Casey Reas

artworks

Press

Biography

Exhibitions

Casey Reas, Untitled Film Still 1.11

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

Casey Reas, 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

Casey Reas, Tissue prints

Casey Reas, Path 21

Casey Reas, Path 18

Oldenburg, Tara. “Alumnus to create technological retelling of Middle Eastern, South Asian stories,”
Daily Bruin, May 21, 2020
Pepi, Mike. “How Does A Human Critique Art Made By AI?,”
Art in America, May 6, 2020
Bailey, Jason. “Generative Art’s Tools from Flash and Processing to Neural Networks,”
ARTnews, January 8, 2020
Safarzadeh, Anahita. “BITFORMS GALLERY LA,”
Flaunt Magazine, March 20, 2019
Tanni, Valentina. “Programmed. An exhibition at the Whitney Museum in New York tells the instructions in the art,”
Art Tribune, September 30, 2018
Editor. “Cal Poly University Art Gallery to Exhibit Video Projections by Casey Reas Nov. 2 to Dec. 1.,”
Cal Poly, September 2018
Maxwell, Amanda. “Data Visualization Brings the Numbers to Life,”
Now, August 15, 2018
Daly, Rhian. “Watch The National mark Trump’s first year in office with political ‘Walk It Back’ video,”
NME, January 21, 2018
Helman, Peter. “The National – “Walk It Back” Video,”
Stereogum, January 20, 2018
Campbell, Cate, S. “PODCAST: Casey Reas And The Art Of Interactivity,”
Forbes, January 8, 2018
Goukassian, Elena. “19 Artists and Art Groups Light Up Houston’s Day for Night Festival,”
Hyperallergic, December 19, 2017
Braca, Nina. “The National Talk Grammy Nomination & Hypnotic New Video for ‘Sleep Well Beast’: Exclusive Premiere,”
Billboard, December 14, 2017
Josephs, Brian. “Video: The National – “Sleep Well Beast”,”
SPIN, December 14, 2017
Blistein, Jon. “Watch the National’s Vibrant New ‘Sleep Well Beast’ Video,”
Rolling Stone, December 14, 2017
Goldchain, Michelle. “Georgetown will light up this winter with nine public art installations,”
Curbed, November 27, 2017
Brenner, Sean. “A National production: Casey Reas offers inside view of videos for top alt-rock band,”
UCLA Newsroom, September 28, 2017
“You’ve Got To Hear This! The National release final single ‘Day I Die’,”
Volume, September 5, 2017
Yeung, Vivian. “The National release Casey Reas-directed video for Guilty Party,”
Crack Magazine, June 29, 2017
Voon, Claire. “Two Art Projects Help You Fax Your Discontent to Politicians,”
Hyperallergic, April 27, 2017
Baumgardner, Julie. “A Guide to America’s Next Great Art Neighborhood,”
The New York Style Magazine, January 11, 2017
“Extended until March 4: bitforms fifteen-year anniversary exhibition at Minnesota Street Project,”
Art Daily, January 7, 2017
Pangburn, DJ. “Bitforms Gallery Celebrates 15 Years with a Retrospective in San Francisco,”
The Creators Project, November 8, 2016
Khan, Nora, N. “Casey Reas’s Disconcerting Software Paintings,”
The Village Voice, October 13, 2016
Salomone, Andrew. “‘There’s No Distance’ Charts 15 Years of Evolving New Media Art,”
The Creators Project, September 21, 2016
“21 Artists to Watch This September,”
Artspace, September 2, 2016
Weideman, Paul. “All the Pretty Software: CODE and NOISE,”
Santa Fe New Mexican, June 10, 2016
Correia, Nico. “Bridging the gap between art and code,”
UCLA Newsroom, April 25, 2016
Drucker, Johanna, “Nostalgia for the Lost Subject of Technology in the Work of Casey Reas,”
Los Angeles Review of Books, January 29, 2016
Palop, Benoit., “Here’s Everythign Awesome About Processing 3.0,”
The Creators Project, October 19, 2015
Nichols, K, “Casey Reas’ Linear Perspective,”
ArtDepedence Magazine, September 21, 2015
Rosenberg, Karen, “Glimpses of the Past and a High-Tech Future,”
The New York Times, April 3, 2014
Emerson, Rosenthal “Casey Reas’ Newest Artwork Is A Coded, Projected ‘Allegory Of The Cave’,”
The Creators Project, March 14, 2014
Chakya, Kyle. “Pricing Pixels: Breaking Down the Barriers of Selling Digital Art,”
Complex Art + Design, January 22, 2014
Bookhardt, D. Eric, “Review:
Void Loop,” Gambit, August 25, 2013
Hansen, Mark, “Data-Driven Aesthetics,”
The New York Times, June 10, 2013
Monfort, Nick et al, 10 PRINT CHR$(205.5+RND(1));: GOTO 10, MIT Press 2012
Free Press Staff, “Abstraction through technology,”
The Burlington Free Press, March 3, 2012
Swed, Mark, “Dispatch from MiamiL New World Symphony Center Preview,”
Los Angeles Times, January 26, 2011
Tommasini, Anthony, “Airy Home for Music and Its Fans,”
The New York Times, January 26, 2011
Reas, Casey and McWilliams, Chandler,
Form + Code in Design, Architecture, and Art, Princeton Architectural Press 2011
Vogel, Traci, “Gray Area’s new gallery hopes to cast light on an underserved neighborhood,”
San Francisco Weekly, October 21, 2009
Artner, Alan G., “Feast for the eyes and mind: Computer-generated images began more than 50 years ago,”
Chicago Tribune, January 31, 2008
Reas, Casey, and Fry, Ben,
Processing: A Programming Handbook for Visual Designers and Artists, MIT Press
Reas, C.E.B, “Beyond Code,” in Burke, Anthony and Tierney, Therese (ed.),
Network Practices: New Strategies in Architecture and Design, Princeton Architectural Press

b.1972, Troy, OH
Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA

Casey Reas is an artist and educator who lives in Los Angeles. His software, prints, and installations have been featured in numerous solo and group exhibitions at museums and galleries. His work ranges from works on paper to urban-scale installations, and he balances solo work in the studio with collaborations. Reas’ work is in a range of private and public collections, including the Centre Georges Pompidou and the Whitney Museum of American Art. Reas is a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles. He holds a masters degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Media Arts and Sciences and a bachelor’s degree from the College of Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning at the University of Cincinnati. With Ben Fry, Reas initiated Processing in 2001; Processing is an open-source programming language and environment for the visual arts.

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Alchemical, Casey Reas +
Jan St. Werner January 8–February 20, 2021

bitforms gallery LA April 13–May 12, 2019

Make Pictures March 23–March 25, 2018

Fifteen Year Anniversary Exhibition Minnesota Street Project, San Francisco November 5, 2016–March 4, 2017

Casey Reas, There’s No Distance September 10–October 16, 2016

Casey Reas, ULTRACONCENTRATED September 5–October 12, 2013

World on a Wire June 28–August 10, 2012

Art and Electronic Media June 16–July 10, 2009

Casey Reas, Process/Form March 6–April 12, 2008

Summer 2007 Group Show May 20–July 20, 2007

Casey Reas and Suzung Kim December 15, 2006–January 27, 2007