An Interview with Artist, Ryota Matsumoto - Jung Katz March 2016

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Ryota Matsumoto (松本良多) is an artist, educator, designer, cultural programmer, urban planner, and architect. As a media theorist, he is highly recognized as the iconic pioneer of the postdigital culture.

He has collaborated with a cofounder of the Metabolist Movement, Kisho Kurokawa, and with Arata Isozaki, Peter Christopherson, and MIT Media Lab.

Matsumoto has presented his work on multidisciplinary design, visual culture, and urbanism to the 5th symposium of the Imaginaries of the Future at Cornell University, the Espaciocenter workshop at TEA Tenerife Espacio de las Artes, New Media Frontier Lecture Series at Oslo National Academy of the Arts, UCI Claire Trevor School of the Arts, iDMAa Conference 2017, Network Media Culture Symposium at CCA Kitakyushu, and NTT InterCommunication Center as a literary critic and media theorist. He curated the exhibition, Posthumanism, Epidigital, and Glitch Feminism at Machida City Museum of Graphic Arts in 2020.

As a composer, video producer and graphic designer, he has worked with Peter Christopherson of Coil and Throbbing Gristle for Japanese Nike commercial, his album, Form Grows Rampant, and early sessions of Amulet Edition.

His academic career started as a teaching assistant for Vincent Joseph Scully Jr. and his seminar, the Natural and Manmade in 1993. During his visiting fellowship at the Glasgow School of Art, he has been engaged in research on the process of integrated urban regeneration under the guidance of Giancarlo De Carlo and Isi Metzstein. He continued his pursuit in urban studies and participated in seminal research projects with MIT Media Lab and KieranTimberlake exploring high-rise modular housing, sustainability, and design interventions for Dhaka, Bangladesh in 2005.

Matsumoto has served as the MFA lecturer at Transart Institute, University of Plymouth. He works as a research associate and senior consultant for the New Centre of Research & Practice and the City of Dallas Office of Art and Culture respectively. Matsumoto is an honorary member of the British Art Network. 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.

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 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 Finalist, Lynx International Prize 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 work, writings, and interviews were published 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, Monoskop, Carbon Culture Review, KooZA/rch, Supersonic Art, Post Digital Aesthetics (Berry and Dieter ed.), Drawing Discourse (University of North Carolina Asheville), Highlike (SEPI-SP editors), and Drawing Futures (The Bartlett UCL), among others.

Matsumoto’s multidisciplinary projects have been exhibited recently at Meadows Gallery University of Texas at Tyler, S. Tucker Cooke Gallery University of North Carolina Asheville, Sebastopol Center for the Arts, National Museum of Korea, CICA Museum, Van Der Plas Gallery, ArtHelix Gallery, Caelum Gallery, LAIR Gallery Lakehead University, Limner Gallery, the Cello Factory, University of the District of Columbia, Lux Art Gallery, Studio Montclair, Manifest Gallery, Center for Digital Narrative University of Bergen, Tenerife Espacio de las Artes, Art Basel Miami, ISEA International, FILE Sao Paulo, Nook Gallery, and Arts and Heritage Centre Altrincham. He had solo exhibitions at BYTE Gallery Transylvania University (2015), Los Angeles Center of Digital Art (2016), and Alviani ArtSpace, Pescara (2017).

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Search... HOME ABOUT JUNG KATZ SUBMIT ! " # $ & ♥ JUNG KATZ ON INSTAGRAM INTERVIEW WITH ARTIST, RYOTA MATSUMOTO Jung Katz 1,855 likes March 16, 2016 by Casey Webb Liked How did you get started doing what you do? I spent most of my childhood and the better part of my 20’s in Hong Kong, the United States, and Britain. My experience of living and studying abroad at an early age has certainly fostered my creativity and helps me to approach things from multiple angles. My interest in technology, science and art initially led me to take up architecture as my profession. While I practice as a designer, I always paint whenever time allows. I always feel that both fields have certain similarities in terms of creative outlets and complement each other well as far as the methods of visual communication are concerned. Suffice it to say that art and architecture share a lot in common in terms of engaging with forms, structures and color. So I could say both pathways merged naturally for me ever since I graduated from the college. Contact Us You and 5 other friends like this FOLLOW OUR EIC ON PINTEREST Casey Webb Follow On ! " # $ ♥ '

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How would you describe your creative style? I adopt and explore the digital hybrid technique, incorporating various constituent elements of architectural, graphic and mixed media conventions. Furthermore, I employ the juxtaposition of different forms/patterns, intertwined textures/tones, oblique/anamorphic projections and visual metamorphoses to question and investigate the nature of visual representation in the context of non-Euclidean configuration. The application of these strategies allows the work to transcend boundaries between analog and digital as well as between two- and multi-dimensional domains, while the underlying issue of precision, accuracy and the sense of realism, which are often associated with conventional architectural production, are clearly addressed.

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What’s your inspiration? I always define my artistic and architectural projects as a series of critical reflections and commentaries on our contemporary cultures and their influence on cities in visual, semiotic and narrative terms. My work is inspired by the spatiotemporal conditions of our ever-evolving urban and ecological environments, which are attributed to the multitudes of spatial practices, constructed by consumer societies in various forms. The whole nature of cities can be characterized by dichotomy and paradoxical relationship among organic and inorganic, structural and amorphous as well as micro-scale objects and large structures. These seemingly polar opposite elements could integrate with each other and morph into totally new structures of the spatial and temporal variations in my paintings. Furthermore, the paradox, contradiction and distortion of an alternate perception towards space and time have also been a constant subject of inspiration.

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How long does it typically take for you to finish a piece? It usually takes a week or two at the longest. Some of my work cycles through phases and takes several months to complete. In such cases, I disassemble/reassemble fragments of old drawings and found images, and then repeat the process over and over again until I find unpredictable dialogues among them. How do you keep motivated? I still work on architectural and urban design projects from time to time as I’ve completed a residential building earlier this year. Those experiences often turn out to be the source of great inspiration and motivation for my art-related projects. By continuing to work in both fields, I manage to strike an ideal balance between art and craft.

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What do you hope to accomplish with your work? Most of my work is meant to bridge the gap between architecture and art, two cultural realms, which reflect on the multitudes of contemporary socio-cultural outlooks and to transcend or merge the bounds of them as my own artistic expression. At any rate, my compositional methodologies imbue the drawings with the essential elements of our social and cultural realms beyond the conventional protocols of architectural and artistic formalities. What, if anything, would you tell your younger self? At first glance it might sound like a career detour, however, it is always helpful to go off the beaten path before starting out as an artist. In my case, my experience as an architectural designer and urban planner certainly helped me to break the mold and approach my work with a broad perspective. So I’d like to remind my younger self that we don’t have to hold onto preconceived notions and always stay open-minded. There are no shortcuts to finding your true purpose in life.

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What’s the best advice you’ve been given? As often quoted: “Don’t bend. Don’t water it down. Don’t try to make it logical. Don’t edit your own soul

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according to the trend. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.” That is probably the greatest piece of advice that Kafka gave to his posterity. What’s your dream project? I am always interested in fusing different media into my artistic expression and taking on an interdisciplinary approach. The work, which started out as a painting, could be transcoded as a blueprint for an interactive multimedia art project incorporating audio, web, video, installation and performance. What’s your process like? To begin with, I construct base 2D/3D images digitally and then add layers of traditional medias such as acrylic, ink, and graphite, as well as scanned images of found objects over them. Then they are further processed and manipulated through algorithmic, stochastic and morphological operations by various image processing software with plugins. The technique allows me to instill a warm human touch and painterly, organic feels to otherwise cold and detached precision of digitally generated drawings. Check out more work from Ryota Matsumoto here. March 16, 2016 in Art, Front Page, Illustration, Interviews ! " + ) CASEY WEBB A creative with a business mind, Casey is the Editor-in-Chief and Founder of Jung Katz. Connect with her on Twitter and Instagram| Read more articles by: Casey Webb « Previous Story Next Story » INTERVIEW WITH PAINTER, DAVID WIGHTMAN INTERVIEW WITH PAPER CUTTER, CHANTELLE BELL March 15, 2016 March 17, 2016 YOU MIGHT ALSO LIKE ARTIST INTERVIEW: SHANTANU SUMAN – GRAPHIC DESIGNER & CO-DIRECTOR OF HORN PLEASE INTERVIEW: CARL BEAZLEY – EXPERIMENTAL SURREALIST PORTRAIT PAINTER October 20, 2014 July 24, 2014 NO COMMENTS L E AV E A R E P LY Or Login with Facebook INTERVIEW WITH PAPER CUTTER, CHANTELLE BELL March 17, 2016

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