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Ryo Ikeshiro is a UK-based Japanese artist and writer whose work deals with sound, media and computation. He is interested in the artistic potential of computational technology and algorithmic processes as well as the cultural and political dimension of computation and media and their critique within art. His output includes audiovisual performances, interactive installations, electronic music, generative music and data visualisation and sonification. He has presented his works internationally in a wide range of contexts including exhibitions, festivals, concerts and screenings as well as academic conferences. He was part of the Asia Culture Center’s inaugural exhibition in Gwangju, South Korea, and his TeleText art pages have been broadcast on German, Austrian and Swiss national TV. He is a contributor to Sound Art: Sound as a medium of art, a forthcoming publication from ZKM Karlsruhe and Iannis Xenakis. La musique électroacoustique, he is featured in the Electronic Music volume of the Cambridge Introductions to Music series and his articles have been published in the journal Organised Sound. Recent works explore issues of race, gender, identity, diversity and net culture through using computer vision, singing voice synthesis software, found footage, onomatopoeia and “sound symbolism”. He has a PhD from Goldsmiths, University of London. The topic explored was real-time data visualisation and sonification – or live "audiovisualisation" – of emergent generative systems based on dynamical systems and fractals within the framework of audiovisual and computational art. He also works as a lecturer at the London South Bank University.