Photo documentation from Ryoji Ikeda's exhibition "Supersymmetry" at Kumu Art Museum

January 19, 2016
Author Echo Gone Wrong
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Ryoji Ikeda, Supersymmetry, 2016, installation view, Kumu Art Museum. Photo: Stanislav Stepashko /Art Museum of Estonia

Exhibition “Supersymmetry” from 11th of December, 2015 till 28th of February at Kumu Art Museum.

Ryoji Ikeda’s concert “Supercodex” 12.02.2016 at 8pm

Ryoji Ikeda’s (b. 1966) exhibition project “Supersymmetry” is the artist’s vision of the physical nature of our world. Ikeda’s installation is based on the theory of supersymmetry, originating in particle physics; it attempts to explain via elementary particles – bosons and fermions – why the particles have mass.

The research into supersymmetric particles is being conducted near Geneva at CERN, the world’s largest particle physics laboratory. The collisions of composite particles initiated in the Large Hadron Collider will hopefully shed light on these new particles.

Ikeda’s “Supersymmetry” is an installation that grew out of his audiovisual performance superposition (2012–…), which was created in 2014–2015 during an art residence at CERN.

He is the winner of the Prix Ars Electronica Collide@CERN 2014 for “supersymmetry”.

Supersymmetry:

Ryoji Ikeda: concept and composition
Norimichi Hirakawa: programming, computer graphics, mechanics, optics, device design and technical management
Tomonaga Tokuyama: programming, computer graphics, computer system design and technical management
Yoshito Onishi: programming, computer graphics and electronics design
Cooperation with: Gallery Koyanagi, Tokyo
Equipment cooperation: Mix Wave, Inc., Bell-Park Co., Ltd.
Co-developed with: YCAM InterLab
Co-produced by Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media [YCAM], le lieu unique, scène nationale de Nantes, Ryoji Ikeda Studio

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Ryoji Ikeda, Supersymmetry, 2016, installation view, Kumu Art Museum. Photo: Stanislav Stepashko /Art Museum of Estonia

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Ryoji Ikeda, Supersymmetry, 2016, installation view, Kumu Art Museum. Photo: Stanislav Stepashko /Art Museum of Estonia

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Ryoji Ikeda, Supersymmetry, 2016, installation view, Kumu Art Museum. Photo: Stanislav Stepashko /Art Museum of Estonia

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Ryoji Ikeda, Supersymmetry, 2016, installation view, Kumu Art Museum. Photo: Stanislav Stepashko /Art Museum of Estonia

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Ryoji Ikeda, Supersymmetry, 2016, installation view, Kumu Art Museum. Photo: Stanislav Stepashko /Art Museum of Estonia

 

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Ryoji Ikeda, Supersymmetry, 2016, installation view, Kumu Art Museum. Photo: Stanislav Stepashko /Art Museum of Estonia

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Ryoji Ikeda, Supersymmetry, 2016, installation view, Kumu Art Museum. Photo: Stanislav Stepashko /Art Museum of Estonia

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Ryoji Ikeda, Supersymmetry, 2016, installation view, Kumu Art Museum. Photo: Stanislav Stepashko /Art Museum of Estonia

 

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Ryoji Ikeda, Supersymmetry, 2016, installation view, Kumu Art Museum. Photo: Stanislav Stepashko /Art Museum of Estonia

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Ryoji Ikeda, Supersymmetry, 2016, installation view, Kumu Art Museum. Photo: Stanislav Stepashko /Art Museum of Estonia

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Ryoji Ikeda, Supersymmetry, 2016, installation view, Kumu Art Museum. Photo: Stanislav Stepashko /Art Museum of Estonia

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Ryoji Ikeda, Supersymmetry, 2016, installation view, Kumu Art Museum. Photo: Stanislav Stepashko /Art Museum of Estonia

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Ryoji Ikeda, Supersymmetry, 2016, installation view, Kumu Art Museum. Photo: Stanislav Stepashko /Art Museum of Estonia

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Ryoji Ikeda, Supersymmetry, 2016, installation view, Kumu Art Museum. Photo: Stanislav Stepashko /Art Museum of Estonia

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Ryoji Ikeda, Supersymmetry, 2016, installation view, Kumu Art Museum. Photo: Stanislav Stepashko /Art Museum of Estonia