Ryoji Ikeda is a renowned producer and composer of S/N and OR for the multimedia art group Dumb Type in the early 1990s. Working convincingly across both visual and sonic media, Ikeda gained reputation as an interdisciplinary media artist. His installations and performances offer the experience of trans-digital immersion with sound sculptures. He uses sine waves, white noise and dramatic visible digital projections that display micro transformations of both pixels and data. The sine wave is a continuum of total purity and predictability, and white noise expresses total randomness.
The installation sphere places the audience in a unique position between these two sound territories. Throughout his long-term projects like datamatics (2006) and test pattern (2008), he exposed critical points beyond the human perception of sounds that occupy the world, visible elements and data. Ikeda built recognition as a global artist through participating in experimental exhibitions at the Transfinite at Park Avenue Armory in New York 2011 and db convened at Hamburger Bahnbof earlier this year.
