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  • db -
    Ikeda's sound installation in an anechoic chamber is intended to quite physically explode the senses. Using the highest and lowest frequencies that human ears can bear, db is a hyper-dense composition of sine waves, white noise and other elements,...
  • The luminal tunnel of Eero Saarinen's TWA Terminal at JFK International Airport was always the perfect symbolic experience of the future. With its plunging vanishing point and soaring roofline, Saarinen's theatrical passage embodied, if not created,...
  • spectraII -
    The installation relies on the intersection of sound and architecture and continues Ikeda's interest in phenomena - be they light, tone or sound - and how they materialise and manifest themselves in the world. The piece is built as a narrow,...
  • spectra -
    date | place

    MAY 4 - JUN 20, 2001 Mica Moca, Milan, IT

    concept, composition: Ryoji Ikeda

    commissioned by Mica Moca, 2001


    spectra is a series of large scale installations employing intense white light as a sculptural material. The...
  • date | place

    OCT 2-7, 2001 Centraal Musuem, Utrecht, NL

    concept, composition: Ryoji Ikeda

    commissioned by Impakt Festival, 2001
  • JAN 28 - MAY 21, 2000 ICC, Tokyo, JP
    AUG 23 - SEP 26, 2003 Voormalig Gerechtsgebouw, Utrecht, NL

    concept, composition: Ryoji Ikeda

    commissioned by NTT InterCommunication Center (ICC), 2000

  • A -
    date | place

    APR 26 - JUN 18, 2000 Hayward Gellery, London, UK



    tech spec

    speaker HHB Circle 5 8
    power amplifier non-specific 4
    8ch HD playback system AKAI DR8 1
    white wall non-specific 2
    white...
  • The museum is redesigning part of its exhibition space, Science Storms, a major new section , opens 18 March 2010.

    My work, String Waves, will be part of the new collection.

    Installation was completed in early December 2009. These images show...
  • Kopernicus Center -
    Warsaw 2010. Brand new science centre opening in Warsaw, autumn 2010. The first science centre to open in Eastern Europe. Computer rendering: triple installation.

  • Notes on Preliminary Plan and Accompanying Images.
    • The public enter through a gently curved corridor allowing time for their eyes to adjust to the low light level and obscuring the view ahead of the Forest.

    • Choice of paths to give a...