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.
Early life and education
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
The (UQAM; ), is a French language, French-language public university, public research university based in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It is the largest constituent element of the system.
UQAM was founded on April 9, 1969, by the government o ...
for his dissertation: ''Aesthetics of flows (after digital)''.
Work
Grégory Chatonsky is one of the early practitioners of
Internet art
upright=1.3, "Simple Net Art Diagram", a 1997 work by Michael Sarff and Tim Whidden
Internet art (also known as net art or web art) is a form of new media art distributed via the Internet. This form of art circumvents the traditional dominance o ...
having founded in 1994
incident.net, an
Internet art
upright=1.3, "Simple Net Art Diagram", a 1997 work by Michael Sarff and Tim Whidden
Internet art (also known as net art or web art) is a form of new media art distributed via the Internet. This form of art circumvents the traditional dominance o ...
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
The Centre Pompidou (), more fully the (), also known as the Pompidou Centre in English and colloquially as Beaubourg, is a building complex in Paris, France. It was designed in the style of high-tech architecture by the architectural team of ...
''. 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.
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.
In 2003, he became interested in the themes of ruins and the materiality of digital flows. In 2009, he ventured into the world of
artificial intelligence
Artificial intelligence (AI) is the capability of computer, computational systems to perform tasks typically associated with human intelligence, such as learning, reasoning, problem-solving, perception, and decision-making. It is a field of re ...
, which he renames
artificial imagination
Artificial imagination is a narrow subcomponent of artificial general intelligence which generates, simulates, and facilitates real or possible fiction models to create predictions, inventions, or conscious experiences.
The term artificia ...
, which became over the years an object of research and creation. He wrote the first French language novel co-written with a modified version of
GPT-2
Generative Pre-trained Transformer 2 (GPT-2) is a large language model by OpenAI and the second in their foundational series of Generative pre-trained transformer, GPT models. GPT-2 was pre-trained on a dataset of 8 million web pages. It was par ...
.
[Cavanna, Aurelie (2022) "Gregory Chatonsky : Capturing imaginations", in Art Press. Paris] Chatonsky divides his time between France and Canada. He has taught at Le Fresnoy-Studio national des arts contemporains, France, at
Université du Québec à Montréal
The (UQAM; ), is a French language, French-language public university, public research university based in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It is the largest constituent element of the system.
UQAM was founded on April 9, 1969, by the government o ...
’s School of visual and media artn he is artist-researcher at
École Normale Supérieure
École or Ecole may refer to:
* an elementary school in the French educational stages normally followed by Secondary education in France, secondary education establishments (collège and lycée)
* École (river), a tributary of the Seine flowing i ...
in Paris and teacher of
artificial imagination
Artificial imagination is a narrow subcomponent of artificial general intelligence which generates, simulates, and facilitates real or possible fiction models to create predictions, inventions, or conscious experiences.
The term artificia ...
i
EUR Artec
Bibliography
*Boutet de Monvel, Violaine (2008) "La destruction comme point de départ à une sémiotique libérée". ''Paris Art''.
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*Doyon, Frédérique (11 October 2007) "Le septième art de demain" ''
Le Devoir
(, ) is a French-language newspaper published in Montreal and distributed in Quebec and throughout Canada. It was founded by journalist and politician Henri Bourassa in 1910.
is one of few independent large-circulation newspapers in Quebec ...
'', Montréal.
*Fan, Ruan (28 April 2015) "French artist explores future archeology". ''
China Daily
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Overview
''China Daily'' has the widest print circulation of any ...
''. Beijing
*Lechner, Marie (15 April 2014) "Entretien croisé entre l’artiste Grégory Chatonsky, concepteur de Capture, et le musicologue Peter Szendy". ''Libération''. Paris
*Miguirditchian, Julie (2010) "Artist in the flow". ''Digitalarti Mag''
*Mufson, Beckett (15 May 2015) "Here Are Imaginary Fossils from a Post-Human Earth". ''The Creators Project''
*Murphy, Jay (2009) "A fiction without narration", ''
thing.net''
*Palmiéri, Christine (2013) "Fossilisation du futur", ''Archée''
*Popper, Frank (2006) ''From Technological to Virtual Art''. MIT Press. Boston
*Thome de Souza, Kevin (25 March 2014) "Grégory Chatonsky’s Capture: generative art pushed to its limits". ''Amusement''. Paris
*Denson, Shane (2020) "Discorrelated Images", Duke University Press
*Cavanna, Aurelie (october 2021) "Grégory Chatonsky, a realism without reality", ''Art Press''. Paris
*Larsonneur, Claire (2021) "Challenging the Selfie: Perfect Skin by Chatonsky", ''Interfaces : Jeux de Formats''
*Somaini, Antonio (2022) "On the altered states of machine vision. Trevor Paglen, Hito Steyerl, Grégory Chatonsky", ''N-ICON. Studies in Environmental Images''
*Cavanna, Aurelie (2022) "Gregory Chatonsky : Capturing imaginations", ''Art Press''. Paris
See also
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Generative art
Generative art is post-conceptual art that has been created (in whole or in part) with the use of an autonomous system. An ''autonomous system'' in this context is generally one that is non-human and can independently determine features of an ...
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Artificial intelligence art
Artificial intelligence visual art means visual artwork generated (or enhanced) through the use of artificial intelligence (AI) programs.
Artists began to create AI art in the mid to late 20th century, when the discipline was founded. Throug ...
References
External links
Official website of Grégory ChatonskyIncident.netPostdigital research seminar about artificial imagination at ENS Paris
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French artists
Canadian digital artists
Net.artists
Artists from Montreal
1971 births
Living people