Patrick Tresset

Patrick Tresset is a London based artist who creates theatrical installations with robotic agents as actors. Tresset’s installations use computational systems that aim to introduce artistic and expressive aspects to robots’ behaviour. These systems are influenced by research into human behaviour, more specifically how human artists depict other humans, how humans perceive artworks and how humans relate to robots. Tresset also uses robots and autonomous computational systems to produce series of drawings and paintings of classical subjects such as portraits, nudes and still lifes.

Tresset’s award­winning work has been internationally exhibited in association with major museums such as The Pompidou Center, Tate Modern, Museum of Israel, Victoria & Albert Museum (London), MMCA (Seoul) and at events such as Ars Electronica, Bozar, Update_5, London Art Fair, Kinetica and Istanbul biennial. Forthcoming exhibitions include a solo show at the Laznia Center (Gdansk), WRO 2015 (Wroclaw) and La Maison D’ailleurs (Yverdon­les­Bains).

Originally a painter, Tresset is part of a generation of contemporary artists coming out of Goldsmiths' computing department. In 2004 Tresset joined Goldsmiths for an MSc degree in Arts Computing where from 2009 until 2012 he co­directed the AIkon­II project, and is a currently a visiting research fellow and doctoral candidate. He also developed and taught a creative robotics module at Goldsmiths. In 2013 Patrick was a Senior Fellow at the Zukunftskolleg, University of Konstanz working with Prof. Deussen, where he is now part of the team working on the e­David project. Tresset has published research papers in the fields of computational aesthetics, social robotics, drawing research and AI.