Jonas Johansson (b. 1987) is a designer, artist and educator from Glommen, Halland. He studied graphic design in Norrköping, Reims, and Stockholm, and has worked at design studios in Tokyo, Montreal, London and Munich. He taught at Beckmans (2017–2025) and Hyper Island (2014–2022).
Jonas runs the artist residency Visualia and Nordic Audiovisual Artists, plans courses at Svenska Tecknare, creates events with PLX and Lumen Project, collaborates with the lighting collective Svartljus, and co-founded Dome Dreaming, the Nordics' first fulldome film festival.
He shares his studio with SMASH and Rose Hallgren.
Lyra
A playable light instrument. Strings hung from floor to ceiling in a darkened room, each one triggering light and sound when plucked.
Lyra was my first foray into interactive light art, made while I was working at Moment Factory in Montreal and shown at C2 Montreal. A set of fishing wire strings was strung tightly from floor to ceiling, each fitted with an accelerometer. When a visitor plucked a string, the sensor fed its peak value into an algorithm simulating a vibrating chord. Light and sound grew from the tip of the string and travelled along the walls and ceiling, turning the room into a kind of circuitry. The more people played, the richer it got. Built on Arduino.