Gregory Chatonsky is a French-Canadian artist. He has been creating objects located between materiality and the digital since 1996. He has exhibited at the Palais de Tokyo, the Centre Pompidou, the Jeu de Paume, MOCA Taipei, the Museum of Moving Image and the Hubei Wuhan Museum.
Born in 1971 in Paris, Grégory Chatonsky lives and works in Paris and Montreal. Since the mid-1990s, he has been working on the web and, in particular, on its affectivity, leading him to question the identity and new narratives that emerge from the internet. From 2001, he began a series on dislocation, the aesthetics of ruins and extinction as an artificial and natural phenomenon. Over the years, he has turned towards the ability of machines to almost autonomously produce results that resemble human production. These issues have become convergent thanks to artificial imagination using data accumulated on the web as a learning material in order to produce a resemblance. Within the context of an extinction of the human species, the internet therefore appears as an attempt to create a monument in its anticipation that will continue after our disappearance.
