Electric Op at Buffalo AKG Art MuseumAn emerging movement called “Op” (short for “Optical”) took art and popular culture by storm. Op artists use abstract patterns to create optical illusions that are dynamic and interactive, much like the electronic images of the time.

A Personal List of Some of The Most Interesting Digital-Art Experiments of 2023At bitforms gallery, Casey Reas’s latest exhibition, It Doesn’t Exist (In Any Other Form), delves into conceptual software painting, utilizing simulation and computer graphics.

The Art of IntelligenceCompressed Cinema is a series of five audiovisual works, a collaboration between Casey Reas and Jan St. Werner. Reas created the imagery in the tradition of experimental films that use existing films as raw materials. […] Each piece marries Reas’s visuals with Werner’s musical compositions.

Manfred Mohr, Refik Anadol, Quayola, Casey Reas at Art SGApplying what he has described as ‘programmed expressionism,’ Mohr is known for creating striking drawings using plotters, mechanical devices that hold a pen that sketches lines (generated by algorithms) on paper. His recent sculptural experiments, computer-generated algorithmic aluminum wall structures, will be a highlight of bitforms’ booth.

Casey Reas and Art After the Crypto CrashFeral File, launched in 2020, is one of the more inventive projects to come out of the recent convergence of digital art with Blockchain and NFT platforms.

The Godfather of Generative Art Goes GlobalCasey Reas, an artist and software designer who has pioneered the use of automated computer code in creating digital art for over 20 years, recalls how much lonelier—and cumbersome—things used to be prior to the rise of NFTs, which made it much easier to sell original digital artwork.

Alchemical by Jan St Werner and Casey Reas now on view at bitforms gallerybitforms gallery is pleased to introduce ​Alchemical​, a collaborative exhibition by Casey Reas and Jan St. Werner. ​Alchemical presents the artists’ suite of videos alongside a selection of prints by Casey Reas. The online component of this exhibition is presented in collaboration with New Art City.

How does a human critique art made by AI? Featuring “Making Pictures with Generative Adversarial Networks” by Casey Reas

Today’s Ideology: For sale to benefit Democratic CandidatesThe series Today’s Ideology by Casey Reas uses editorial photos from The New York Times to create generative collages. Each work in the series is made on the day referenced in the title and consists of all images from that day’s paper. On December 19, 2019 the House of Representatives voted to impeach the President. In response to this historically important day, Casey Reas and bitforms gallery will donate all proceeds from sales of Today’s Ideology (19 December 2019) to support Democratic candidates in the 2020 election.

Collecting in the Age of Digital Reproduction Casey Reas“In the art market, almost everything sold is an object such as a drawing, a painting, a sculpture, an installation, or a photograph, but there are some exceptions. These deviations may include a contract, a set of instructions, a digital video file, or a software file. These are all examples of art as information rather than material.“