Reas, who has been writing software to create visual art for over a decade, expressed interest in applying his expertise to new concepts once given the opportunity to work on a highly calibrated team project. Casey reas, process 9 installation 1 what are some of your future projects. Other readers will always be interested in your opinion of the books youve read. Mitra fabian, debra greene, casey reas, and robert strati create works that flirt with the idea that infinity can be made tangible. Software is not limited to running on desktop computers, laptops, tablets, and phones. In this presentation, a hybrid of a screening and a presentation, hell share a selection from twelve years of work to address these questions. His work varies from small works on paper to buildingscale software installations. A programming handbook for visual designers and artists mit press, 2007. Casey reas, creative coding for art and design clot magazine. Casey reas writes software to explore emergent systems. Reas is perhaps best known for having created, with ben fry, the processing programming language. Process software 2 is an interpretation of the process text. Casey reas has written custom software for over a decade to explore visual systems and emergent form.
Why use a paintbrush when you can make mindbending art with. Casey reas is an artist and cocreator of processing, a wellknown programming language. Im planning an ambitious work, the equivalent of a novel or symphony, but its of a new form unique to software. The trick is to feel good about the work five and ten years later. The imagery evokes transformation, and visualizes systems in motion and at rest. Reas began writing software to produce his own complex images, which take the form of prints, installations, and sitespecific digital murals. Reas ongoing process series explores the relationship between naturally evolved systems and those that are synthetic. Using tools of science like computer software or invented rules that are based on science but are in fact fake, these artists employ similar processes of repeated patterns to investigate infinite outcomes.
Mar 20, 2017 casey reas is an artist and cocreator of processing, a wellknown programming language. See more ideas about generative art, art and abstract landscape. Its always the latest, so right now its onepoint perspective. Contemporary cameras, copiers, elevators, toys, washing machines, and artworks found in galleries and museums are controlled with software. When designers and artists learn the basics of writing software, they develop a new form of literacy that enables them to create new media for the present, and to imagine future media that are beyond the capacities of current software tools. Casey reas is a professor in the department of design media arts at ucla and a graduate of the mit media laboratory. Inspired by sol lewitts wall drawings, software structures explores the relevance of conceptual art to the idea of software as art. Through defining emergent networks and layered instructions, he has defined a unique area of visual experience that builds upon concrete art, conceptual art, experimental animation, and drawing. Since 2001, processing has promoted software literacy within the visual arts and visual literacy within technology. 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. Reas holds a bachelor of science in design from the college of design, architecture, art, and planning at the university of cincinnati 1996, as well as a master of science in media arts and sciences from the massachusetts institute of technology 2001. Reas software art projects typically explore systems, specifically their emergence and underlying instructions and conditions.
A process defines an environment for elements and determines how the relationships between the elements are visualized. Casey reas created three unique structurestext descriptions outlining dynamic relations between elementswhich were then implemented. The visual arts are rapidly changing as media moves into the web, mobile devices, and architecture. We pointed out reas as a 2012 trendsetter for his multimedia designs that we came across on the creators project website, where he is credited along with ben fry as the inventor of the opensource.
Casey reas 2004 present updated 20 august 2010 an element is a simple machine that is comprised of a form and one or more behaviors. Instructions form the basis of all generative art, in which a processsuch as a. Casey reas reas software, prints, and installations have been featured in solo and group exhibitions at museums and galleries in the united states, europe, and asia. Its currently unobtainable because it goes beyond anything ive seen and that i can currently imagine.
His project is accessible in the atrium of the gates dell complex during regular building hours. Casey reas can sometimes seem like a onetrick pony, following sol lewitt with new tools. Beyond owing their form and aesthetic to those rules, they inherently question the use of programming in their creation, challenging our understanding of art as an emotionallydriven, deeply human practice. He and designer and software consultant ben fry developed it as a free and open source programming language for artists, designers and researchers. He and designer and software consultant ben fry developed it as a free and open source programming language. Reas software, prints, and installations have been featured in numerous solo and group exhibitions at museums and galleries in the united states, europe, and asia. Casey reas artist interview series electric objects. Each of the images in the book is one of infinite variations derived from a single. These deviations may include a contract, a set of instructions, a digital video file, or a software. Reas software has been featured in numerous solo and group exhibitions at museums and galleries in the united states, europe, and asia. Its inspiring and i expect will remain relevant for the ideas longer than the tools used in the examples. Casey reas is a computational artist and codeveloper of processing, a programming language geared towards the visual arts reas software, prints and installations have been featured in numerous solo and group exhibitions at museums and galleries in the united states, europe and asia. Reas software has been featured in numerous solo and group exhibitions at museums and galleries in the united states, europe.
Casey reas writes software to explore conditional systems as art. Programming of software has been the exclusive domain of hardcore programmers and it specialists for a long time. Mitra fabian, debra greene, robert strati and casey reas create works that flirt with the idea that infinity can be made tangible. Processing is a flexible software sketchbook and a language for learning how to code within the context of the visual arts.
For each of them, you may view the software, source code, and comments. Can we see a picture of your workspace andor desktop. Process bisect a rectangular surface and define the dividing line as the origin for a large group of element 1. Aug 22, 2016 to further define the concept of software structures, i wrote and commissioned twentyfour implementations of these structures to isolate different aspects including interpretation, material, and process. His software, prints, and installations have been featured in numerous solo and group exhibitions at museums and galleries in the united states, europe, and asia. Casey reas and ben fry where the originators of the programming langauge called processing. Software structures whitney museum of american art. A mathematical theory of communication is a series of landscapes created by blending ideas from conceptual art and information science. Reas processes and software structures are presented in different forms. Casey reass disconcerting software paintings the village voice.
Organized into themes linked to aspects of coderepetition, transformation,parameters, visualization, and simulationeach of the books sections contains an. Software erkki huhtamo trouble at the interface or the identity crisis of interactive art 2004 lev manovich database as symbolic form 1999 florian cramer concepts, notations, software, art 2002 casey reas software structures 2004 excerpts from ursula meyer conceptual art 1972. Casey edwin barker reas born 1972, also known as c. Architecture, art and science in the age of software development architectural design.
United visual artists, mark hansen and ben rubin, rafael lozanohemmer, christian moeller, jennifer steinkamp, carsten nicolai. Casey reas and ben fry champion the exciting power of programming for creatives in getting started with processing, a handson guide for making codebased drawings and interactive graphics. Casey reas writes software to explore emergent systems and his work spans. This repo includes code from jared tarbell jaredtarbell, robert hodgin flight404, william ngan williamngan, and casey reas reas. Reas ongoing process series explores the relationship.
When each element moves beyond the surface, move its position back to. In 2003, reas published software structures for the whitney museum of american arts artport. Casey reas, chandler mcwilliams, lust princeton architectural press. In 2003, reas published software structures for the whitney museum of. Yes no software 2 network d image 2 100% gray coverage i want programming to be as immediate and fluid as drawing.
Casey reas cocreated processing, an opensource programming language and environment for creating images and animation. Reas and fry are clear and direct, but as artists, theyre not afraid to be a bit eccentric and offbeat. Jan 9, 2014 casey reas, software structures 2004 stay safe and healthy. Casey reas is professor of design media arts at ucla and coauthor of processing. To a considerable extent, his work has defined both the practice in this field and the theoretical discourse surrounding it. Casey reas writes software to explore emergent systems and his work spans installation, works on paper, and live performance. Groupauthored academic book in the software studies domain about a oneline. Commission, landmarks, the university of texas at austin, 2014 location. Software with hundreds of elements all performing intense calculation e.
Through defining emergent networks and layered instructions, he has defined a unique area of visual experience that builds upon concrete art, conceptual art, experimental animation and drawing. Drawing on walls constrains form to a specific place and therefore maintains. Unless otherwise noted, the software was created with processing. Hes currently working on a video mural commission for the new world symphonys new frank gehry campus, to open january 25, 2011. Casey reas ongoing process series explores the relationship between naturally evolved systems and those that are synthetic. Its my office and also the home of the ucla arts software studio. This site archives the work of casey reas from 2001present. Casey reas is the recipient of a 2008 tribeca film institute media arts fellowship supported by the rockefeller foundation.
Reas or casey reas, is an american artist whose conceptual, procedural and minimal artworks explore ideas through the contemporary lens of software. In the tradition of the 90s www, this site is always a work in progress and rough around the edges. A different structure with intense drawing and without excessive calculation would run excellently in flash. Created by casey reas in association with jared tarbell, robert hodgin, and william ngan.
A mathematical theory of communication by casey reas bridges the gap between the technical world of programming and the visual realm of art and design. Instructions form the basis of all generative art, in which a processsuch as a computer program, machine, or other procedural inventionis set into motion and, with some degree of autonomy, creates a work of art. His work ranges from small works on paper to urbanscale installations, and he balances solo work in the studio with collaborations with architects and musicians. Artist casey reas, whose fourth solo show, theres no distance, is on. Please practice handwashing and social distancing, and check out our resources for adapting to these times. Why use a paintbrush when you can make mindbending art with code. See more ideas about generative art, coding courses and coding. The first version launched in 2001 java based but with key drawing tool that allowed artists and designers to expore drawing with code in an eaiser format. Curated projects from artists that combine media and architecture.
It allows nonprogrammers to code and to see the result immediately in the form of a visual sketchbook. Introduction to programming for the visual arts with p5. Assembling this book, though, he reasserted himself as a leader in generative art. Over the past fifteen years casey reas has emerged as one of the leading artists in the field of software art. Commissioned by the whitney museum of american art for its artport website ap. I often spend a few days creating a core piece of technical code and then months working with it intuitively, modifying it without considering the core algorithms. But nowadays working with code is becoming more and. Lewitt has spent his entire career to date planning wall drawings with static structures. In some ways, my first large work, the tissue series, shown at the bitforms gallery in 2002 is special. Reas created three unique structures text descriptions outlining dynamic relations between elements which were then implemented as 26 pieces.
Whether youve loved the book or not, if you give your honest and detailed thoughts then people will find new books that are right for them. Equally embracing the qualitative human perception and the quantitative rules that define digital culture, organic form emerges from precise mechanical structures. Collecting in the age of digital reproduction artnome. My software structures 2004 is on display at the whitney museum of american art in programmed. To further define the concept of software structures, i wrote and commissioned twentyfour implementations of these structures to isolate different aspects including interpretation, material, and process. Why use a paintbrush when you can make mindbending art. The development platform consisted of the atmega168 microcontroller as its brains and used an ide based on processing, which was cocreated by casy reas. Form code in design art and architecture internet archive. All of them are grouped under the heading of working with ideas as form or rather, metaphorically condensing ideas into form, employing mathematical principles, creating thought diagrams, or establishing rules for variations of colour. Casey reas process software 2, 2011 custom software, computer dimensions variable.
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