Looking Outwards-04

The project I am looking into this week is Ryoji Ikeda’s Test Pattern series. These projects are a series of installation pieces that use sound and black and white visuals to describe the flow of binary data, 1s and 0s. The pieces act as a magnifying glass into the extremely dense stream of data in our world. I find this work really fascinating because of how it immerses the viewer into the data stream. It not only does this visually, but also with sound. The world of technology which surrounds us now uses 1s and 0s to operate; however, we only see this from extremely far away. We are immersed in data everyday but not to the scale that is described in Test Pattern.