Robbie Barrat

Artwork

• Playstation 1 (2026-current)
  Generative artwork (flower pieces, landscapes) running on the playstation 1, some video sculpture (furniture) with 16:9 CRT tubes and ps1 console inside.


• Big Buck Hunter: Restoration (2022-2026)
  Multi-year project, reverse engineering and modification of Incredible Technologies' 2000 arcade title "Big Buck Hunter", to 'restore' the game world back into a pre-fall/edenic state.


• Landscapes (2021-2026)
  Landscapes made using primarially generative techniques, with light use of neural networks (cycleGAN/pix2pixHD) incorporated into the process.


• Landscapes / Skulls in collaboration with Ronan Barrot (2024)
  Series of work in collaboration with Ronan Barrot, focusing primarially on landscapes.


• Tapestry collaboration with Jonas Jeppesen (2022)
  Landscape tapestries produced in collaboration with Jonas Jeppesen.


• L-systems studies / e-Ink work (2021-2025)
  Series of work of L-systems (Lindenmayer systems), generative flower pieces usually presented frozen on disconnected e-Ink panels. This work also highlights one of my main interests; the connection between creating artwork with a programming language and the creation of the world through language in Genesis.


• Counter-Strike: Afterstory / Counter-Strike paintings (2020-2026)
  Series of work heavily inspired by "Velvet Strike", character studies of the T and CT from CS 1.6 relating to the popularity of Counter-Strike Surf versus normal gamemodes. Some paintings of various Counter-Strike maps/gamemodes.


• "Radiate" (2021)
  Performance and video sculpture. Collaboration between Joeri Woudstra and Robbie Barrat. Took place at "Stroom Den Haag" on March 20, 2021


• Landscapes after Gardening Software (Saint Nazaire) (2020-2023)
  Landscapes process that came directly from working with the Gardening Software (the entry below this one).


• Gardening Software (2019-2023)
  Investigation / study of visual artifacts found in older 3D software that evolved into a landscapes process.


• Figure Studies (2019-2020)
  Seeking to try and do exercises like a traditional artist instead of just trying to make finished artworks.


• ACNE STUDIOS x ROBBIE BARRAT (Jan 19, 2020)
  A collaboration with Swedish fashion house Acne Studios for their Fall Winter 2020 collection.


• BARRAT/BARROT: Infinite Skulls (Feb 2019)
  A collaboration and confrontation between AI artist Robbie Barrat and French painter Ronan Barrot. Jason Bailey (Artnome) wrote a wonderful article about this work here


• Balenciaga (2018-2019)
  Project using AI (densepose+pix2pixHD) to create imaginary looks / fanart of Balenciaga's FW18 show. Also read the SSENSE Article


• GPT-2 After Sol LeWitt (Sept 2019)
  Using OpenAI's language model to generate drawing rules, interpreted into generative sketches.


• GAN Discriminator Collaging (2019)
  Attempt at producing imagery with only using the Discriminator of a GAN (Generative Adversarial Network) and not the Generator (the part which generates images).


• Corrections Series (March 2019)
  Work seeking to adjust images of painted nude portraits to reveal the neural network's internal idea of the body.


• Nude Portraits + Landscapes (Artnome Article) (April 2018)
  Article by Jason Bailey covering some of my first AI generated nude portraits + landscapes.

Other posts + Writing

• Fattori, Corot, Morandi, Barrot - small collection of some of my favorite artwork. (2026)
• Martinsburg Granite - images of my studio, set up after I finished university and moved back to West Virginia (2026).
• Iconography / Frescoes - small post about a visit to see frescoes by Fr. Gregory Kroug at the Church of the "Notre Dame de Kazan" in Moisenay, France (2026)

Interviews + Press

• (Recent) Favorites:


• Right Click Save Robbie Barrat on "The Lost Robbies" (March 2022)
• Le Monde At Paris Photo, the images move seamlessly from the real to the virtual (November 2023)
• NFT Morning #491 | Interview with OG artist Robbie Barrat aka Videodrome (2023)
• Museum of Crypto MC Weekly Round Up #31 - Robbie BARRAT, 2021–2024, solo show at L'Avant Galerie Vossen (2025)


• 2025:


• Museum of Crypto MC Weekly Round Up #31 - Robbie BARRAT, 2021–2024, solo show at L'Avant Galerie Vossen (2025)


• 2024:


• Studio International Awaken, Metamagical Hands - review (2024)
• Konbini Arts Qui est Robbie Barrat, l'un des pionniers du crypto-art? (2024)
• Evening Standard - Awaken, Metamagical Hands - must-see exhibition (2024)


• 2023:


• Blind Magazine When AI Takes the Stage at Paris Photo (2023)
• Le Monde À Paris Photo, les images passent avec aisance du virtuel au réel - "Landscape Deer" & "Big Buck Hunter" mentioned (November 2023)
• The Digital Art Times Robbie Barrat: the AI pioneer who is redefining the future of art (2023)
• NFT Morning #491 | Interview with OG artist Robbie Barrat aka Videodrome (2023)
• Kunstforum International Künstliche Intelligenz und die Frage nach der künstlerischen Autorinnenschaft (2023)


• 2022:


• Right Click Save Robbie Barrat on "The Lost Robbies" (March 2022)
• NightCafe Creator AI Artist Spotlight: Robbie Barrat (2022)
• The NFT Magazine Robbie Barrat: The Outsider of NFT (March 2022)
• France Info (AFP) Il y a 4 ans, on jetait ses coupons numériques à la poubelle... Aujourd'hui, on s'arrache les NFT rescapés de Robbie Barrat, pionnier du crypto-art (April 2022)
• Les Echos Robbie Barrat, 22 ans, la star des NFT et du crypto-art que personne n'a vu venir (2022)


• 2021:


• Art net news In 2018, Christie’s Gave Away 300 Free NFTs (2021)


• Before 2020:


• It's Nice That "These are important visual moments": artist Robbie Barrat pushes, tests and breaks AI in his works (2020)
• Dazed Magazine Robbie Barrat - Dazed 100 Profile List (2020)
• Artnome AI Artist Robbie Barrat and Painter Ronan Barrot Collaborate on "Infinite Skulls" (2019)
• France Info & AFP Art et intelligence artificielle font bon ménage (2019)
• Flaunt Magazine Robbie Barrat's AI-generated Fashion Designs are a Glimpse of a Strange and Beautiful Future (2019)
• Uzbek&Rica « Infinite Skulls » : l’expo qui fait dialoguer art et intelligence artificielle (2019)
• TheVerge A never-ending stream of AI art goes up for auction (2019)
• SSENSE Do Androids Dream of Balenciaga SS29 (2019) (French Version)
• Les Echos Sabato Et si la mode était créée par un algorithme? (2019)
• Artnome / Christie's Robbie Barrat Interview At Christie's Art+Tech Summit (July 2019)
• The Drum AI artist behind art for latest Bloomberg cover (2018)
• Adweek Bloomberg's Cover Features a Portrait Created by AI (2018)
• Boing Boing Robbie Barrat's AI-generated nude paintings make Francis Bacon look like a genteel pre-Raphaelite (2018)
• InsideHook Robbie Barrat AI Surreal Art Nudes (2018)
• Dazed Digital An AI-made artwork just sold for more at auction than most artists do (2018)
• Vice Magazine (Motherboard) A Teenager Used AI to Generate Bizarre, Surreal Nude Portraits (2018)
• Wired How a Teenager's Code Spawned a $432,500 Piece of Art (2018)
• Fortune AI art, Christie's, Robbie Barrat (2018)
• Bloomberg Businessweek AI Made Incredible Paintings in About Two Weeks - (2018)
• Stanford Daily Q&A: Robbie Barrat on training neural networks to create art (June 2018)
• Paprika! Magazine (Yale) The Artist, The Curator, and the Neural Net: A Conversation with Robbie Barrat (November 2018)
• Fortune Teenager Teaches A.I. to Rap Like Kanye (2017)
• The Fader Listen To An AI Rap Based On Kanye West's Lyrics (2017)
• Quartz A West Virginia teen taught himself how to build a rapping AI using Kanye West lyrics (2017)
• Complex Magazine 17-Year-Old Uses 6,000 Kanye West Lyrics to Build a Rapping A.I. Bot (2017)
• Live Science Teen-Programmed AI Spits Rhymes Like Kanye West (2017)

Early Work + Archives

• Nude Portraiture + Landscapes - Technical explorations into GANs.
• Legacy Website Archive (~2018) - Older projects and materials (2016-2017), includes the projects: Art-DCGAN, Neural Network as a Video Game Shader, Sculpture GAN / AI Generated Sculptures, Generative Sketches Using Electrical Signals from Plants, and Neural Network Generated Kanye West Songs.