Yuichiro Katsumoto

Yuichiro Katsumoto is a media artist and educator based in Saitama, Japan. He builds kinetic artworks and playful physical interfaces that give everyday materials unexpected forms of expression, turning threads, springs, chains and needles into moving letters, shifting images and objects that respond to people.

Writing and drawing turn the world into lines on a surface; Katsumoto reverses the process, releasing lines back into physical space through custom-built mechanisms. His work has been presented at ACM SIGGRAPH, Ars Electronica, Sónar+D, FILE and the ArtScience Museum in Singapore, and has won an Excellence Award at the Japan Media Arts Festival, the Tokyo TDC Prize and a Platinum A’ Design Award; he is a professor at Tokyo Denki University.