Ryoji Ikeda's Immersive Universe at Eye Filmmuseum

Ryoji Ikeda, born in Gifu, Japan in 1966, has established himself as an innovator in multimedia art, creating a symbiotic relationship between sound and moving image. His installation at Eye Filmmuseum in Amsterdam invites visitors to immerse themselves in projections of endless data strings covering walls and floor, recreating a universe where the human is both pixel and celestial body. The work includes Point of no return, conceived specifically for the museum. The exhibition runs until December 2, 2018. Eye Filmmuseum, designed by Austrian firm Delugan Meissl and opened in 2012, houses a collection of approximately 46,000 films, 500,000 photographs, and 41,500 scripts and posters. It also features pre-cinema devices like the phenakistiscope and anamorphosis generator, linked to contemporary installations such as Chalkroom by Laurie Anderson and Hsin-Chen Huang. A related video program, The Man Machine, including five works by Ikeda, will be shown at Eye Filmmuseum from October 18 to November 3.