Ryoji Ikeda - data-cosm [n°1] Exhibition Booklet

“I’ve no master or teacher, I’m totally free. I’m so lucky because I have nothing to lose.” - Ryoji Ikeda

Over more than a decade of collaboration, 180 Studios and The Vinyl Factory have developed an ongoing creative partnership with Ryoji Ikeda — one that continually expands the scale and ambition of a shared curiosity towards sound and light.

That ongoing exchange continued with the opening of data-cosm [n°1], a new, monumental installation commissioned and produced by 180 Studios - a “total sensory experience" that functions as both a microscope and a cosmos: a space where human perception meets the mathematical fabric of nature.

On the afternoon of the world premiere of data-cosm [n°1] on October 13, 2025, a crowd gathered at 180 Studios for a conversation between Ryoji, Philippe Vergne, Director of the Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art, and Sean Bidder, Creative Director of The Vinyl Factory and curator at 180 Studios. 

This unique booklet captures that conversation and offers a glimpse into the mind of one of the most uncompromising artists working today.