The Vinyl Factory, supersymmetry, Ryoji Ikeda, 2015
Photo credit: Jana
Chiello
Currently
being premiered by The Vinyl Factory at Brewer Street Car Park London is a
slick new work by international artist-composer Ryoji Ikeda. Supersymmetry draws on Ikeda’s residency at CERN, the world’s
largest particle physics research institute, an interesting place right?
The work explores the aesthetics of
quantum information theory and particle physics, now please no switching off or
yawning like you did in high school physics.
In the first of two pitch black spaces in Brewer Street Car Park, tiny
ball bearings move in complex, seemingly random ways across inclined light
boxes emitting intense white light. The
movements are simultaneously translated into rapidly changing, blinking data on
two 20m long screens and forty monitors in the next space. An immersive
disorientating collision of mutating, sound, text and visual data, the work is a
close interrogation at the intersection of music and visual art through
mathematics, quantum mechanics and logic.
* In particle physics, ‘supersymmetry’
is a theoretical mathematical model that helps explain why particles have mass,
and which is being tested in orchestrated experiments at CERN (Centre for
Nuclear Research).
Catch
supersymmetry before close of play on
Sunday 31st May, 2015.
The Vinyl Factory, supersymmetry, Ryoji Ikeda, 2015
Photo credit: Jana Chiello
RYOJI IKEDA
SUPERSYMMETRY
23rd April – 31st
May 2015
Brewer Street Car Park, Brewer
Street, London W1
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