Daito Manabe

Tokyo-based media artist, interaction designer, programmer, and DJ.

Launched Rhizomatiks in 2006. Since 2015, has served alongside Motoi Ishibashi as co-director of Rhizomatiks Research, the firm’s division dedicated to exploring new possibilities in the realms of technical and artistic expression with a focus on R&D-intensive projects. Specially-appointed professor at Keio University SFC.

Manabe’s work in design, art, and entertainment takes a new approach to everyday materials and phenomenon. However, his end goal is not simply rich, high-definition realism by recognizing and recombining these familiar elemental building blocks. Rather, his practice is informed by careful observation to discover and elucidate the essential potentialities inherent to the human body, data, programming, computers, and other phenomena, thus probing the interrelationships and boundaries delineating the analog and digital, real and virtual.

A prolific collaborator, he has worked closely with a diverse roster of artists, including Ryuichi Sakamoto, Björk,OK GO, Nosaj Thing, Squarepusher, Andrea Battistoni, Mansai Nomura, Perfume and  sakanaction. Further engagements include groundbreaking partnerships with the Jodrell Bank Center for Astrophysics in Manchester, and the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), the world’s largest particle physics laboratory.

He is the recipient of numerous awards for his multidisciplinary contributions to advertising, design, and art.

Satoshi HORII

Satoshi HORII is a visual artist, programmer, interaction designer and web designer. He studied Media Art at Tokyo Zokei University and took DSP Course at IAMAS.

Rhizomatiks

Rhizomatiks was incorporated in 2006, committed to effecting wide scale social change by bridging the gulf to foster collaboration between media art, industry, and business. Over the past decade, the scope of their creative output has grown in tandem with media art’s increasingly pertinent role in society.

From the initial advertising/promotion, museum, and stage theatre projects, Rhizomatiks has come to provide expertise for a diverse range of projects running the gamut from Paris Fashion Week, to major musician concert tours, and even educational settings to cultivate the next generation of creators.