聲形地境：香港 (2021) with MetaObjects 元物 South Galleries, M+ Tactile sound installation
Sonic Topologies: Hong Kong
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Ryo Ikeshiro (JP/UK/HK) is an artist, musician and researcher. His work explores the possibilities of meaning and context presented through sound as well as its materiality in relation to digital audio and audio technologies. His output includes installations and live performances in a variety of formats including immersive environments using multi-channel projections and audio, 360-video and Ambisonics (spatial audio), field recordings, interactive works, Teletext art and generative works.
He has presented his works internationally in a wide range of contexts including exhibitions, festivals, concerts and screenings as well as academic conferences. He was part of the Asia Culture Center’s inaugural exhibition in Gwangju, South Korea, his work is currently exhibited at the M+, Hong Kong, and his TeleText art pages have been broadcast on German, Austrian, Swiss and Finnish national TV. He is a contributor to Sound Art: Sound as a medium of art, a ZKM Karlsruhe/MIT publication, and his articles have been published in the journal Organised Sound.
In his works, techniques of sonification – the communication of information and data in non-speech audio – are harnessed in an artistic context, with algorithms and processes presented as sound to investigate computational creativity and the relationship between the audio and the visual. In addition, the manifestation of issues of identity and Otherness through sound and technologys is explored. Comparable processes to sonification are also used, such as ideophones in East Asian languages – words which evoke silent phenomena through sound. Recent works investigate uses of machine listening and directional audio technologies.
He is currently an Assistant Professor, MFACM Programme Deputy Leader and co-director of the spatial audio art/research unit SoundLab, at the School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong.
