Ryoji Ikeda
A Conversation
Thursday, October 30, 2014
5:10 pm
In-person Event
Michigan Theater
603 E Liberty St, Ann Arbor, MI 48104
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Penny Stamps Speaker Series
Open to the public
Free of charge
Japan’s leading electronic composer and visual artist, Ryoji Ikeda orchestrates sound, visuals, physical phenomena and mathematical notions into immersive live performances and installations. Ikeda’s projects include ‘datamatics’ using the moving image, sculpture, sound and new media to explore our perception of the data that permeates our world; and ‘spectra’ a large-scale installations employing intense white light as a sculptural material and transforming public locations in Amsterdam, Paris, Barcelona and Nagoya. Ikeda has performed and exhibited worldwide including the Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Melbourne; MIT, Boston; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Sónar Festival Barcelona; Tate Modern, London; Art Beijing; Museo de Arte, Bogota; and Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, among many others. His albums +/-, 0°C, matrix, dataplex, and test pattern, have pioneered a new minimal world of electronic music. matrix won the Golden Nica Award at Ars Electronica in 2001.
UMS Performance|
Ryoji Ikeda’s superposition
Friday, October 31, 2014, 8:00 pm
Saturday, November 1, 2014, 8:00 pm
Power Center
In Partnership with the University Musical Society (UMS).
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