Ryota Matsumoto
Ryota Matsumoto (1972) is an artist, educator, and progenitor of the postdigital art movement. He studied at the Architectural Association and Glasgow School of Art before graduating from the University of Pennsylvania with a Master of Architecture degree. 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 Japanese ingenious culture and construed the interlocking syntagmatic series of signifiers that comprised the multiplicity of the postdigital agency as the consumer culture 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.
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 Museum of Graphic Arts with Rosi Braidotti, and NTT InterCommunication Center as a critic and theorist.
Matsumoto is the recipient of Visual Art Open International Artist Award, 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, Lumen Prize Finalist, and Western Bureau Art Prize Honorable Mention. He was awarded the Gold Artist Prize from ArtAscent Journal, the 1st Place Prize from Exhibeo Art Magazine, and the Award of Excellence from the Creative Quarterly Journal of Art and Design in 2015 and 2016. His work 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, Post Digital Aethetics (Berry and Dieter ed.), 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]
- Interview, NUNUM Magazine, February 2020, [3]
- The Alchemy of Oblique Topography, Ryota Matsumoto, Interalia Magazine [4]
- Interview with Ryota Matsumoto, Marc Garrett, Furtherfield,[5]
- Interview Ryota Matsumoto, Made in Mind Magazine, Aptalab, Cosenza, Italy, January, 2019
- Interview, ArtDependence Magazine, Belgium, November 23, 2019 [7]
Offiicial Website
Ryota Matsumoto Studio [8]
