Large-scale performance (sound-scape and film) Ryoji Ikeda (Japan) Datamatics and CI4 (North American Premiere) Monday, August 7 @ 8:00pm The California Theater (345 South 1st Street)$25 tix @ 01sj.org Artist Reception to follow performance at Montgomery Hotel
“Ikeda blurs the lines between nature, science and philosophy. Sound and images synchronize subtly and hypnotically to create CI4, an atmospheric multimedia piece of power and beauty”. Melbourne Stage Review
A concert that is also a film… if you have ever wanted to travel through the dance of the planets, to know harmonics as composed equations of sight and sound, to watch the familiar surroundings of earth spiral down into the mysteries of mathematic expression then Ikeda’s work gives you insight and inspiration. The sound-scape fills the audience with sensation while the film provides visual accompaniment to the vibrating score. Datamatics is produced by forma, co-commissioned by AV and ZeroOne San Jose and ISEA2006, and supported by Arts Council England. CI4 is produced by forma, commissioned by Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media (YCAM), Japan, 2004 and supported by Arts Council England.
3-D Digital Media with Live Performance Builders Association and dbox (New York, NY) Super Vision Thursday-Friday, August 10-11 @ 8pm; Saturday @ 3pm California Theater (345 South 1st Street) $35 tix @ 01sj.org
Super Vision is a collaboration between the New York-based performance and media ensemble The Builders Association and dbox, a multidisciplinary studio whose work explores the intersection of visual arts and architecture through 3D digital media. Super Vision explores the changing nature of our relationship to living in a post-private society where personal electronic information is constantly collected and distributed. In telling three interwoven stories, Super Vision makes the invisible world of data dazzlingly visible, radically redefining the identity of each character as they are viewed through the prism of the datasphere. This is the hidden context of our contemporary world. But the rules of this new data world are unclear—where will it take us? And who will we become?
