Jean-Marc Chomaz - Perform Lab

Jean-Marc Chomaz

Jean-Marc CHOMAZ is an artist physicist, director of research at the CNRS, professor at École Polytechnique. He co-founded the Hydrodynamics laboratory of CNRS-École polytechnique, the laboratory of excellence Systems and Engineering and La Diagonale of Paris Saclay University in 2012 and the Chaire arts & sciences in 2017. Alumnus of the École Normale Supérieure, he advises or has advised 31 PhD including 3 in art and co-authored more than 250 publications. He received the CNRS Silver Medal, 2007 and the Ampere Grand Prize of the Academy of Sciences, 2012, was appointed “Fellow” of the American Physical Society, 2001 and of the Euromech, 2018. His research concerns the dynamics of soap films, theory of instability, vortex breakdown, geophysical and stratified fluids, biomechanics and arts & sciences. As an artist, he created the installations Un chemin qui chemine, Time traces, Terra Bulla, the tryptic Une solution au problème de raréfaction du Temps Futur, Bogota, 2019, Passé, Anamorphose, Bourges contemporain 2021, Thousand shades of Green, OU\/ERT, 2019, Incipit Temporis, Silmarils, Veridis So, Reshift-becoming machine, Instandsetzung#3, 2022, Irreversible Abstraction, Bogota, 2023, Five black rivers at the Cité de la musique, Paris 2024 and the poem series N56u3N4A published in the review Plastir. In collaboration with the Duo HeHe, Anaïs Tondeur, Ana Rewakowicz and Camille Duprat, Aniara Rodado Evelina Domnitch & Dmitry Gelfand, Olga Flór, Anouk Daguin, Tania le Goff, Laurent Karst and François-Eudes Chanfrault of the collective Labofactory he has created more than 30 collective installations presented worldwide.

Biography updated on July 8, 2025