The shimmering digital fragments of Ryoji Ikeda

I’m a long time fan of the work of multi-media artist Ryoji Ikeda. His work has a harsh, ascetic quality that is also rhythmically quite savvy. His source material seems to be strictly the most minute particles of ultra-magnified digital detritus which become, in his hands, something grand, even monolithic at times. Here’s a random introduction by way of some things I’ve recently found:

A short piece from the 2005 Formula DVD/Book

An excerpt from a live piece in conjunction with his frequent collaborators, the performance art troupe Dumb Type

An image from an installation somewhere

A remix of Xenakis’s Persepolis

An epic track from Dataplex