{"id":69,"date":"2012-09-19T02:29:32","date_gmt":"2012-09-19T09:29:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/getsetmore.tumblr.com\/post\/31824733607"},"modified":"2019-02-05T17:21:24","modified_gmt":"2019-02-05T17:21:24","slug":"6-robots-named-paul-by-patrick-tresset","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.setmore.com\/blog\/6-robots-named-paul-by-patrick-tresset\/","title":{"rendered":"6 Robots Named Paul by Patrick Tresset &#8211; Setmore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What\u2019s a computer-scientist-turned-painter to do when the medication to treat his bipolar disorder strips him of his passion to create art? Return to his tech roots, and create a robot who can draw in his old style, of course.<\/p>\n<p>Tresset\u2019s robot, Paul, is \u201can obsessive drawing entity,\u201d that can mimic the behavior and movements of an artist engrossed in a freehand sketch. When a subject sits for Paul, its camera \u2018eyes\u2019 pan up and down as the pen in its \u2018hand\u2019 scribbles frantically on the paper in front of it. The end result is a sketch drawn in Tresset\u2019s own style.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA few years back I read an article by Michel Houellebeck, the French writer, and in this article he talks about cloning as a way to reach immortality. If you have a clone of yourself, and this clone clones himself, and so on and so forth, you reach a form of immortality. But the problem with this theory is that you lose your skills. So I think the solution for that is to take the best of yourself and put it in a robot, then if people repair the robot you can reach a certain form of immortality.\u201d \u2014Patrick Tresset<\/p>\n<p>Six of Tresset\u2019s Paul robots are on display next month at the Merge Festival in London\u2019s Bankside. Festival attendees can book a free appointment (with Setmore!) to sit for five of the six robots, to have their portrait sketched from five different angles. The resulting sketches are displayed together as part of the exhibition.<\/p>\n<p>Bankside\u2019s Merge Festival starts tomorrow, September 19th, and runs through October 21st. 6 Robots Named Paul is on display October 10th \u2013 October 21st. For more information, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/mergefestival.co.uk\/artists\/6-robots-named-paul-by-patrick-tresset.html\">Merge Festival\u2019s official site<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Editor\u2019s Notes:<\/strong> This is an outdated post from September 2012. Setmore has been revamped with more features and a new look. 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