Gregory Chatonsky

Using a range of analog and digital media, often in tandem, pioneering digital artist Gregory Chatonsky examines our relationship with technology. Many of his works exists as websites, which explore generative systems, phenomenology, fiction, and concepts of flow and destruction. Capture, for instance, is home to a “generative netrock” band that produces mashups of words, music, images, and videos ad infinitum. The idea of the mashup occurs throughout Chatonsky’s practice, and he’s also applied the technique to content from social media sites like Youtube, Twitter, and Facebook. Throughout his websites, videos, video games, and other works, a darkness pervades, both literal and figurative. “It is not black that interests me, but rather the night,” Chatonsky says. “Those nights when we perceive everything around you silence people sleeping. The network operates a little this way. We are many, we stand silently next to each other.”