Johanna Flato
Johanna Flato is an interdisciplinary artist who explores the ways in which “site” is mediated and manipulated through language and technology. She is motivated to better understand how language — itself a form of technology — encodes a sense of self and a sense of belonging. Through research-based, iterative projects, she experiments with a tension of agency and automation. Her materials include text, voice, maps, algorithms, variable outcomes experimental micro-organizations, looping sculptural videos, site-specific Augmented Reality performances, essays, and installations. She coined the neologism “syn-site” as an evolving tool and guiding concept in her practice.