EXHIBITION
Exhibition
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DXP (Digital Transformation Planet): Towards the Next Interface
2023.10.7(Sat.) - 2024.3.17(Sun.)
Eating the digital!? Technology that integrates with the body How will digital technology change our way of life and sensibilities? This question has been asked repeatedly since the 20th century. In 2023, we may answer this question: a completely different planet is about to emerge. On this planet which has entered the Anthropocene, we are immersed in an invisible network. Our lives are partly (and getting more and more) controlled by AI, and the relationship between technology and life is being generated anew every day. DXP is an exhibition/interface that brings together artists, architects, scientists, programmers, and others to capture this transformation across disciplines, understand what is happening now, and propose it as something that can be sensed. The contemporary realities of AI, metaverse, and big data are the technologies of the moment. DXP is a vision of the future that follows it, explores the possibility of a comprehensive way of life that includes food, clothes, and habitation. Yuko Hasegawa, Yuu Takagi, Mio Harada, Yishu Hang, Jin Motohashi
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Collection Exhibition 2：Electricity-Sound
2023.11.18(Sat.) - 2024.5.12(Sun.)
Today, we live with all kinds of sounds, from natural environmental sounds to man-made electronic ones. Sound has the power to connect us to the world not only through the mere act of hearing/listening, but also through our bodily senses. In the museum’s collection, works with a deep relationship to sound are inseparable from electricity, which is both a natural phenomenon and an element of energy. This is because electricity is essential to the recording and reproduction of sound. Therefore, this exhibition will focus on both sound and electricity and the relationship between them, and train our ear, so to speak, to the electrical connections that emanate from these works. The exhibition will also explore trends in art where invisible sounds have been transformed into traces, drawings, electrical signals, and data. The process of giving form to sound and the methodologies by which it is transformed are closely related to the evolution of sound reproduction technologies such as recorders and players, and their development promises to highlight issues related to contemporary ar t in general, such as recording and reproduction, and preservation and restoration. Through these themes, this exhibition introduces works from the collection that are not merely sound art, but also relate to a wide range of fields such as science and philosophy, and which unfold visually and acoustically. Takagi Yuu (Assistant Curator)
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Special Exhibition
Ryoji Ikeda
2023.11.18(Sat.) - 2024.5.12(Sun.)
The 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa will present a special exhibition of Ryoji Ikeda in conjunction with this year’s theme, “Art x New Technology.” Ryoji Ikeda is an internationally acclaimed artist and composer whose diverse range of activities include immersive concerts and installations based on meticulous research, as well as performing arts and public art. Since the early 2000s, Ikeda has been exploring forms of artistic expression that seek to perceive the world from new perspectives, by working with big data in the natural sciences in creative ways. At this exhibition, Ikeda presents the new installation data.gram [n°6], consisting of 23 video works, some of which have never been exhibited before. “data.gram” is a new series that recomposes Ikeda’s large-scale audiovisual installation, the “data-verse” trilogy (2019-2020), from the ultramicroscopic world of invisible elementary particles to the ultramacroscopic world lying at the very end of the observable universe, in an attempt to explore the various scales found in the natural world. This new work will provide an opportunity to test our own perception and awareness of the harmony and chaos of the natural world.
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