Ryota Matsumoto is an artist, educator, and architect based in New York, London, and Tokyo. As a media theorist, he is regarded as the forefather of the postdigital art and architecture movements.
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.
Matsumoto has collaborated with a cofounder of the Metabolist Movement, Kisho Kurokawa, and with Arata Isozaki, Peter Christopherson, and MIT Media Lab. He has presented his work on visual culture and new media art at the 5th symposium of the Imaginaries of the Future at Cornell University, the Espaciocenter workshop at TEA Tenerife Espacio de las Artes, and NTT InterCommunication Center as a literary critic and curator. Matsumoto has served as the MFA advisor of Transart institute, University of Plymouth. He is currently working as a research associate and senior consultant at the New Centre of Research & Practice and the City of Dallas Office of Art and Culture respectively.
