I have not seen Ryoji Ikeda's present installation, although in photographs it looks impressive. I cannot, therefore, specifically respond to Jonathan Jones' critique of it. Generally speaking, I have some sympathy for his view, but in my experience, it is very easy to be critical of work and even to agree with the criticism of others but it is a very different matter to be positive and make clear what one does like or is inspired by. It is only on hearing which artists working on that edge between art and science Jonathan Jones would find inspiring, if any, that you begin to understand what he is about.
My response to this interesting question
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> On 27 May 2016, at 21:13, Malina, Roger <rxm116130@utdallas.edu> wrote:
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> Yasminers
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> Here is a very very negative review of Ryoji's Ikeda's art installation resulting from his cern residency
>
> https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/jonathanjonesblog/2015/apr/23/art-respond-science-cern-ryoji-ikeda-supersymmetry
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> Should art respond to science? On this evidence, the answer is simple: no way
> Japanese artist Ryoji Ikeda's installation Supersymmetry is inspired by his residency at Cern -
> but signifies little more than that physics is weird. Isn't it time we stopped expecting artists to understand the complexities of science?
>
> https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/jonathanjonesblog/2015/apr/23/art-respond-science-cern-ryoji-ikeda-supersymmetry
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> this is very much along the lines of my colleague Jean Marc Levy=Lebond's book 'Science is not art' where he attacks
> much of the mystification of art science practice
>
> the review ends with:
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> Art<https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/art> and science, we feel, should have something to say to each other. But perhaps they speak different languages after all. I don't speak the language of science too
> well, either, but I do know one thing: it is concerned with the wonder of nature. There is a depressing lack of wonder in this technically sophisticated but intellectually and emotionally empty art.
>
> would be interested in Yasminer reactions= has anyone seen the work ?
>
> roger malina
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