[et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ custom_padding_last_edited=”on|desktop” disabled_on=”off|off|off” admin_label=”talks desktop” module_id=”about_talks” _builder_version=”4.27.0″ background_color=”#ffffff” custom_padding=”0px|0px|2px|0px||” custom_padding_tablet=”50px|0|50px|0″ custom_padding_phone=”2px|0|50px|0||” custom_css_main_element=”{height:100vh;}” da_disable_devices=”off|off|off” transparent_background=”off” padding_mobile=”off” global_colors_info=”{}” da_is_popup=”off” da_exit_intent=”off” da_has_close=”on” da_alt_close=”off” da_dark_close=”off” da_not_modal=”on” da_is_singular=”off” da_with_loader=”off” da_has_shadow=”on”][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.27.0″ _module_preset=”default” width=”90%” width_tablet=”96%” width_phone=”96%” width_last_edited=”on|tablet” custom_padding=”0px||3px|||” saved_tabs=”all” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.16″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_divider color=”#bfc9c9″ divider_weight=”2px” _builder_version=”4.27.0″ _module_preset=”default” custom_margin=”||8px|||” custom_padding=”30px||0px|||” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_divider][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.27.0″ _module_preset=”default” custom_margin=”33px||-4px||false|false” custom_padding=”||41px|||” text_font_size_tablet=”16px” text_font_size_phone=”16px” text_font_size_last_edited=”on|phone” text_line_height_tablet=”” text_line_height_phone=”1.7em” text_line_height_last_edited=”on|phone” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n
Patrick Tresset is a French artist based in Brussels. Best known for his performative installations, he explores human presence, the necessity to pass time, the mundane, <\/span>and memory using computational systems, robotics, and traditional media. [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_divider color=”#bfc9c9″ divider_weight=”2px” _builder_version=”4.27.0″ _module_preset=”default” custom_margin=”||1px|||” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_divider][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.27.0″ _module_preset=”default” custom_padding=”3px||0px|||” text_font_size_tablet=”16px” text_font_size_phone=”16px” text_font_size_last_edited=”on|phone” text_line_height_tablet=”” text_line_height_phone=”1.7em” text_line_height_last_edited=”on|phone” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n Drawing is a universal human activity, constant since prehistory. I use mark-making to look at presence, the necessity to pass time, mundane moments, and social traits. Computational technology is my medium; the subject is us.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_divider color=”#bfc9c9″ divider_weight=”2px” _builder_version=”4.27.0″ _module_preset=”default” custom_margin=”||-4px|||” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_divider][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.27.0″ _module_preset=”default” min_height=”986px” text_font_size_tablet=”16px” text_font_size_phone=”16px” text_font_size_last_edited=”on|phone” text_line_height_tablet=”” text_line_height_phone=”1.7em” text_line_height_last_edited=”on|phone” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n 2026<\/strong> 2024<\/strong> 2023<\/strong> 2022<\/strong> 2020<\/strong> 2019<\/strong> 2018<\/strong> 2017<\/strong> 2016<\/strong> 2015<\/strong> 2013<\/strong> 2012<\/strong> 2011<\/strong> [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_divider color=”#bfc9c9″ divider_weight=”2px” _builder_version=”4.27.0″ _module_preset=”default” custom_margin=”||-6px|||” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_divider][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.27.0″ _module_preset=”default” text_font_size_tablet=”16px” text_font_size_phone=”16px” text_font_size_last_edited=”on|phone” text_line_height_tablet=”” text_line_height_phone=”1.7em” text_line_height_last_edited=”on|phone” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n – Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A), London, UK Work is also held in private collections internationally<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_divider color=”#bfc9c9″ divider_weight=”2px” _builder_version=”4.27.0″ _module_preset=”default” min_height=”6.4px” custom_margin=”||0px|||” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_divider][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.27.0″ _module_preset=”default” text_font_size_tablet=”16px” text_font_size_phone=”16px” text_font_size_last_edited=”on|phone” text_line_height_tablet=”” text_line_height_phone=”1.7em” text_line_height_last_edited=”on|phone” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n – 2019 \u2013 Honorary Mention, Prix Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_divider color=”#bfc9c9″ divider_weight=”2px” _builder_version=”4.27.0″ _module_preset=”default” custom_margin=”||-2px|||” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_divider][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.27.0″ _module_preset=”default” text_font_size_tablet=”16px” text_font_size_phone=”16px” text_font_size_last_edited=”on|phone” text_line_height_tablet=”” text_line_height_phone=”1.7em” text_line_height_last_edited=”on|phone” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n – Embodied Agents in Contemporary Visual Art (EACVA), Research Project Grant [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_divider color=”#bfc9c9″ divider_weight=”2px” _builder_version=”4.27.0″ _module_preset=”default” custom_margin=”||1px|||” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_divider][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.27.0″ _module_preset=”default” custom_margin=”||36px|||” text_font_size_tablet=”16px” text_font_size_phone=”16px” text_font_size_last_edited=”on|phone” text_line_height_tablet=”” text_line_height_phone=”1.7em” text_line_height_last_edited=”on|phone” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_divider color=”#bfc9c9″ divider_weight=”2px” _builder_version=”4.27.0″ _module_preset=”default” custom_margin=”||-2px|||” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_divider][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.27.0″ _module_preset=”default” custom_padding=”||2px|||” text_font_size_tablet=”16px” text_font_size_phone=”16px” text_font_size_last_edited=”on|phone” text_line_height_tablet=”” text_line_height_phone=”1.7em” text_line_height_last_edited=”on|phone” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n 2025<\/strong> 2024<\/strong> 2023<\/strong> 2022<\/strong> 2021<\/strong> 2020<\/strong> 2019<\/strong> 2018<\/strong> 2017<\/strong> 2016<\/strong> 2015<\/strong> 2014<\/strong> 2013<\/strong> 2012<\/strong> 2011<\/strong> 2010<\/strong> [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_divider _builder_version=”4.27.0″ _module_preset=”default” custom_margin=”||-3px|||” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_divider][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.27.0″ _module_preset=”default” custom_margin=”||43px|||” hover_enabled=”0″ text_font_size_tablet=”16px” text_font_size_phone=”16px” text_font_size_last_edited=”on|phone” text_line_height_tablet=”” text_line_height_phone=”1.7em” text_line_height_last_edited=”on|phone” global_colors_info=”{}” sticky_enabled=”0″]<\/p>\n 2025 \u2013 Opening Keynote, E-AI Summit, Montreal, Canada View a list here ><\/a><\/strong>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_divider _builder_version=”4.27.0″ _module_preset=”default” custom_margin=”||0px|||” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_divider][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.27.0″ _module_preset=”default” text_font_size_tablet=”16px” text_font_size_phone=”16px” text_font_size_last_edited=”on|phone” text_line_height_tablet=”” text_line_height_phone=”1.7em” text_line_height_last_edited=”on|phone” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n Gallery Ysebaert<\/a><\/strong>– Sint-Martens-Latem, Belgium<\/p>\n
Tresset studied at Goldsmiths, University of London, where he earned a Master\u2019s and an MPhil in Arts and Technology.
Since 2011, he has presented nineteen solo exhibitions, and his work has been shown internationally in major institutions, including the Centre Pompidou and Grand Palais in Paris, Fondazione Prada in Milan, the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) in London, MMCA in Seoul, BOZAR in Brussels, Today Art Museum in Beijing, Ming Contemporary Art Museum (McaM) in Shanghai, and the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo.
His work is held in private and public collections worldwide and has received numerous international distinctions, including from the Prix Ars Electronica, the Lumen Prize, the Japan Media Arts Festival, and the NTAA (Fondation Liedts-Meesen). In 2017, he was named a World Economic Forum Cultural Leader.
His work has been featured in major press and media outlets, including The New York Times, Le Monde, BBC, Deutsche Welle, Arte, Frieze, ArtReview, artpress, Beaux Arts Magazine, Wired, Vice, and Neural. In 2016, a monograph on his practice, Human Traits and the Art of Creative Machines, edited by Ryszard W. Kluszczy\u0144ski, was published and reviewed in Leonardo and Neural.<\/p>\n
I author computational and robotic systems used as actors in performative installations and as autonomous tools to produce digital animations, paintings and drawings. The paintings and drawings depict human presence, while the animations explore the depiction of the mundane, like looking out a train window, watching passersby, the sea or flowers. Recently, I have been using autonomous agents as outside observers to tell stories about humans.
In installations, I stage robots as actors performing repetitive routines that leave traces like memories, prompting viewers to project their own narratives onto the machines.<\/p>\nSOLO SHOWS<\/strong><\/h1>\n
La Classe, Le Grenier \u00e0 Sel, Festival d’Avignon, Avignon, France
Anima Automata, Artverse Gallery, Paris, France<\/p>\n
Animal Studies, donumenta, Regensburg, Germany
Le Temps de Lire, Galerie Rue Antoine, Paris, France<\/p>\n
We Are Here and Now, Pulpo Gallery, Murnau am Staffelsee, Germany
Human Studies, Ara Art Center, Seoul, South Korea<\/p>\n
Human Study I & II, Burg Ranfels, Ranfels, Germany<\/p>\n
Human Study #1: Art Unchained, ArtisTree, Hong Kong<\/p>\n
La petite Vanit\u00e9 au Robot et \u00e0 la Souris, Galerie Rue Antoine, Paris, France
Umeni Robota, Galerie T-REA, Mons, Belgium<\/p>\n
Human Study #1: 5-RNP, Bunkier Sztuki Contemporary Art Gallery, Krak\u00f3w,
Poland
\u00c9tude Humaine #1, Galerie Rue Antoine, Paris, France<\/p>\n
Whilst We Were Here…, Watermans Arts Centre, London, UK
Machine Studies, MERGE Festival, London, UK<\/p>\n
Human Traits #2, Dixit Algorizmi Gallery, Berlin, Germany<\/p>\n
Human Traits, \u0141a\u017ania Centre for Contemporary Art, Gda\u0144sk, Poland<\/p>\n
Human Studies, Bildungsturm, Konstanz, Germany<\/p>\n
6-RNP, MERGE Bankside (supported by Tate Modern), London, UK<\/p>\n
New Works, Tenderpixel Gallery, London, UK<\/p>\nPublic & Institutional Collections<\/strong><\/h1>\n
– Ming Contemporary Art Museum (McaM), Shanghai, China
– Fondation Guerlain, Paris, France
– New Art Foundation, Barcelona, Spain
– Aksenov Family Foundation, Vienna, Austria
– K\u00fcnstlerverbund im Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany
– Maison d’Ailleurs, Yverdon-les-Bains, Switzerland
– Gesamtkunstwerk Collection, Germany<\/p>\nAwards & Distinctions<\/strong><\/h1>\n
– 2016 \u2013 Jury Selection, Japan Media Arts Festival, Tokyo, Japan
– 2014 \u2013 Bronze Award, The Lumen Prize, London, UK
– 2014 \u2013\u00a0 New Technological Art Award (NTAA), Fondation Liedts-Meesen, Ghent, Belgium<\/p>\nGrants & Research Funding<\/strong><\/h1>\n
– The Leverhulme Trust, Research Grant, UK
– Commission des Arts Num\u00e9riques, F\u00e9d\u00e9ration Wallonie-Bruxelles, Bourse de
recherche, Belgium
– Commission des Arts Num\u00e9riques, F\u00e9d\u00e9ration Wallonie-Bruxelles, Aide \u00e0 la
conception, Belgium
– NewArtFoundation, ISEA Production Grant, Barcelona, Spain<\/p>\nSelected Group Shows<\/strong><\/h1>\n
Automata, Digital Art Mile, Basel, Switzerland
Beyond Surface, Bergson Kunstkraftwerk, Munich, Germany
Creative Machine, Wuhan, China
AI or Nay? Artificial vs. Intelligent, The Media Majlis Museum, Doha, Qatar<\/p>\n
ImPOSSIBLE, Museum Frieder Burda, Baden-Baden, Germany
I\u2019m Sorry Dave, I\u2019m Afraid I Can\u2019t Do That, Busan Museum of Contemporary Art, Busan, South Korea
Ennova Biennale, Ennova Art Museum, Langfang, China
Creative Machines, Taikang Art Museum, Beijing, China<\/p>\n
The Future Life, Future You, Jut Art Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
L\u2019Univers sans l\u2019homme, Mus\u00e9e de Valence, Valence, France<\/p>\n
Brain(s), CCCB \u2013 Centre de Cultura Contempor\u00e0nia de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
100 Years of Robots, Centro Cultural Oi Futuro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (curated by Zaven Par\u00e9)<\/p>\n
Still\/Life, Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY, USA
VisionarIAs, Etopia Centro de Arte y Tecnolog\u00eda, Zaragoza, Spain<\/p>\n
G\u00f6tterd\u00e4mmerung, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany
Thin as Thorns, in These Thoughts in Us, Honor Fraser Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA<\/p>\n
The Future and the Arts, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Assembled Human, Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany
Human Study #1, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, Netherlands
Kirchner Notebooks, Kirchner Museum, Davos, Switzerland
Deus Ex Machina, LABoral Centro de Arte y Creaci\u00f3n Industrial, Gij\u00f3n, Spain
Mind the Deep, Ming Contemporary Art Museum (McaM), Shanghai, China
CyberArts, OK Center for Contemporary Art, Linz, Austria
KIKK Festival, Namur, Belgium<\/p>\n
Artistes & Robots, Grand Palais, Paris, France
I am here to learn, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, Germany
Goshka Macuga, Neues Museum, Nuremberg, Germany
Beyond 2001: A Space Odyssey, Espacio Fundaci\u00f3n Telef\u00f3nica, Madrid, Spain
Trace, New Media Gallery, Vancouver, Canada<\/p>\n
Animal, Man, Machine, Verbeke Foundation, Kemzeke, Belgium
Artists & Robots, RMN, Astana, Kazakhstan<\/p>\n
Goshka Macuga: Before the Beginning and After the End, Fondazione Prada, Milan, Italy
BIAN \u2013 International Digital Art Biennale, Montreal, Canada
Human Factor, Ars Electronica Export, DRIVE, Berlin, Germany<\/p>\n
Robot Essay, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (MMCA), Seoul, South Korea
L\u2019Anatomie de l\u2019automate, La Panac\u00e9e \u2013 MoCo, Montpellier, France
Portraits Robots, Maison d\u2019Ailleurs, Yverdon-les-Bains, Switzerland
WRO Media Art Biennale, Wroc\u0142aw, Poland<\/p>\n
Ars Electronica Festival, Linz, Austria<\/p>\n
INLOVE, Studio 13\/16, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France<\/p>\n
Digital Design Weekend, Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A), London, UK<\/p>\n
Uncontainable, ISEA2011, Istanbul, Turkey<\/p>\n
Unleashed Devices, Watermans Arts Centre, London, UK<\/p>\nSelected Keynotes & Talks<\/strong><\/h1>\n
\n2024 \u2013 In Conversation with Eleonora Brizi, Digital Art Mile, Basel, Switzerland
\n2017 \u2013 Cultural Leader & Panelist, World Economic Forum, Davos, Switzerland<\/p>\nRepresentation<\/strong><\/h1>\n