The Artistic Side of Artificial Intelligence
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Meet Patrick Tresset, a London-based artist. His art practice follows two main paths. On one hand, Tresset presents theatrical installations in which robotic agents are actors. He also crafts the computational systems driving the robots so that their behavior can be perceived as artistic, expressive and even obsessive. These systems are influenced by research into actual human behavior—more specifically, how humans make marks or draw, how humans depict other humans, how humans perceive artwork, and how humans relate to robots.
Originally a painter, Tresset is part of a generation of artists coming out of Goldsmiths College’s computing department. In 2004 Tresset joined Goldsmiths for an MSc degree in Arts Computing where from 2009 to 2012 he co-directed the AIkon-II project, which aimed to model and understand the sketching process. He also developed and taught the creative robotics module at Goldsmiths. In 2013 Patrick was a Senior Fellow at the Zukunftskolleg, University of Konstanz working with Prof. Deussen. Tresset has published research papers in the fields of computational aesthetics, social robotics, drawing research and AI.
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