Patrick Tresset is a Brussels-based French artist known for performative installations that explore humanness through computational systems, AI, and robotics. At the centre of his practice are robots, which Tresset calls "stylized actors," programmed with artistic, expressive, and obsessive behaviours that evoke distinctly human traits. Working from research into how humans make marks, perceive artworks, and relate to machines, he crafts computational systems that produce portraitsand still lifes with a quality that is at once mechanical and strangely intimate. "My work is not at all about technology," Tresset has said. "It is about humanness." He holds a Masters and MPhil in Arts and Technology from Goldsmiths College, London.

His installations have been presented in solo and group exhibitions at the Centre Pompidou and Grand Palais in Paris, the Prada Foundation in Milan, the V&A in London, the MMCA in Seoul, Bozar in Brussels, and the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo, among others. His work has been recognised by Lumen, Ars Electronica, the Liedts-Meesen Foundation, and the Japan Media Arts Festival, and in 2017 he was nominated as a WEF Cultural Leader. A monograph, Patrick Tresset: Human Traits and the Art of Creative Machines, was published in 2016. Although Tresset has focused exclusively on his art practice for the past decade, his earlier research is referenced in over 300 academic publications.