Japan’s leading electronic composer and visual artist, Ryoji Ikeda orchestrates sound, visuals, physical phenomena and mathematical notions into immersive live performances and installations. Ikeda’s projects include 'datamatics' using the moving image, sculpture, sound and new media to explore our perception of the data that permeates our world; and 'spectra' a large-scale installations employing intense white light as a sculptural material and transforming public locations in Amsterdam, Paris, Barcelona and Nagoya. Ikeda has performed and exhibited worldwide including the Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Melbourne; MIT, Boston; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Sónar Festival Barcelona; Tate Modern, London; Art Beijing; Museo de Arte, Bogota; and Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, among many others. His albums +/-, 0°C, matrix, dataplex, and test pattern, have pioneered a new minimal world of electronic music. matrix won the Golden Nica Award at Ars Electronica in 2001.

UMS Performance

Ryoji Ikeda's superposition Friday, October 31, 2014, 8:00 pm Saturday, November 1, 2014, 8:00 pm Power Center

In Partnership with the University Musical Society (UMS).


Established with the generous support of alumna Penny W. Stamps, the Speaker Series brings respected emerging and established artists/designers from a broad spectrum of media to the School to conduct a public lecture and engage with students, faculty, and the larger University and Ann Arbor communities. Additional support is provided by series sponsors Michigan Radio, WUOM 91.7 FM and Arts @ Michigan.

Unless otherwise noted, all programs take place on Thursdays at 5:10 pm at the historic Michigan Theater, located at 603 E. Liberty Street in downtown Ann Arbor, and are free of charge and open to the public.