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From the Creative Machine exhibition at @tamtaikangartmuseum

Thank you Li Pengshu for the photo

Le Lecteur, L'Atlas

GIF, 1080 x 1440, 33 frames, 2024

Listed on @fakewhale_xyz ART MARKET, @objktcom

This animation was produced to coincide with Le Temps de Lire solo show at the galerie Rue Antoine (@galerierueantoine )

4.05.2024 - 3.05.2024

#performance
#contemporaryart
#drawing
#artinstallation
#generativeart
#videoart

The @entertain_ai conference in Montreal was exciting, and various views were expressed. It was good to witness the vibrancy of Quebec's scene.

I enjoyed sharing insights from 25 years of creating art with computation, robotics and AI.
It was the first time I gave the opening keynote!

A couple of my messages:

A technological tool, for example, a hammer:
- Can be used to build something useful
- If you don't know how to use it, you'll hurt your fingers
- You can hurt your neighbour with it
- You can sculpt a masterpiece.
The same goes with any technology, including AI

AI doesn't change anything to the fundamental questions you must answer as an artist.

What? why? how?
(not necessarily in this order)

Photo: @evablue

My portrait by @patricktresset embodied agent 🤩

Make yours 👉 https://artverse.youcanbook.me/

Your portrait made by @patricktresset robots on an art gallery wall?

Book your session 👉 https://artverse.youcanbook.me/ to experience this ritual of ink and motion.

This first chapter, titled An Enquiry into Human Traits, transforms ArtVerse Gallery into a laboratory for Tresset’s “embodied agents.” Highlighting the intersection of human instinct and algorithmic agency, the exhibition features the performative installation Human Study #1.

We invite you to participate by becoming subjects of robotic portraits during a 20-minute session.

Currently on View: Automata Anima (Soul of the Machine) | Chapter I: Patrick Tresset @patricktresset Solo Show
Curated by Valentina Buzzi @cenestpasvale

⛓️ Until the 27th of May
ArtVerse Gallery, 5 bis rue Beauce 75003

Coming soon:
Automata Anima (Soul of the Machine)Chapter II:
duo show of Patrick Tresset and Celine Shen @celine.shen_official

June 2 – 20, 2026

#parisgallery #whattodoinparis #sortiraparis

I very much enjoyed having my portrait done by Robots 🤖 at @artverseparis
What a brilliant art by @patricktresset
Special thanks to @sebastienborgetfor the invitation 🙏

👋 @artverseparis digital art gallery team at @patricktresset solo show opening 🤩

@patricktresset in conversation with @cenestpasvale ahead of "Automata Anima" Chapter 1 exhibition at @artverseparis

Read the full interview 👉 https://www.fvtvrist.com/patrick-tresset by @fvtvr3st
Opening Thursday May 21st 👉 https://luma.com/dlqw81h4?tk=ycgpox
Book your Portrait 👉 https://artverse.youcanbook.me/

ArtVerse Gallery is proud to present Automata Anima (Soul of the Machine), a two-chapter exhibition navigating the symbiotic territories where human instinct meets algorithmic agency. By bringing together the robotic investigations of Patrick Tresset and the phygital cosmologies of Celine Shen, the exhibition explores the “anima”—the vital breath—as a force that flows through carbon and code alike.

Human Study #1,is an installation where the human becomes an actor. In a scene reminiscent of a life drawing class, the human takes the sitter’s role to be sketched by a number of robots. When the subject arrives by appointment, he is seated in an armchair. An assistant attaches sheets of paper on to the robots’ desks and wakes each one up, twisting its arm or knocking three times

Visitors will be able to participate in the performance Human Study #1, and be drawn by robots during a 20 minute session and contribute to the wall of “portraits” presented to the gallery.

@patricktresset in conversation with @cenestpasvale ahead of "Automata Anima" Chapter 1 exhibition at @artverseparis

Read the full interview 👉 https://www.fvtvrist.com/patrick-tresset by @fvtvr3st
Opening Thursday May 21st 👉 https://luma.com/dlqw81h4?tk=ycgpox
Book your Portrait 👉 https://artverse.youcanbook.me/

ArtVerse Gallery is proud to present Automata Anima (Soul of the Machine), a two-chapter exhibition navigating the symbiotic territories where human instinct meets algorithmic agency. By bringing together the robotic investigations of Patrick Tresset and the phygital cosmologies of Celine Shen, the exhibition explores the “anima”—the vital breath—as a force that flows through carbon and code alike.

Human Study #1,is an installation where the human becomes an actor. In a scene reminiscent of a life drawing class, the human takes the sitter’s role to be sketched by a number of robots. When the subject arrives by appointment, he is seated in an armchair. An assistant attaches sheets of paper on to the robots’ desks and wakes each one up, twisting its arm or knocking three times

Visitors will be able to participate in the performance Human Study #1, and be drawn by robots during a 20 minute session and contribute to the wall of “portraits” presented to the gallery.

@patricktresset in conversation with @cenestpasvale ahead of "Automata Anima" Chapter 1 exhibition at @artverseparis

Read the full interview 👉 https://www.fvtvrist.com/patrick-tresset by @fvtvr3st
Opening Thursday May 21st 👉 https://luma.com/dlqw81h4?tk=ycgpox
Book your Portrait 👉 https://artverse.youcanbook.me/

ArtVerse Gallery is proud to present Automata Anima (Soul of the Machine), a two-chapter exhibition navigating the symbiotic territories where human instinct meets algorithmic agency. By bringing together the robotic investigations of Patrick Tresset and the phygital cosmologies of Celine Shen, the exhibition explores the “anima”—the vital breath—as a force that flows through carbon and code alike.

Human Study #1,is an installation where the human becomes an actor. In a scene reminiscent of a life drawing class, the human takes the sitter’s role to be sketched by a number of robots. When the subject arrives by appointment, he is seated in an armchair. An assistant attaches sheets of paper on to the robots’ desks and wakes each one up, twisting its arm or knocking three times

Visitors will be able to participate in the performance Human Study #1, and be drawn by robots during a 20 minute session and contribute to the wall of “portraits” presented to the gallery.

@patricktresset in conversation with @cenestpasvale ahead of "Automata Anima" Chapter 1 exhibition at @artverseparis

Read the full interview 👉 https://www.fvtvrist.com/patrick-tresset by @fvtvr3st
Opening Thursday May 21st 👉 https://luma.com/dlqw81h4?tk=ycgpox
Book your Portrait 👉 https://artverse.youcanbook.me/

ArtVerse Gallery is proud to present Automata Anima (Soul of the Machine), a two-chapter exhibition navigating the symbiotic territories where human instinct meets algorithmic agency. By bringing together the robotic investigations of Patrick Tresset and the phygital cosmologies of Celine Shen, the exhibition explores the “anima”—the vital breath—as a force that flows through carbon and code alike.

Human Study #1,is an installation where the human becomes an actor. In a scene reminiscent of a life drawing class, the human takes the sitter’s role to be sketched by a number of robots. When the subject arrives by appointment, he is seated in an armchair. An assistant attaches sheets of paper on to the robots’ desks and wakes each one up, twisting its arm or knocking three times

Visitors will be able to participate in the performance Human Study #1, and be drawn by robots during a 20 minute session and contribute to the wall of “portraits” presented to the gallery.

@patricktresset in conversation with @cenestpasvale ahead of "Automata Anima" Chapter 1 exhibition at @artverseparis

Read the full interview 👉 https://www.fvtvrist.com/patrick-tresset by @fvtvr3st
Opening Thursday May 21st 👉 https://luma.com/dlqw81h4?tk=ycgpox
Book your Portrait 👉 https://artverse.youcanbook.me/

ArtVerse Gallery is proud to present Automata Anima (Soul of the Machine), a two-chapter exhibition navigating the symbiotic territories where human instinct meets algorithmic agency. By bringing together the robotic investigations of Patrick Tresset and the phygital cosmologies of Celine Shen, the exhibition explores the “anima”—the vital breath—as a force that flows through carbon and code alike.

Human Study #1,is an installation where the human becomes an actor. In a scene reminiscent of a life drawing class, the human takes the sitter’s role to be sketched by a number of robots. When the subject arrives by appointment, he is seated in an armchair. An assistant attaches sheets of paper on to the robots’ desks and wakes each one up, twisting its arm or knocking three times

Visitors will be able to participate in the performance Human Study #1, and be drawn by robots during a 20 minute session and contribute to the wall of “portraits” presented to the gallery.

@patricktresset in conversation with @cenestpasvale ahead of "Automata Anima" Chapter 1 exhibition at @artverseparis

Read the full interview 👉 https://www.fvtvrist.com/patrick-tresset by @fvtvr3st
Opening Thursday May 21st 👉 https://luma.com/dlqw81h4?tk=ycgpox
Book your Portrait 👉 https://artverse.youcanbook.me/

ArtVerse Gallery is proud to present Automata Anima (Soul of the Machine), a two-chapter exhibition navigating the symbiotic territories where human instinct meets algorithmic agency. By bringing together the robotic investigations of Patrick Tresset and the phygital cosmologies of Celine Shen, the exhibition explores the “anima”—the vital breath—as a force that flows through carbon and code alike.

Human Study #1,is an installation where the human becomes an actor. In a scene reminiscent of a life drawing class, the human takes the sitter’s role to be sketched by a number of robots. When the subject arrives by appointment, he is seated in an armchair. An assistant attaches sheets of paper on to the robots’ desks and wakes each one up, twisting its arm or knocking three times

Visitors will be able to participate in the performance Human Study #1, and be drawn by robots during a 20 minute session and contribute to the wall of “portraits” presented to the gallery.

I Am Entirely There In Conversation with Patrick Tresset
@patricktresset

On the role of the face in his practice, and what happens when two AI agents are left to make sense of contemporary society on their own terms.

⛓️ Read the full dialogue at FVTVRIST.

See Patrick’s work in Paris:

Automata Anima (Soul of the Machine), presented in two chapters:
Chapter I: A solo presentation of Tresset’s work (May 21 – 27)
Chapter II: A duo exhibition with Céline Shen @celine.shen_official (June 2 – June 20)

Curated by Valentina Buzzi @cenestpasvale at ArtVerse Gallery @artverseparis, Paris.

I Am Entirely There In Conversation with Patrick Tresset
@patricktresset

On the role of the face in his practice, and what happens when two AI agents are left to make sense of contemporary society on their own terms.

⛓️ Read the full dialogue at FVTVRIST.

See Patrick’s work in Paris:

Automata Anima (Soul of the Machine), presented in two chapters:
Chapter I: A solo presentation of Tresset’s work (May 21 – 27)
Chapter II: A duo exhibition with Céline Shen @celine.shen_official (June 2 – June 20)

Curated by Valentina Buzzi @cenestpasvale at ArtVerse Gallery @artverseparis, Paris.

I Am Entirely There In Conversation with Patrick Tresset
@patricktresset

On the role of the face in his practice, and what happens when two AI agents are left to make sense of contemporary society on their own terms.

⛓️ Read the full dialogue at FVTVRIST.

See Patrick’s work in Paris:

Automata Anima (Soul of the Machine), presented in two chapters:
Chapter I: A solo presentation of Tresset’s work (May 21 – 27)
Chapter II: A duo exhibition with Céline Shen @celine.shen_official (June 2 – June 20)

Curated by Valentina Buzzi @cenestpasvale at ArtVerse Gallery @artverseparis, Paris.

Algorithmic Fatalism (extract)

2026

Modern humans are increasingly outsourcing their free will to predictive code. From what we eat and watch to who we date or how we vote, we have developed a trait of "submitting to the feed." This is a shift away from personal intuition and toward a reliance on data-driven recommendations. It results in a narrowing of the human experience, where people live within "echo chambers" and feedback loops that reinforce their existing biases, making the individual more predictable and easier to manipulate.

[EXHIBITION]

Chapter I ✶ 21st - 27th of May (Patrick Tresset solo)
Chapter II ✶ 2nd - 20th of June (dialogue between Patrick Tresset and Céline Shen)

🤖Note to the visitors to participate to the performance Human Study #1
Visitors will be able to participate in the performance Human Study #1, and be drawn by robots during a 20 minute session and contribute to the wall of “portraits” presented to the gallery.

To book a session, please use the following link (or link in our bio):
https://artverse.youcanbook.me/

#patricktresset #celineshen #artverse #art #artgallery #digitalart