Japanese artist Ryoji Ikeda’s ‘Transfinite’ is a over sized digital installation that explores the concept of infinity, and rationality. Located in New York’s Park Avenue Armory, ‘Transfinite’ features pulsating patterns of binary analysis of a soundtrack that creates a unique audio and visual experience. When asked about his work Ryoji stated, ‘To me, the purest beauty is the world of mathematics. Its perfect assemblage of numbers, magnitudes and forms persist, independent of us. The aesthetic experience of the sublime in mathematics is awe-inspiring. It is similar to the experience we have when we confront the vast magnitude of the universe, which always leaves us open-mouthed… this project explores the transfinite (the infinite that is quantitative and ordered) intersection that lies between such polarizations – the beautiful and the sublime; music and mathematics; performance and installation; composer and visual artist: black and white; 0s and 1s.’ Check out the images and video below, and as always, be sure to let us know what you think?






