Grégory Chatonsky

After completing studies in Visual Arts and Philosophy at La Sorbonne Pantheon-Sorbonne University, Grégory Chatonsky began his master's degree at the ENSBA and at ENST finishing in 1999. In March 2016 he was awarded his PhD from Université du Québec à Montréal for his dissertation: Aesthetics of flows (after digital).

Produced at the C³ Center for Culture & Communication Foundation (with Reynald Drouhin) and at Biennale d’art contemporain de Montréal, Revenances (1999) was an online performance work that invited the viewer to slow down their browsing and consider glitches and pauses as spaces where "ghosts" may interact.

Grégory Chatonsky is one of the early practitioners of Internet art having founded in 1994 incident.net, an Internet art collective exploring the notions of the accidental, the glitch and unpredictability. During this early period of internet he created the website of Centre Georges Pompidou. From 1994 to 1997, Chatonsky, researched, wrote the screenplay and produced the CD-ROM, Mémoires de la Déportation, about deportations and the Holocaust in France. From the mid-nineties Chatonsky produced films, audios and code-based work for the internet, including Counter (1995), a website that existed solely to count visitors, 2fresh (1997), a snippet of HTML script, and La Vitesse du Silence (1999), a netart performance piece.

Grégory Chatonsky (May 4, 1971) is a French and Canadian Artist who works with interactive installations, networked devices, photographs and sculptures. He explores the relationship between technologies and affectivity creating new forms of fiction.