Robbie Barrat & Ronan Barrot

Ronan Barrot entered the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts in Paris in 1991. Among his teachers Jean-François Debord, Ouanès Amor, Vincent Bioulès and Jean-Michel Alberola. In 1995, thanks to an Erasmus scholarship, he spent four months at the Baselitz workshop at the Berlin University of the Arts and, in 1997, with a Colin-Lefrancq scholarship, he spent time in Tokyo and Kyoto. The art critic Olivier Céna noticed it during the exhibition of fine arts graduates in 1998.

Ronan’s work is in the collection of Musée d'Art Moderne et Contemporain (MAMCS), Strasbourg, Musee d'art Moderne, Paris, FRAC Ile de France-Le Plateau, Fondation Massini, Nice and many others.

Born in Dublin in 1999, Robbie grew up in West Virginia. After graduating high school, he worked at NVIDIA, then as a researcher in a bioinformatics lab at Stanford university, before moving to Europe to attend art school and work as an artist full time.

Barrat explores a variety of domains through machine learning and GANs (generative adversarial networks), including fashion, architecture, and art history.

Barrat considers A.I both as a medium and as a tool. His interest lies in how the machine can misinterpret training material.

Barrat’s first show, “Infinite Skulls' ' a confrontation with French painter Ronan Barrot took place at the Avant Galerie Vossen in Feb 2019.

His earlier work is characterized by exploring AI as a tool and subject matter, making works that seek to define the position of an artist working with AI within the history of art. More recently, his work focuses on using AI as a component/tool in a wider process of creation, no longer focusing directly on AI as the sole subject matter.

His last exhibitions: Late Tate during Nam June Paik show, Neural Network Balenciaga, Musée de la mode Hasselt, Ars Electronica , System Failure San Francisco, ArtJaws New York, Robbie Barrat 2018-2020 à l’Avant Galerie Vossen.