Born 1984, studied in Kyoto; Tomonaga is an artist and a self-taught programmer. As a programmer, he engages in another world, which has no units, no boundaries, no weight: the purely self-contained world of the logic. One of his themes as an artist is to bring that perspective to the real space. Overlapping the materiality and the immateriality, Tomonaga seeks the new reality for the information society.

Between 2005 and 2007, he collaborated with Takeshi Kurosawa, an electronic musician, and held audiovisual performances in Sonar Sound Tokyo and several venues in Kyoto and Osaka. Tomonaga considers the visual and audio as metaphors for ‘thing’ and ‘non-thing’. The audio visualization, connecting those two elements, has been his key interest.

In 2006 and 2007, he was involved in two architectural projects each by Junya Ishigami and Kengo Kuma. He played an important roll in the design process by providing his original softwares. Ishigami’s project ‘KAIT Workshop’ won The Prize of AIJ in 2009. The experience to computerize the massive real objects influenced his later activity.

In 2008, he took a year scholarship in Fabrica, Benetton’s art and design residency in Italy. He started and developed an audiovisual installation project ‘Listening with Your Eyes’.

In 2009, he started a print series ‘re.schematic’, the technical drawings of the computer source code and the data structure. The project is to explore ‘what is programming’ and ‘what the form of programming could be’. They are firstly exhibited in Eye of Gyre gallery in Tokyo.