Sonowizualne strategie Ryoji Ikedy Ciało jako wielofunkcyjny instrument polisensoryczny
Ryoji Ikeda’s Sonovisual Strategies Body as a Multifunctional and Polysensory Instrument

Author(s): Piotr Zawojski
Subject(s): Theatre, Dance, Performing Arts, Fine Arts / Performing Arts, Music, Sociology of Art
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Summary/Abstract: Ryoji Ikeda is one of the most important artist of data in this moment. It is the art of contemporary infosphere which explores the world of invisible data that makes up our technocultural habitat. It is represented in the form of art of data (resp. data of art). In this article – among others – I present the most important thematic series of Ikeda works, such as datamatics, test pattern and a sort of culmination of previous research and artistic strategies which is an exhibition called the planck universe [micro|macro] organized in 2015 in the ZKM in Karlsruhe. Drawing inspiration from physics, mathematics, working with scientists (from CERN for example) Ikeda creates high-tech projects in the area of art@science. At the heart of its activities it is to practice what I call “logical emotions”. The paradox of “the logical emotions” lies in the fact that the artist is referring to scientific procedures and the use of hidden data that visualizes and sonificated at the same time appeals to the viewer of the body treated as a multifunctional and polysensory instrument. The context for my considerations is the Richard Shusterman’s concept of somaesthetics. Ikeda’s sonovisual experiments activate somatic or psychosomatic acceptance, which once David Bohm called “the principle of soma-significance”.

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