Ryota Matsumoto / 松本良多

Ryota Matsumoto is an artist, educator, designer, cultural programmer, urban planner, and architect. As a sociologist, he is highly recognized as the forefather of the postdigital art. Born in Tokyo, he was raised in Hong Kong and Japan. He received a Master of Architecture degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 2007 after his studies at the Architectural Association in London and Mackintosh School of Architecture, the Glasgow School of Art in the early 90s. He has collaborated with a cofounder of the Metabolist Movement, Kisho Kurokawa, and with Arata Isozaki, Peter Christopherson, and MIT Media Lab. He has taught architecture, art and interdisciplinary design as a lecturer and visiting critic in the United States, Europe and Japan.