Casey Reas

Casey Reas and Jan St. Werner, Untitled 1 (No. Nothing.)

Casey Reas and Jan St. Werner, Untitled 2 (Kiss me.)

Casey Reas and Jan St., Werner Untitled 3 (I withdraw.)

Casey Reas and Jan St. Werner, Untitled 4 (Two dead!)

Casey Reas and Jan St. Werner, Untitled 5 (Not now. No, no.)

Casey Reas, Untitled Film Still 1.11

Casey Reas, Untitled Film Still 1.12

Casey Reas, Untitled Film Still 1.15

Casey Reas Untitled Film Still 1.22-22_1_w

Earthly Delights 1.2, 2019 Custom software (color, silent)

Earthly Delights 1.3, 2019 Custom software (color, silent)

Earthly Delights 2.2, 2019 Custom software (color, silent)

Earthly Delights 2.3

Still Life (HSB B)

Still Life (HSB A)

Still Life (RGB-AV A)

Still Life (RGB B)

KTTV (August 2015)

AYFABTU (Followers 3K)

AYFABTU (Followers 2K)

AYFABTU (Followers 1K)

Today’s Ideology (19 July 2015)

RGB-056-006-080-823-715

HSB-119-006-090-1366-618 / HSB-135-006-090-1232-687

Path (Software 2)

Path (Software 1)

One-Point Perspective

A Mathematical Theory of Communication

Yes No (Software 2)

Pfft!

Even the Greatest Stars Discover Themselves in the Looking Glass, an Allegory of the Cave for Three People

Signal to Noise (Software 5)

Ultraconcentrated

Primitives (This Could be an Extraordinary Find)

Substrate (You’re in Deep. You Certainly Are.)

Substrate (Everything. Every Detail.)

Control Room (Forward Command Post)

Tox Screen

100% Gray Coverage

Signal to Noise (Software 3)

Americans!

Process 16 (Software 3)

Process 18

Signals

Path B

Path

Chronograph Variations A-3 (K-02-0528)

Chronograph Variations H-3 (C-19-4799)

Chronograph Variations H-1 (A-17-1210)

Chronograph Variations H-2 (B-12-5536)

Chronograph Variations C-3 (H-16-0486)

Chronograph Variations F-1 (D-23-0078)

Chronograph

Process 16 (Software 2)

Process 18 (Software 2)

Process 18 (Software 3)

Process 18 (Image A 9,10)

Process 4 (Installation 3)

Surface

Process 18 (Image 3) / Process 18 (Image 4)

Process 14

Protean Image

Process 11 (Image 1)

Process 11 (Installation 1)

Process 12 (Image 3)

Process 9

Process 15

Process 8 (Image 1)

Process 4 (Image 1)

Process 6 (Image 2)

MicroImage Triptych

Tissue

cr_tissue_install_1_w

cr_path_21_w

cr_path18_w

b. 1972, United States.
Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA

Casey Reas writes software to explore emergent systems. His work brings together conceptualism, systems theory, experimental film and animation, and drawing. While software is at the core of his practice, his work spans installation, works on paper, and live performance.

Reas has been featured in exhibitions at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, SF; Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France; Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England; Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, FL; MIT Museum, Cambridge, MA; Zendai Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai, China; Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA; Eyebeam, New York, NY; Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria; and the Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany. Commissions have been awarded by the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY and the New World Symphony, Miami, FL.

Reas is the co-creator, with Ben Fry, of Processing, an open source programming language and environment. The project was initiated in 2001; in 2012, Reas and Fry started the Processing Foundation along with Daniel Shiffman. In 2012, Reas co-wrote and designed the book 10 PRINT CHR$(205.5+RND(1)); : GOTO 10 (MIT Press, 2013). Reas and Fry published Processing: A Programming Handbook for Visual Designers and Artists (MIT Press, 2007/2014). With Chandler McWilliams and LUST, Reas published Form+Code in Design, Art, and Architecture (Princeton Architectural Press, 2010), a non-technical introduction to the history, theory, and practice of software in the visual arts.

Reas is a professor in the Department of Design Media Arts at the University of California, Los Angeles. He holds a Masters degree in Media Arts and Sciences from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Bachelors degree from the College of Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning at the University of Cincinnati.

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