Grégory Chatonsky is a French-Canadian artist who explores the troubled zone between human beings and technologies. He deals with memory, extinction and resurrection, and constructs fictions without narration.
He founded Incident.net, a Netart platform, in 1994. In the 2000s, he explored digital materiality as ruins and flux. From 2009, he experimented with AI, organizing a seminar at ENS between 2017 and 2019 on the impact of artificial imagination on art.
He has exhibited at the Palais de Tokyo, Centre Pompidou, Jeu de Paume, MOCA Taipei, Museum of Moving Image, Hubei Wuhan Museum, Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, Tanneries, Biennale de l’image possible, CIAP Vassivière, POUSH, Un été au Havre, Collection Lambert, AlUla, MACVAL, Moody Center. His works can be found in private and public collections, including those of the CNAP, FRAC IdF, FAC, BNF, Hubei Museum and Granet Museum.
He has taught at Le Fresnoy, UQAM, Artec and Musashino Art University. He was part of the expert committee for the AI Act and the AI Summit, and wrote a report on the impact of generative AI on cultural industries for the Ministry of Culture in 2017.
