Robbie Barrat

"Robbie Barrat is a very young artist, and the person who created that collection in the 2018 Christie's Art and Blockchain Conference. He has tended to gravitate away from NFTs. It is a very controversial topic of how much he doesn't like NFTs. He focuses on AI, digital art. He is extremely motivated in his practice. The last time I saw him in Paris a year ago, the passion in which he was describing what he was doing…he was telling me about how he was creating these works which use these specialised tubes that were inside of old televisions. And that he needed to have this specific tube to have this specific way, and it was so impressive to see him speaking about it. I actually bought one of his works in that show. I kind of like that it is so anti-NFTs. It is a fresh change in the space."

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ABOUT

Robbie Barrat (b.1999) is a Dublin-born, West Virginia-raised artist, who uses machine learning and GANs, to explore fashion, architecture, and art history, focusing on AI's interpretation of data. Barrat's art, which views AI as both a medium and a tool, has been exhibited internationally, including at the Musée de la Mode Hasselt, Ars Electronica, System Failure in San Francisco, ArtJaws in New York, and the Late Tate during the Nam June Paik show. His debut show, Infinite Skulls, was a collaboration with French painter Ronan Barrot at Avant Galerie Vossen in 2019. Initially focused on AI as both tool and subject, his recent work integrates AI into a broader creative process.

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