Shōei Matsuda was born in 1986 and began his career in social media in 2010, garnering attention as an anonymous artist who has a significant impact on the masses and society. His events, instructions, and performances, which he creates collaboratively with people, are highly regarded as a practice that questions the subjectivity and authorship of the post-social media era and creates new communality by directly intervening in cities and society. Since 2020, he has started using his real name and has been attempting to update people's perceptions through conceptual and poetic practices on celebrities, economies, and landscapes in the network era, utilizing various media such as installations, sculptures, prints, and videos.

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Some of his notable solo exhibitions include "The Store" at Shibuya PARCO, Tokyo, "Extreme Conceptual" at Eukaryote, Tokyo, and "Magic Number" at TOH, Tokyo. Shōei has also participated in group exhibitions such as "It knows: When Forms Become Mind" at the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art in Kanazawa, Ishikawa, and "ATAMI ART GRANT" at Hotel ACAO in Shizuoka. In 2016, Shōei received the Prix Ars Electronica Awards of Distinction and was selected for the ISEA Hong Kong. He has also published works such as "A Field Guide to the Snowden Files" in Germany and "Cyberarts 2016" in Austria.

Shōei's work explores a wide range of themes and mediums, from contemporary art to technology and media. His work has been exhibited both in Japan and internationally, including in Austria, Germany, Hong Kong, and the Czech Republic.

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松田将英は1986年生まれ。2010年からソーシャルメディアで活動を開始し、大衆や社会に影響を与える匿名のアーティストとして注目を集めました。彼が人々と共同で作り上げるイベントやインストラクション、パフォーマンスは、ソーシャルメディア以降の主体性や作者性を問い直すものであり、都市や社会に直接介入することで新しい共同性を創出する実践として高く評価されています。2020年から本名で活動を開始し、インスタレーション、彫刻、プリント、映像など、様々なメディアを駆使して、ネットワーク時代のセレブリティ、経済、景観に対するコンセプチュアルで詩的な実践を通じて、人々の認識を更新する試みを行っています。