Ryota Matsumoto is an artist, educator, cultural programmer, photographer, urban planner, and architect based in New York and Tokyo. As a media theorist, he is highly recognized as the godfather of the postdigital culture. His sociological insights into new media discourses, which include epidigital theory, hybrid objects, AI, and posthumanism, draw inspiration from philosophers of technology, Bernard Stiegler, Michel Serres, and Gilbert Simondon.