Co-founder, Rubedo (London)

Laurent-Paul Robert is an artist, film director, photographer and musician.

From 1987 - 1992, he was part of the Swiss art group Graffichik, exhibiting and performing internationally. While also working in broadcasting, he began to use media as a means of radical theory, and was later mentored by the cult director Alejandro Jodorowsky.

He developed a practice in 3D animation in the and became lead art director and senior artist for computer games in 1995, collaborating with Moebius, Philippe Druillet and Paulo Coelho. He developed a 3D/4D and real-time technique for architectural visualisation and also designed the first artistic (non-commercial) satellite.
He has been a foresight and innovation consultant to Ove Arup and Partners, providing real-time technology solutions for iconic architectures such as the Serpentine Pavilion.

As technical director and lead artist, Laurent has created innovative visual effects for TV advertising with The Mill as well as Hollywood films produced by Warner Bros., Universal, 20th Century Fox and Dreamworks, with Double Negative; these films won a string of awards including Oscar, BAFTA, VES and Palme d’or.

Laurent-Paul Robert is also director of Rubedo, an art practice and a think tank he founded with Dr Vesna Petresin Robert in London in 2005.

Rubedo explore the relations between aesthetics, complex geometry, acoustics and synaesthesia, through performance, installation and artefact.

The work integrates sound, space, moving image and narrative using customised digital and analogue tools and trans-disciplinary methods. It takes art outside the ‘white cube’ experience and explores sound in relation to space, time and user interaction. Rubedo use their ‘harmonographic’ technique of mapping audio visual data networks, as well as composition methods based on aleatory, emergent patterns and particle fields.

Rubedo have recently featured at the Royal Academy of Arts, Royal Festival Hall, Casa da Musica, Venice Biennale, Beijing Biennale of Architecture, the Critics’ Selection at Cannes International Film Festival and Vienna Art Week.

Their combined experience in art, architecture, visual theory, music, film, games, education, psychology, engineering and IT, allowed Rubedo to pursue research and development in adaptive environments, parametric modeling, digital manufacturing and bionic design.