The Transfinite
Ryoji Ikeda
May 20, 2011 - June 11, 2011
Wade Thompson Drill Hall
Following critically acclaimed installations by Ernesto Neto and Christian Boltanski, Ryoji Ikeda has been selected by the Armory for its third annual visual art commission in the Wade Thompson Drill Hall. Ikeda creates a visual and sonic environment where visitors are submerged in an extreme illustration of projected and synchronized data. His work uses scale, light, shade, volume, shadow, electronic sounds, and rhythm to flood the senses. In choreographing vast amounts of digital information, Ikeda conjures up a transformative environment in which visitors confront data on a scale that defies comprehension, experiencing the infinite.
Installation Hours
Tuesdays–Sundays: 12:00pm–7:00pm
Thursdays: 12:00pm–9:00pm
Memorial Day: 12:00pm–7:00pm
Member Viewing Hours: Saturdays from 11:00am–12:00pm
Closed Mondays
Production Advisory
This installation includes strobe effects.
“A huge, immersive, electronic light-and-sound installation by the internationally celebrated avant-garde composer Ryoji Ikeda, is spectacular, trippy and fun. It is hard to imagine anyone of whatever age not enjoying its sensational effects ... It’s like a walk-in, animated Op Art painting. Beautiful and absorbing to look at.”
The New York Times
“spectacular and overpowering”
ARTINFO
“The Armory is making a name for itself as a venue for gargantuan musical events. Ryoji Ikeda has turned the cavernous Wade Thompson Drill hall into a platform for a continuously modulating installation of pulsating, digitally processed sounds and sights to be experienced, strolling gallery style.”
The New Yorker
“Rocks the senses …the Drill Hall has lately become a playground for artists of outsized imaginations.”
The Financial Times
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Production Credits
Co-produced by Park Avenue Armory and Forma.
Related Events
Public Program
Saturday, May 21, 2011 at 2:00pm
Artist Talk: Ryoji Ikeda
Ryoji Ikeda in conversation with Kristy Edmunds.
Support
This program is supported by Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ, the E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Foundation, Ken Kuchin, Melva Bucksbaum and Raymond Learsy, and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council. Additional support provided by Jo Carole and Ronald S. Lauder, David Teiger, and The Surrey.
