Ryota Matsumoto Artist

As a transmedia artist and author, Ryota Matsumoto is internationally recognized as one of the progenitors of the postdigital art movement.

Born in Tokyo, he was raised in Hong Kong and Japan. He received a Master of Architecture degree from University of Pennsylvania in 2007 after his studies at Architectural Association in London, Mackintosh School of Architecture, Glasgow School of Art and University of Miami in early 90’s. Matsumoto has previously collaborated with a cofounder of the Metabolist Movement, Kisho Kurokawa, and with Arata Isozaki, Peter Christopherson, Cesar Pelli and MIT Media Lab before establishing his office. 

He has served as the MFA advisor of Transart institute, University of Plymouth and teaches at Asagaya College of Art and Design as a director of the Interdisciplinary Art + Design Lab. Matsumoto is a research associate at the New Centre of Research & Practice found by Mohammad Salemy, Jason Adams and Reza Negarestani. He has been active as a guest critic on design reviews at Cornell University, Cooper Union, Columbia GSAPP, Rhode Island School of Design and Pratt Institute.

The new landscape of the post-industrial city has emerged with a socio-cultural milieu that is characterized by de-centralized, stratified and destabilized spatial cartography and controlled under the post-Fordism algorithmic hegemony.

In our collective consciousness, the pathogenetic substrate of the urban apparatus is where the individual has been embedded psychologically and correlates with the mesh work of neuro-economical abstraction, experiencing debilitating alienation and psychosomatic dislocation.

The regime of neuro-capitalism disintegrates the preceding modalities of social collectivity in favor of network-based immaterial connectivity. It depersonalizes urban dwellers in favor of the sensorial data of neural subsumption and the digital economy.