PROFILE
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
Technical support for installation artworks
EXPERTISE
Material Research
Materials science-based exploration of texture, transparency, surface, and physical behavior.
Parametric Design
Geometric shape design using Rhinoceros.
Digital Fabrication
3D printing and circuit design, from concept to prototype validation.
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, Hikaru Nagano, Motion-Contingent Visual Texture for Modulating Exploratory Hand Movements, EuroHaptics 2026, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 16594, 2026, pp. 243–252.
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』