Jonathan Chomko (Canadian, b. 1988) is an artist working with and against technology, whose practice takes the form of interactive public installation, participatory performance and visual explorations. His work examines the seam between the physical and digital worlds, exploring how digital forces act on physical space and how physical phenomena are modulated as they enter the digital, through themes of memory, gesture, value, relationship and perception.
Chomko studied Interaction Design at Malmö University in Sweden, graduating in 2012. In 2013 he held a residency at Fabrica in Treviso, Italy, where he created News Machine, an installation that sent a participant's tweet through a cycle of machine-to-machine translations before printing the result. In 2014 he won the Playable City Award with Matthew Rosier for Shadowing, a set of modified streetlamps that capture and replay the shadows of passers-by. It was installed for months at a time in cities including Bristol, London, Tokyo and Paris. The pair formalised their collaboration as the studio Chomko & Rosier, active from 2015 to 2018 and commissioned by institutions including the UK Space Agency. In 2017 Chomko returned to Montreal to focus on an independent practice centred on agency, collectivity and materiality.
