Daito Manabe
アーティスト、DJ、プログラマー。2006年Rhizomatiks設立、2015年よりRhizomatiksの中でもR&D的要素の強いプロジェクトを行うRhizomatiks Researchを石橋素と共同主宰。プログラミングとインタラクションデザインを駆使して様々なジャンルのアーティストとコラボレーションプロジェクトを行う。米Apple社のMac生誕30周年スペシャルサイトにて11人のキーパーソンの内の一人に選出。ビートメーカーNosaj Thingとのコーチェラ・フェスティバル出演等、海外フェスにも多数招聘されるなど国際的な評価も高い。
Tokyo-based 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.