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Ryota Matsumoto (artist)

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Ryota Matsumoto (松本 良多, Matsumoto Ryōta) is a Japanese artist and media theorist.[1] He was born in Tokyo, Japan. He had been an adjunct professor at the Transart Institute for Creative Research, University of Plymouth from 2016 to 2018 and is a research associate at the New Centre of Research and Practice. He is known as the theorist of the postdigital art movement.[2]

Early life and Education

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He received a Master of Architecture degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 2007 after his undergraduate studies in art and design theory at Architectural Association School of Architecture in London [3] and Mackintosh School of Architecture, the Glasgow School of Art from 1992 to 1995.[4]

Works

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Matsumoto has received the Visual Art Open International Artist Award, Florence Biennale Mixed Media 2nd Place Award, Premio Ora Prize Italy 5th Edition, Premio Ora Prize Spain 1st Edition, The International Society of Experimental Artists Best of Show Award, Donkey Art Prize III Edition Finalist, Best of Show IGOA Toronto, Art Kudos Best of Show Award, Electronic Language International Festival Media Art Finalist,[5] Lynx International Prize Award, Lumen Prize Finalist, and Western Bureau Art First Prize as a new media artist.[6]

His works are in the permanent collections of the University of Texas at Tyler and the Center for Digital Narrative, the University of Bergen.

He had held solo exhibitions at BYTE Gallery at Transylvania University in 2015, Los Angeles Center for Digital Art in 2016, and Alviani ArtSpace, Pescara in 2017.[7]

References

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  1. ^ "In conversation Ryota Matsumoto". Insight of Ecological Art Journal. 3 March 2023. Retrieved 7 March 2023.
  2. ^ Berry, D. M. and Dieter (2015) Postdigital Aesthetics: Art, Computation and Design, pp. 15–17 London: Palgrave. ISBN 978-1137437198
  3. ^ Laura Allen and Luke Pearson (2016) Drawing Futures: Speculations in Contemporary Drawing, pp. 192–195 Riverside Architectural Press. ISBN 978-1988366043
  4. ^ "Architecture, Multi-Dimensional Domains & Tracing Paper". Smart Artist Hub. 3 January 2021. Retrieved 9 January 2021.
  5. ^ Ricardo Barreto and Paula Perissinotto (2015) FILE: Electric Language International Festival, pp. 205–206 SESI-SP editora.
  6. ^ "Interview with Ryota Matsumoto". Nunum.org. 7 March 2021. Retrieved 9 October 2022.
  7. ^ "The Art Theory after Digital". Createstyle, Musashino Art University Press. Retrieved 16 June 2020.