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.
Resonance
Interactive projection mapping on Uppsala Town Hall, where the public could paint the facade in colour.
Resonance was an interactive projection mapping piece on the facade of Uppsala Town Hall, created with Smash Studio for Allt Ljus på Uppsala. Four weatherproofed touch pads with embedded lighting were placed in the main square, built to handle snow, rain, and countless jumps. I built them with Arduino, feeding into the Unreal Engine project over USB. Each pad triggered a colour ripple across the facade, animating an ocean scene on the building's surface. When all four pads were activated at once, a final sequence of light and music played out. I laser cut a scale model of the building for testing the projection, and the facade was drone-scanned to build a digital replica. Built together with Rose Hallgren.
