Pierre Buttin

pier.bu@gmail.com

London-based illustrator

The New York Times Book Review – The Measure

The Big Issue (UK newspaper, print only)

The New York Times Book Review – The God of Endings

The New Yorker – The Thorny Problem of Keeping the Internet’s Time

The New Yorker – Whispers of A.I.’s Modular Future

Personal work

The Atlantic – What the longest study of human happiness found is the key to a good life (Main illustration and spots)

The New York Times Book Review – Call Me Cassandra

The New York Times – How to Tell the Difference Between Regular Distraction and A.D.H.D.

Politico Europe (magazine cover) – Will the real Emmanuel Macron please stand up!?

Politico Europe – Print only

The Gentleman’s Journal (UK, print only)

CapitalG

Archive

I wrote a 700-page autobiography to train a neural network with. The algorithm generated text, that I cut out and rearranged into poems. Lastly, I painted those poems.

A video of me as a robot.

For 10 days, I went on a dating app and swiped right to everyone. I took a screenshot of every profile. Each day, I merged the 100 screenshots in a single image. I ended up with a series of 10 images, amounting to 1000 people.

Every Christmas, Grenoble’s contemporary art center has an exhibition. In the tradition of Christmas advent calendars, I sent the jury one application letter every day, for 24 days. Eventually, the museum showed the 24 letters.

Supercut of every time a brand is mentioned in Sex and the City, in alphabetical order.

To be selected in an exhibition (Salon de Montrouge), I collected 500 signatures of French artists. I was selected, and displayed the signatures.

For an exhibition in Lille, I didn’t know what to do. I went to the platform Fiverr, looked up users who sold “ideas” and asked them to sell me ideas for an exhibition. Someone sold me 12 ideas for $5.50. I’ve printed them out and sold them for more.

© Pierre Buttin 2022