Jonas Johansson is an anywhere-based artist, educator, and designer from Glommen, Halland. His work explores light and technology through play, community, and (un)human intervention.
Since 2024 Jonas plans courses for Svenska Tecknare, taught Visual Communication at Beckmans (2017–2025), served as Industry Leader at Hyper Island (2014–2022), and have lectured at Aalto University, Konstfack, School of Machines, Berghs, Nyckelviken, Futuregames, to name a few.
Jonas's professional experience includes KRAM/WEISSHAAR (SE/DE), FIELD (UK) and Moment Factory (CA). He interned at W+K Tokyo (JP) and UltraSuperNew (JP).
Under the moniker Scenic Route, he has performed for artists such as La Fleur, Kornel Kovacs, Gesafellstein, Yuksek and all time idol, The Field.
Today, Jonas runs the artist residency Visualia, produces the fulldome film festival Dome Dreaming, co-creates events with PLX, collaborates with the lighting collective Svartljus, and co-founded Nordic Audiovisual Artists. He shares a studio in Stockholm with SMASH and Rose Hallgren.
Emerging Sensation
An interactive installation combining smart textiles and augmented reality, 25 metres below ground in a retired nuclear reactor hall.
Emerging Sensation took over Reaktorhallen R1, the old reactor hall underneath KTH in Stockholm, for several weeks in January 2019. Malin Bobeck Tadaa initiated the project and brought me in alongside Really Interactive game studio. Malin had perfected a technique using optic fibre and custom 3D-printed parts to weave LED strips directly into her textile sculptures. Conductive thread woven into the fabric gave the sculptures capacitive touch, so when visitors touched them, the light animations shifted and a signal was sent to the HoloLens AR layer.
I built the light animations on Arduino and a node-based OSC system that bridged the physical sculptures and the HoloLens. Björn Albihn and Jonatan Crafoord at Really Interactive built the mixed reality side. I spent days and nights in that reactor hall, listening to System of a Down and going slightly insane.
