“test pattern” by Ryoji Ikeda

Title:

test pattern

Artist(s) and People Involved:

Exhibiting Artist(s):

Ryoji Ikeda

Symposium:

ISEA2013: 19th International Symposium on Electronic Art
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Artist Statement:

Carriageworks and ISEA2013, in collaboration with Vivid Sydney, present Ryoji Ikeda. A highlight of the program is the Australian premiere of test pattern, a stunning large scale immersive installation by renowned Japanese artist Ryoji Ikeda. Like many of Ikeda’s electrifying works, test pattern represents the intense energies of massive digital data flows that increasingly shape our globalised world. Ikeda recently staged a similar installation at The Armory in New York, described by The New York Times as a ‘sublime spectacle’ and ‘spectacular, trippy and fun’. New York Magazine described Ikeda’s work as ‘an extreme and elaborate visual and sonic environment’. test pattern is a system that converts any type of data (text, sounds, photos and movies) into barcode patterns and binary patterns of 0s and 1s. Through its application, the project aims to examine the relationship between critical points of device performance and the threshold of human perception.