Images courtesy of Ryoji Ikeda © Kazuo Fukunaga / Kyoto Experiment, Kyoto Art Theater, ShunjuzaTwo years after mesmerizing Canadian audiences with an intensive exhibition at DHC/ART, as well as a C4I presentation during the previous BIAN digital arts biennial, Ikeda returns to Montreal on October 11 to present the North American premiere of Superposition at the Maisonneuve Theater. Presented by the Musée d'art Contemporain de [Montréal (MACM)](http:// http://www.macm.org/en/), Superposition combines an immersive visual environment with a minimalist aesthetic and a surgically-precise experimental soundtrack. It's a multisensory performance that uses data and generative visuals to plunge viewers inside the dynamic worlds of physics, mathematics, quantum mechanics, and their relationships to the complexities of human behavior. For Superposition, the Paris-based Japanese artist features a multitude of patterns, videos, point clouds, lines, text and sounds—generated live by two performers—that melt and superimpose against each other before expanding across 21 screens. “Engaged in a complex dialogue with the leading mathematicians of our age, Ikeda explores beyond the limits of human rationality and cognition in an aesthetic quest to achieve works of spare and sublime beauty,” says John Zeppetelli, MACM artistic director and chief curator. Breaking down the frontiers between art, science, and new technology, this Ikeda's creative onslaught even highlights new questions regarding the role of the museum in the digital era. “Ryoji Ikeda's Superposition is absolutely the kind of interdisciplinary work that the Musée d'art Contemporain wishes to present and promote,” adds Zeppetelli. It's the kind of initiative that bears witness to a desire to bring new audiences back into conventional institutional culture centers. Visitors to Montreal on October 11th will be able to witness Ikeda's data-powered blast, which will then continue its North American tour through the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, the University Musical Society in Ann Arbor, and at UCLA, in Los Angeles.Watch Superposition above, and below, check out images of the show in action:![]()
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