When the digital and the physical world meet, something magical happens. Time and space meet and are perceived simultaneously with multiple human senses. It’s a precursor of leaving behind the two-dimensional way of communicating we have experienced since the emergence of screen-based media. Nowadays information exists as raw data that can be transformed into any media, where its message and the way it is perceived equally define its form. 

Ryoji Ikeda’s works, including the large scale audiovisual installation data.tecture [5 SXGA+ version], show us the fragile balance between the substance of data and how we sense it.