Ryoji Ikeda (池田 亮司 Ikeda Ryōji, born 1966)[1] 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.
In addition to working as a solo artist, he has also collaborated with, among others, Carsten Nicolai (under the name "Cyclo.") and the art collective Dumb Type. His work matrix won the Golden Nica Award in 2001.[2]
In 2004, the dormant Saarinen-designed TWA Flight Center (now JetBlue Terminal 5) at JFK Airport briefly hosted an art exhibition called Terminal 5[3] curated by Rachel K. Ward[4] and featuring the work of 18 artists[5] including Ikeda. The show featured work, lectures and temporary installations drawing inspiration from the idea of travel — and the terminal's architecture.[5] The show was to run from October 1, 2004 to January 31, 2005[5] — though it closed abruptly after the building itself was vandalized during the opening party.[4][6]
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.[7]
In 2014, Ikeda was awarded the Prix Ars ElectronicaCollide@CERN 2014. As a result, he began his residency at CERN in July 2014 until 2015, during which he developed supersymmetry and micro | macro.[8]
Ikeda was one of the artists, designers and architects presented in the group show Entangle / Physics and the Artistic Imagination (2018-11-16 - 2019-04-07) at Bildmuseet, Umeå University, Sweden.[9]
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. http://visual.artshub.com.au/news-article/reviews/visual-arts/gina-fairley/superposition- ryoji-ikeda-249435
O’Hagan, Sean. “Spectra: The Dazzling Column of Light Over London” The Guardian. 5 August 2014. https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2014/aug/05/ryoji-ikeda-spectra-first-world- war-artangel
Harris, Mark. “London, Ryoji Ikeda” Art Forum. Retrieved 2 February 2017. http://artforum.com/picks/id=52366
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. http://www.domusweb.it/en/art/2012/10/26/ryoji-ikeda-a-survey.html
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 https://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/13/arts/music/13fiaf.html?_r=0
Tcherepnin, Sergei. “Materialisations of the Immaterial” The Brooklyn Rail. 9 July 2009. www.brooklynrail.org/2009/07/music/materializations-of-the-immaterial
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^"TWA Terminal Named as One of the Nation's Most Endangered Places". Municipal Art Society New York, February 9th, 2004. Archived from the original on 2009-08-12.
^ ab"A Review of a Show You Cannot See". Designobserver.com, Tom Vanderbilt, January 14, 2005. Archived from the original on December 5, 2012.
^ abc"Now Boarding: Destination, JFK". The Architects Newspaper, September 21, 2004. Archived from the original on 2016-03-05.
^"Art Exhibition at JFK Airport's TWA Terminal Abruptly Shut Down". Architectural Record, John E. Czarnecki,, October 11, 2004. Archived from the original on December 5, 2012.
^Lindholm, Eric (June 2011). "Ryoji Ikeda Goes Big, Really Big". The Brooklyn Rail.
^"Japanese artist, Ryoji Ikeda, wins the third Prix Ars Electronica Collide@CERN | Arts@CERN". arts.cern. Archived from the original on 2016-03-30.
^"Entangle / Physics and the Artistic Imagination – Bildmuseet, Umeå". Archived from the original on 2018-12-16.
^"Ryoji Ikeda: the transcendental | Sept 11 to Oct 16 | FIAF Gallery | Crossing the Line 2010 | French Institute Alliance Française NYC". www.fiaf.org. Retrieved 2018-09-21.
^"RYOJI IKEDA the transfinite : Program & Events : Park Avenue Armory". Park Avenue Armory. Retrieved 2018-09-21.