Johanna Flato (b. San Antonio, TX, USA) is a visual artist and AR tool-builder based in Brooklyn, New York. She investigates the ways in which our sense of ‘site’ — and in turn, locational belonging — is mediated and manipulated through language and technology.

Often research-based, mostly site-specific, and increasingly improvisational, Johanna's work spans conceptual sculpture, generative and interactive installations, performance-lecture, and socially-engaged practice. Flato responds improvisationally to her surroundings — out loud, visually, and alongside others — with curiosity about the articulations of her thoughts, body, and device-appendages through shared space. She is currently building a novel augmented reality app called Tangle — a mobile tool for spatial annotation and poetic encounters. With this tool, she injects critical friction in this accelerationalist AI/XR moment and provides a playful, collaborative, civic dimension to our tech-mediated environments.

Flato holds degrees from the Royal College of Art (M.A. Contemporary Art Practice) and Yale University (B.A), and her artwork, tools, and performance have been exhibited in group and solo shows internationally, including at Annka Kultys Gallery, Tate Exchange, and the Center for Performance Research. Tangle is currently incubated by the New Museum's NEW INC in partnership with Onassis ONX.