Patrick Tresset: "Animals, Man, Machine: Artificial Studies. - Human Study #2
Patrick Tresset is known for his performative installations. In those, robots participate as drawing machines, developed by the artist himself.
In his work, Tresset explores human characteristics. It reflects recurring ideas that are closely connected to being human like childhood, possessiveness, nervousness, as well as the need to tell stories and set examples.
Tresset’s exhibition Human Study #2 for the donumenta e.V. is inspired by the baroque idea of the Vanitas. His installation uses a variety of animal specimens by the Natural History Museum Ostbayern. A nervously drawing robot draws a seemingly endlessly updating Vanitas image. The robot is based on Tresset’s style and technique but the machine acts like an independent artist who produces autonomous interpretations. The audience can observe the robot while it draws several arrangements of the artefacts.
Patrick Tresset
*Noyon, France. Master of Philosophy for Art and Technology at the Goldsmith College in London, lives and works in Brussels.
June 4, 2024, 6.30 p.m.: EXHIBITION OPENING “Animals, Man, Machine: Artificial Studies Human Study #2”
POP UP-Raum, Degginger, Regensburg
Speeches by
Dr. Astrid Freudenstein, Mayor of the City of Regensburg
Regina Hellwig-Schmid, Artistic director of donumenta e. V., curator
June 4, 2024, 7 p.m.: ARTISTTALK & PODIUM “Computer-generated art - drawn by robots - idea - design - reception"(in English)
As part of the Network Tuesday of Creatives (industry evening of the cultural and creative industries in Regensburg - organized by the Forum Kreativwirtschaft and the Kreativbehörde Regensburg
Participants:
Patrick Tresset, artist
Regina Hellwig-Schmid, Artistic Director of donumenta e. V., Curator
Moderation: Clemens Rudolph, Chairman of Forum Kreativwirtschaft
Juli 21, 2024, 11 a.m. – 1 p.m.: MATINEE & PODIUM
at the Natural History Museum of Eastern Bavaria, Am Prebrunntor 4, Regensburg
Exhibition of computer-generated drawings by Patrick Tresset.
Speeches by
Wouter Vahl, Director of the Natural History Museum of Eastern Bavaria
Barbara-Sophie Höcherl, artist
Elisabeth Peterlik, artist
Moderation: Regina Hellwig-Schmid
