Design
A Mesmerizing 3-D Vision of New York as Pure Data
Skyscrapers are flashing monoliths, and cars are rushing rectangles.
Ryoji Ikeda is a Japanese artist and electronic musician known for his mathematical, almost monochromatic explorations of light and patterns. On a visual level, his stuff’s great for zoning out, but it’s often based on heavy scientific concepts—one recent room-devouring piece combined particle smashing with space-time symmetry with the European Organization for Nuclear Research.