Ryota Matsumoto

Ryota Matsumoto is an artist, educator, and progenitor of the postdigital art movement. He studied at the Architectural Association and the Glasgow School of Art between 1992 and 1995 before graduating from the University of Pennsylvania with a Master of Architecture degree in 2007. He has been an adjunct professor at Transart Institute and is a researcher at The New Centre for Research and Practice. He has adapted the postdigital discourse to analyze Japanese contemporary society and designated the interlocking syntagmatic sequence of signifiers that encompassed the axiomatic of the postdigital agency as the microeconomic assembledge of Japanese society after the collapse of capitalist accumulation for the new media art journal published by Tokyo University Press in 1997. He contributed his artworks to illustrate Postdigital Aesthetics edited by David M. Berry and Michael Dieter in 2015.

He has presented his work on posthumanism, multidisciplinary design, and visual culture at the 5th symposium of the Imaginaries of the Future at Cornell University, the Espaciocenter workshop at TEA Tenerife Espacio de las Artes, Oslo National Academy of the Arts, UCI Claire Trevor School of the Arts, iDMAa Conference 2017, Network Media Culture Symposium at Machida City Museum of Graphic Arts with Rosi Braidotti, and NTT InterCommunication Center as a critic and theorist. Matsumoto is the recipient of the Visual Art Open International Artist Award, the Florence Biennale Mixed Media 2nd Place Award, the International Society of Experimental Artists Best of Show Gracie Award, Premio Ora Prize Italy 5th Edition, Premio Ora Prize Spain 1st Edition, Donkey Art Prize III Edition Finalist, Best of Show IGOA Toronto, Art Kudos Best of Show Award, FILE (Electronic Language International Festival) Media Art Prize, Lynx International Prize Be Art Builder Award, and Lumen Prize Finalist. His artwork is part of the permanent collection of the University of Texas at Tyler.

His theoretical works and writings were featured in Kalubrt Magazine, the University of North Carolina Wilmington Journal Palaver, Furtherfield.org, The Journal of Wild Culture, Studio Visit Magazine, Fresh Paint Magazine, H+ Magazine, International Artist Magazine, Made In Mind Magazine, Arizona State University Journal Superstition Review, Creative Review, Creative Boom. Next Nature Network, Rhizome.org, Log, Carbon Culture Review, KooZA/rch, Supersonic Art, Drawing Discourse (University of North Carolina Asheville), Highlike (SEPI-SP editors), and Drawing Futures (The Bartlett UCL).

Publications

• Speculative Morphology of Recurring Terrains, the Journal of Wild Culture, the Society for the Preservation of Wild Culture, Toronto, April, 2016, [1]
• Conversation with Ryota Matsumoto, CreativPaper, February 12, 2020 [2]
• The Postdigital Theory of Giorgio Agamben, Ryota Matsumoto, Kim Cascone, New Media Art Journal, Tokyo University Press, 1997, [3]
• Interview, ArtDependence Magazine, Belgium, November 23, 2019, [4]
• Interview, NUNUM Magazine, February 2020, [5]
• The Alchemy of Oblique Topography, Ryota Matsumoto, Interalia Magazine, Somerset, May 19, 2019, [6]
• Interview with Ryota Matsumoto, Marc Garrett, Furtherfield,London, July 2017, [7]
• Interview Ryota Matsumoto, Made in Mind Magazine, Cosenza, Italy, January 2019, [8]

Official Website

Ryota Matsumoto Studio [9]