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It’s a very difficult thing to get people excited about data from research or computer algorithms. But once you think outside the realms of typical thought familiar to your everyday mathematician, engineer, or computer scientists, that data has the potential to become something far more interesting and beautiful. Enter Ryoji Ikeda.

Mr. Ikeda is a sound artist currently residing in Paris, France. He blends the science of raw data collection and art together seamlessly in his modern and original art pieces. An example is his most recent piece at the Park Avenue Armory.

This behemoth of a display takes constantly streaming data in its purest, most raw form, and then translates it into something visually stunning and entrancing. Ikeda has essentially created a piece where visitors are confronted with data on a scale that defies comprehension, logic, or traditional thought. It gives a sense of the infinite, and a feeling of never ending flow.

To see a video of the display, please click here.

To see a timelapse of this beautiful giant being put together, click here.

To see another of his works (which is just as intriguing), click here.

-V