PROFILE

Profile portrait of Youtaro Sakamoto

Youtaro Sakamoto

Artist / Researcher / Engineer

坂本陽太郎は、素材、影、触覚、知覚のあいだに生まれる痕跡を扱うアーティスト/研究者/エンジニアです。 材料科学、制御技術、パラメトリックデザイン、デジタルファブリケーションを横断しながら、 物質が作用し、変化し、痕跡を残す過程を作品として立ち上げています。

Youtaro Sakamoto is an artist, researcher, and engineer working across material, shadow, touch, and perception. Drawing on materials science, control engineering, parametric design, and digital fabrication, he creates installations and objects that reveal how materials act, change, and leave traces.


AVAILABLE FOR

Exhibitions and art festivals

Commissioned installations

Spatial and lighting works

Research collaborations

Talks, workshops, and lectures

Creative technology consulting


EXPERTISE

Material Research

Materials science-based exploration of texture, transparency, surface, and physical behavior.

Parametric Design

Computational form-making using parametric modeling, geometry, repetition, and structural systems.

Digital Fabrication

Prototyping and production through 3D printing, hand fabrication, mechanical design, and embedded systems.

Interaction Design

Designing visual, tactile, and motion-based experiences that connect perception, body, and environment.


EDUCATION

2017 – 2021 Tohoku University, Faculty of Engineering

2021 – 2023 Tohoku University, Graduate School of Engineering, Department of Materials Science

2025 – Present Kyoto Institute of Technology, Advanced Fibro Science, Doctoral Student


PUBLICATIONS

Youtaro Sakamoto, Akihiro Ishii, Takashi Shiratori, Itaru Oikawa, Hitoshi Takamura, Electrochimica Acta, Volume 457, 2023, 142488, ISSN 0013-4686.


EXHIBITIONS

2023/6/23–6/25

科学 × 工藝の共創の発見 - 感性の現象、現象の感性を解く -

せんだいメディアテーク

2026/2/28–3/1

HOMEWORKS 2025 10th Anniversary

クリエイティブセンター大阪

2026/3/14–15

SNACKS SENDAI Vol.1

@even

2026/3/26

Kyoto Micro Maker Faire

Kyoto Institute of Technology

2026/5/1–3

SICF27

Spiral Hall


TALKS / EVENTS

Fab Meetup Kyoto vol.81

『材料と機能のあいだ』