Gregory Chatonsky is a French artist based in Montreal and Brussels.

• PhD of arts studies and practices : « Esthétique des flux : après le numérique » (UQAM, 2016)
• Master of Multimedia and Hypermedia Art : « Le design contre le netart » (ENSBA-ENST, 1999)
• DEA of Philosophy of Art : « La panne », « L’essence techno-logique des techniques« , « Habiter l’inhabitable » (Paris I-La Sorbonne, 1996)
• Master of Philosophy of Art : « L’enthousiasme conjuratoire, un affect dans les discours de la réalité virtuelle » (Paris I – Saint Charles, 1995)

He is the founder of Incident.net, a netart platform, in 1994.

He has received awards and grants including Dicream (2014), CAC (2013), CALQ (2012), CRSH (2011), Cap Digital (2010), Arcadi (2010), CNAP (2008). In 2013, he launched TELOFOSSILS at Museum of contemporary art (Taipei). A second version was showed in Beijing (2015). In 2014, his solo exhibition CAPTURE at CDA(Enghein-les-bains), in 2016 in Barcelona, is about a surproductive netrock band. In 2015, EXTINCT MEMORIES was showed at IMAL (Brussels).

He has participated in group exhibitions such as Erreur d’impression, Jeu de Paume (Paris), The Beginning of The End (Timisoara), Mois de la Photo (Montréal), Extimitat (Palma), Der Untergang – Doomsday (Berlin), Connect the doct and see the unseen (Roma), Interlife Crisis (Seatte), The Radius (Chicago), Il Pardosso Della Rupetizone (Roma), Augmented Senses (Shanghai), Biennale d’art contemporain (Montréal), etc.

A number of residencies such as Colab (2016), Hangar (2016), IMAL (2015), Unicorn (2015), Villa Kujoyama(2014), UQAM (2007), Abbaye de Fontevraud (2006), Le Fresnoy (2004), Villa Médicis hors les murs (2003), C3 (1999).

He works on the relationship between existence and technology. He explores the underlying structures of everyday technology to create variable and endless fictions.

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