, exploiting beat patterns and, at times, using a variety of discrete tones and noise to create the semblance of a drum machine. His work also encroaches on the world of ambient music and lowercase; many tracks on his albums are concerned with slowly evolving soundscapes, with little or no sense of pulse.
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Early life and education

Ryoji Ikeda was born in Gifu, Gifu Prefecture, Japan in 1966.

Career

In addition to working as a solo artist, he has also collaborated with, among others, Carsten Nicolai and the art collective Dumb Type. His work matrix won the Golden Nica Award in 2001.
In 2004, the dormant Saarinen-designed TWA Flight Center at JFK Airport briefly hosted an art exhibition called Terminal 5 curated by Rachel K. Ward and featuring the work of 18 artists including Ikeda. The show featured work, lectures and temporary installations drawing inspiration from the idea of travel — and the terminal's architecture. The show was to run from October 1, 2004 to January 31, 2005 — though it closed abruptly after the building itself was vandalized during the opening party.
In May – June 2011 a presentation of three of the artist's immersive audio/visual projects, The Transfinite, was exhibited at the Park Avenue Armory.
In 2014, Ikeda was awarded the Prix Ars Electronica Collide@CERN 2014. As a result, he began his residency at CERN in July 2014 until 2015, during which he developed supersymmetry and micro | macro.
Ikeda was one of the artists, designers and architects presented in the group show Entangle / Physics and the Artistic Imagination at Bildmuseet, Umeå University, Sweden.

Discography

Recordings

1000 fragments +/- time and space 0 °C Mort Aux Vaches 99: Variations For Modulated 440 Hz Sinewaves matrix . op. dataplex test pattern dataphonics id supercodex Live at White Cube The Solar System code name: A to Z music for percussion music for percussion music for installations vol.1 music for installations vol.2
  • ''ultratronics''

As Part of Dumb Type

S/N Teji Furuhashi / Dumb Type - 1985-1994 OR
  • ''Memorandum''

Compilations

  • "Preamble", Silence
  • "Radio-Range", "Zone 3", "Zone 4", "Zone 1" & "Preamble ", Document 02 - Sine
  • "Untitled", Statics
  • "Headphonics 1/1", Mesmer Variations
  • "Untitled 071295", A Fault in the Nothing
  • "What's Wrong", "Test No. 1" & "Abstructures", Atomic Weight
  • "One Minute", Tulpas
  • "Headphonics 0/0", Touch Sampler 2
  • "Untitled", RRR 500
  • "Interference", Meme
  • "Interference 001", Chill Out
  • " Installation", Just About Now
  • "Interference 003", Modulation & Transformation 4
  • "C ::Coda ", ONE :SOUND 001: 00:00-50:00
  • "The Great American Broadcast", End ID
  • "Zero Degrees ", Sonar 99
  • "Zero Degrees ", Microscopic Sound
  • "Zero Degrees", Prix Ars Electronica CyberArts 2000
  • "Matrix ", Touch 00
  • "0* :: Zero Degrees ", Sonic Boom: The Art of Sound
  • "Cyclo cycle", New Forms - Compilation
  • "Untitled ", Disney Age @ D_100 Cafe
  • "ringtone_1 / ringtone_2" & "unobtainable", Ringtones
  • "One Minute", An Anthology Of Noise & Electronic Music / First A-Chronology
  • "Spectra II", Frequenzen / Frequencies
  • "Untitled 020402", KREV X - The Kingdoms of Elgaland-Vargaland, 1992–2002
  • "Abstructures", Ju-Jikan: 10 Hours of Sound From Japan
  • "0’12’’32" & "0’12’’34", Raster-Noton. Archiv 1
  • "Spectra II Edit", Frequencies
  • "3’33", Festival Voor Nieuwe Muziek > Happy New Ears 2004
  • "Untitled #25", Touch 25
  • "data.vortex", Mind The Gap Volume 62
  • "0’12’’32" & "0’12’’34", Notations Archiv 1
  • "Data.Syntax ", Festival Voor Nieuwe Muziek > Hapy New Ears 2007
  • "Headphonics 0/1 ", Dissonance Promo
  • "Back In Black", Recovery
  • "Test Pattern 0101", 14 Tracks: Between The Wires
  • "Dataphonics 10 Structure", Qwartz 7
  • "Supercodex 20", 14 Tracks: Digital Diaspora
  • ''tracks 1993–2011''

Publications

formula V≠L +/- dataphonics book+cd id datamatics book Ryoji Ikeda: micro | macro, 2015. Exhibition Catalogue.
  • ''Ryoji Ikeda | continuum''

Solo exhibitions

2002db, NTT InterCommunication Center, Tokyo, JP
2007data.tron, De Vleeshal, Middelburg, NL
2008datamatics, Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media, JP spectra, dream amsterdam 2008, Amsterdam, NLdata.tron, MIC Toi Rerehiko, Media and Interdisciplinary Arts Centre, Auckland, NZV≠L, Le Laboratoire, Paris, FR
2009data.tron , Ars Electronica Center, Linz, AT+/- , Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, JP data.tron, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, UK
2010spectra , Grec Barcelona Festival and Sonár, Barcelona, ESthe transcendental, French Institute Alliance Française, New York, UStest pattern , Théâtre de Gennevilliers, FR
2011the transfinite, Park Avenue Armory, New York, US datamatics, Museo de Arte, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá, CO
2012db, Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, DE datamatics, LABoral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial, Gijón, ES data.anatomy , KRAFTWERK, Berlin, DERyoji Ikeda, DHC/ART, Montréal, CA
2013data.scan , MU and STRP Biennale, Eindhoven, NLtest pattern , FRAC Franche- Comté, Besançon, FRtest pattern , Carriageworks/ISEA2013/VividSydney, Sydney, AUdata.tron , Wood Street Galleries, Pittsburgh, USdata.path, Espacio Fundación Telefónica, Madrid, ESsystematics, Gallery Koyanagi, Tokyo, JP
2014supersymmetry, Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media, Yamaguchi, JPC⁴I , Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, CAsupersymmetry, le lieu unique, Nantes, FRtest pattern , Times Square, New York, USRyoji Ikeda, Salon 94, New York, UStest pattern , Red Bull Music Academy – Spiral Hall, Tokyo, JPRyoji Ikeda, House of Electronic Arts Basel, CH
2015data.tron/data.scan, SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah, USsupersymmetry, The Vinyl Factory, London, UKmicro | macro, ZKM, Karlsruhe, DEdatamatics, Espai d’art contemporani de Castelló, ESsupersymmetry, KUMU Art Museum, Tallinn, EE
2016data.matrix , Wood Street Galleries, Pittsburgh, USdata.scape, ICC Sydney, Sydney, AU
2017A |A, Los Angeles
2018Ryoji Ikeda | continuum, Centre Pompidou, Paris, FRmicro | macro, Carriageworks, Sydney, AURyoji Ikeda: code-verse, Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow, RU
  • Ryoji Ikeda, Eye Filmmuseum, Amsterdam, NL
2021
2023
  • Ryoji Ikeda, Amos Rex, Helsinki, Finland
2024Ryoji Ikeda, Almine Rech, Brussels, Belgium
  • Ryoji Ikeda, ERM, Tartu, Estonia

Other references

  • Jennings, Gabrielle. Abstract Video, The Moving Image In Contemporary Art 2015. University of California Press.
  • Fairley, Gina. “Superposition: Ryoji Ikeda” Visual Arts Hub. Retrieved 2 February 2017.
  • O’Hagan, Sean. “Spectra: The Dazzling Column of Light Over London” The Guardian. 5 August 2014.
  • Harris, Mark. “London, Ryoji Ikeda” Art Forum. Retrieved 2 February 2017.
  • Holmes, Natalie. “Bending Waves of Sound and Light” New Scientist. 16 February 2012. https://www.newscientist.com/blogs/culturelab/2012/02/bending-waves-of-sound-and-light.html
  • Zeppetelli, John. “Ryoji Ikeda: a survey” Domus. 26 October 2012.
  • Budick, Ariella. “Intimacy on a grand scale” Financial Times. 27 May 2011.
  • Mignon, Oliver. “Ryoji Ikeda Gallery Koyanagi” Art Forum. March 2011.
  • Smith, Steve. “The Noises of Modern Life, Ending in a Bombardment” The New York Times. 12 September 2010
  • Tcherepnin, Sergei. “Materialisations of the Immaterial” The Brooklyn Rail. 9 July 2009.