Ryota Matsumoto is an artist, educator, designer, cultural programmer, urban planner, and architect based in the United States and Japan. As a media theorist, he is highly recognized as the godfather and pioneer of the postdigital culture. 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. Over the years, he has studied with Manuel DeLanda, Vincent Joseph Scully Jr., Cecil Balmond, and Giancarlo De Carlo, among others. He 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.

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n.
A talk, a discussion, a dialogue;
(spec. in early use) a conference
between African tribes-people and
traders or travellers.
v.
To praise over-highly, flatter; to
cajole.
To persuade (a person) to do
something; to talk (a person) out
of or into something; to win (a per-
son) over with palaver.
To hold a colloquy or conference;
to parley or converse with.
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Cover Art: “The Indistinct Notion of an Object Trajectory” by Ryota Matsumoto
Back Cover Art: “Surviving in the Multidimensional Space of Cognitive Dissonance” by Ryota Matsumoto
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“The Frozen Air Evoked the Analogical Still of Ephermeral Swarms” by Ryota Matsumoto
“Hollow Ghosts for Those Restless Spirits” by Ryota Matsumoto

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6. “Stretched Into an Infinite Vapor of Spectral Resonance” by Ryota Matsumoto
“The High Overdrive and Its Indefinable Consequence”by Ryota Matsumoto
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“The Reverberant Ambience of Interperative Codes an Ancient Artifact” by Ryota Matsumto

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“The Light Breath of Wind at Dawn” by Ryota Matsumoto
“Solar Flares for Transient Modulation” by Ryota Matsumoto