Freeka Tet

Freeka Tet is an artist based in Brooklyn, NY. Working with animatronics, face-tracking software, and game engines, he creates live performances that deliberately malfunction in real time, treating internet culture as raw material for distortion and reassembly.

Freeka Tet treats internet culture the way a graffiti writer treats a wall: as raw material to be stolen, distorted, and thrown back at the audience. Working across animatronics, face-tracking, DIY software, game engines, and audio-video plunderphonics, the French-born, New York City-based artist builds live performances that are deliberately unstable: sensors misfiring, visuals mutating in real time, the whole thing teetering between spectacle and system crash. His mantra ("doing without knowing") isn't a pose; it's the method. From the STROBE.RIP live A/V project with Amnesia Scanner to directing the "A Barely Lit Path" video for Oneohtrix Point Never, Tet keeps returning to the same question: what happens to perception when the machine is also improvising?