CASEY REAS
Casey REAS (a k a Casey Edwin Barker Reas, C. E. B. Reas) Born 1972 in Troy, Ohio. Lives and works in Los Angeles.
Casey Reas writes software to explore conditional systems 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. While dynamic, generative software remains his core medium, work in variable media including prints, objects, installations, and performances materialize from his visual systems.
Reas’ software, prints, and installations have been featured in over one hundred solo and group exhibitions at museums and galleries in the United States, Europe, and Asia. Recent venues include the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Art Institute of Chicago, and recent commissions have been awarded by the Whitney Museum of American Art and the New World Symphony in Miami. Reas’ work is in a range of private and public collections, including the Centre Georges Pompidou and the Victoria and Albert Museum.
Reas is a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles. He holds a master’s degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Media Arts and Sciences as well as a bachelor’s degree from the School 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.
Reas recently 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, a comprehensive introduction to programming within the context of visual media (MIT Press, 2007). 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’ Process Compendium 2004—2010 documents six years of his work exploring the phenomena of emergence through software.
Born in 1972 in Troy, Ohio. Casey Reas lives and works in Los Angeles, California.
EDUCATION
MA in Media Arts and Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
BA am College of Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning at the University of Cincinnati.
With Ben Fry, Reas initiated Processing in 2001.
SOLO AND DUO-EXHIBITIONS
2021
Alchemical, bitforms Gallery, New York, USA.
2019
Compressed Cinema, DAM GALLERY Berlin, Germany.
2018
Software Structures, Artport Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA.
2016
There’s No Distance, bitforms gallery, New York, USA.
2015
Tox Screen, Chronus Art Center, Shanghai, China.
Linear Perspective, Charlie James Gallery, Los Angeles, USA.
2014
Yes No, Pasadena City College, Pasadena, California, USA.
2013
ULTRACONCENTRATED, bitforms gallery, New York, USA.
2012
Century, DAM GALLERY Berlin, Germany.
Process, BCA Center, Burlington, USA.
2011
Think, IBM THINK at Lincoln Center, New York, USA.
2010
Compendium 2004-2010, DAM GALLERY Berlin, Germany.
2009
CODE and FORM: C.E.B. Reas & Marius Watz, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, USA.
Transfers and Actions: C.E.B. Reas and Ellie Harrison, Mejan Labs, Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Stockholm, Sweden.
2008
Process / Form, bitforms gallery, New York, USA.
2007
The Protean Image, TAG<>, The Hague, Netherlands.
2006
C.E.B. Reas and Suzung Kim, bitforms gallery, Seoul, South Korea.
2005
Natural, BANK Gallery, Los Angeles, USA.
Process / Drawing 2, DAM GALLERY Berlin, Germany.
Process / Drawing, bitforms gallery, New York, USA.
2004
TI, Telic Arts Exchange, Los Angeles, USA.
MicroImage, Art Brussels, Brussels, Belgium.
Articulate, DAM GALLERY Berlin, Germany.
2002
Casey Reas / Golan Levin, bitforms gallery, New York, USA.
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023
Beyond the Photographic: Heinz Hajek-Halke’s Light Graphic & New Pioneers, Chausee 36, Berlin, Germany
Co-Created: The Artist in the Age of Intelligent Machines, Burlington City Arts (BCA), Burlington, Vermont
A Leap into the Void. Art beyond Matter. GAMeC – Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Bergamo, Bergamo, Italy
2022
Unit London Take-Over. Nassima Landau Art Fooundation, Tel Aviv, Israel
Ex-Machina: A History of Generative Art. Phillip’s, London, UK
Mimèsis. Un disign vivant, Centre Pompidou-Metz, Metz, France
Cartography of the Mind, Christie’s, New York, NY, USA
SonarMàtica. Sónar, Barcelona, Spain
2021
AI Delivered: The Abject. Chronus Art Center (CAC), Shanghai, China
Tech/Know/Future: From Slang to Structure, George Segal Gallery, Montclair State University. Montclair, USA.
Proof of Art, Francisco Carolinum, Linz, Austria. 11 June – 15 September 2021.
Natively Digital: A Curated NFT Sale, Sotheby’s, 4 June – 10 June 2021, London, United Kingdom; New York, USA; Hong Kong, China.
2020
Design & the Wondrous: On the Nature of Ornament, Centre Pompidou x West Bund, Shanghai, China.
Compressed Cinema, Walker Art Center Virtual Cinema, Minneapolis, USA.
Thin as Thorns, In These Thoughts in Us: An Exhibition of Creative AI and Generative Art, Los Angeles, USA.
Silhouette Festival, Paris, France.
SUMMER SPLASH 6, DAM Berlin, Germany.
Immaterial/Re-material: A Brief History of Computing Art. UCCA Center for Contemporary Art. Beijing, China.
GANLand, DAM Berlin, Germany.
2019
Print Screen Unseen. The Israeli Center for Digital Art. Holon, Israel.
What a Wonderful World. La Fondazione Palazzo Magnani Reggio Emilia. Reggio Emilia, Italy.
Super Mosaic. Lei Shing Hong Art Center. Beijing, China.
Illusionary Nature. Museum Sinclair-Haus. Bad Homburg vor der Höhe, Germany.
Augmenting Creativity. Nanjing University. Nanjing, China.
With A Little Help From My Friends. Charlie James Gallery. Los Angeles, USA.
Latent See. Anteism. Montreal, Canada.
Automat und Mensch. Kate Vass Galerie. Zürich, Switzerland.
Sim-Cinema. WEVR. Los Angeles, USA.
New Technologies, New Visions. Los Angeles Art Book Fair, Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA.) Los Angeles, USA.
bitforms gallery LA. ROW DTLA. Los Angeles, USA.
2018
Chance and Control: Art in the Age of Computers, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK.
Coding the World, Mutations/Créations #2, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France.
MIS (MISSING) INFORMATION, Charlie James Gallery, Los Angeles, USA.
Summer Splash 4, DAM GALLERY Berlin, Germany.
Watch Your Bubble, Galerie Nord – Kunstverein Tiergarten, Berlin, Germany.
2016
DATAstream, Miles C. Horton Jr. Gallery, Blacksburg, USA.
CODE and NOISE, El Museo Cultural De Santa Fe, Santa Fe, Mexico.
DIGITRA, Treviso Ricerca Arte, Treviso, Italy.
CODE + POETRY, DAM Gallery Berlin, Germany.
2015
Day for Night, Silver Street Studios, Houston, USA.
Short Cuts, CentrePasquArt, Biel, Switzerland.
Istanbul Light Festival, Zorlu Center, Istanbul, Turkey.
The Dematerialized Auction: A Fluxus Fundraiser for George, New York, USA.
AESTHETICA, DAM Gallery Berlin, Germany.
2014
ARTMIX, Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Boulder, USA.
NYC Makers: The MAD Biennial, Museum of Arts and Design, New York, USA (a collaboration with Aranda\Lasch).
EXEMPLARY, 150 years of the MAK, From Arts and Crafts to Design, MAK, Vienna, Austria.
Summer Splash 3, DAM GALLERY Berlin, Germany.
//the ART_of_DATA, Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Boulder, Colorado, USA.
Coding the Body, apex art, New York, US (Collaboration with Cait Reas).
Presentism: Light as Material, Young Projects, Los Angeles, California, USA.
2013
Shifting Paradigms of Identity, Kent State University Museum, Kent, USA.
Autonomous, Gallery@Calit2, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, USA.
ArchiLab, FRAC Centre, Orléans, France.
Poetic Mathematical Rhymes, Boston Cyberarts Gallery, Boston, USA.
void loop, Antenna Gallery, New Orleans, USA.
//the_ART_of_DATA, The Resnick Gallery, Aspen, USA.
A New Sculpturalism, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, USA.
Run Computer Run: Examining Aesthetics, Rua Red, Dublin, Ireland.
Click, Helsingør, Denmark.
Back to Back, DAM GALLERY Frankfurt, Germany.
Decenter, Abrons Art Center, New York.
Poetic Codings, Fellows of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles and Boston Cyberarts Gallery.
Infinity +1, part 1, Arena 1 Gallery, Santa Monica, USA.
2012
AI Plus, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taiwan.
Microwave International Media Art Festival, Hong Kong, China.
Field Conditions, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, USA.
Multiversités Créatives, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France.
World on a Wire, bitforms gallery, New York, USA.
Rethinking Typologies, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, USA.
Random Access: Data as Art, Montserrat Gallery, Montserrat College of Art, Beverly, USA.
The Creators Project, Fort Mason, San Francisco, USA.
Codings, The Pace Digital Gallery, New York, USA.
2011
Expect Big Delay, 405 Freeway, Los Angeles, USA.
Think Line 2, DAM GALLERY Berlin, Germany, USA.
Seeing/Knowing, Graham Gund Gallery, Kenyon College, Gambier, USA.
Deep Surface, CAM Raleigh, Raleigh, USA.
Ornamental Structures, Stadtgalerie Saarbrücken, Saarbrücken, Germany.
File Type, Gallery 400, Chicago, USA.
2010
Hyperlinks: Architecture and Design, Art Institute of Chicago, USA.
Quotidian Architectures, 12th International Architecture Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia, Hong Kong Pavillion, Venice, Italy, USA.
Machinic Processes, Architecture Biennial Beijing 2010, Beijing, China.
Swarm Intelligence: Architectures of Multi-Agent Systems, University of Hong Kong, Faculty of Architecture, Shanghai Study Centre, Shanghai, China.
Immuring, SCI-Arc Gallery, Los Angeles, USA.
E-volve, DAM GALLERY Cologne, Germany.
When Process Becomes Paradigm, LABoral, Gijon, Spain.
Code: Craft, Millenium Gallery, Sheffield, UK.
2009
Decode: Digital Design Sensations, Victoria & Albert Museum, Porter Gallery, London, UK (afterwards: Museum of CAFA, Beijing; The Garage Center for Contemporary Culture, Moskow; Design Museum Holon, Israel).
Vida_Orige, Museu del Montsià, Amposta, Spain.
Collider: Interactivity and New Media, Emily Davis Gallery, Myers School of Art, Akron, USA.
OPEN, Gray Area Foundation for the Arts, San Francisco, USA.
HelloWorld.show(), CreateHere, Chattanooga, USA.
Art and Electronic Media, bitforms gallery, New York, USA.
Incognito 2009, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, USA.
Loops, MIT Museum, Cambridge, USA.
Abstract Cinema, Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, USA.
I’ll be your mirror, BANK gallery, Los Angeles, USA.
Scalable Relations, Beall Center for Art + Technology, Irvine, USA.
2008
Algorithms, Block Museum, Northwestern University, Evanston, USA.
Imaging by Numbers, Block Museum, Northwestern University, Evanston, USA.
Design Life Now: National Design Triennial, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, USA.
TI, 5th Seoul International Media Art Biennale, Seoul, South Korea.
Matters of Sensations, 07 MASSES (a collaboration with davidcolvers), Artists Space, New York, USA.
2007
Ars Electronica, Shanghai eArts Festival 2007, Shanghai, China.
Tissue Collection, Concrete Image Store, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Ephemeral: Explorations in Light, Claremont Museum of Art, Claremont, USA.
Scriptedbypurpose, FUEL Collection, Philadelphia, USA.
Design Life Now: National Design Triennial, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, USA.
Ephemeral: Explorations in Light, Claremont Museum of Art, Claremont, USA.
2006
Design Life Now: National Design Triennial, Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, New York, USA.
Cybernetic Sensibility, Daelim Museum, Seoul, South Korea.
Further Processing, Kunstverein MEDIENTURM, Graz, Austria.
Interferenze, New Arts Festival, San Martino Valle Caudina, Italy.
Drawing / Painting / Sketching, CCCB, Barcelona, Spain.
Drawing Conclusions on the Wall, Chapman University, Orange, USA.
ARTEFACT, STUK, Leuven, Belgium.
Software Art Space, Decordova Museum, Lincoln, USA.
Faculty Exhibition, UCLA, Los Angeles, USA.
2005
Bioart, Gallery António Prates, Lisbon, Portugal.
SWARM, Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, USA.
Generator.x, National Museum for Art, Architecture and Design, Oslo, Norway.
Thick Works, Betty Rymer Gallery, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, USA.
Abstraction Now in White Noise, Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Melbourne, Australia.
Inaugural Exhibition, bitforms gallery, Seoul, South Korea.
SónarClub, Sónar, Barcelona, Spain.
8 Abstractions, Now, À La Carte Digital Art, Sónar, Barcelona, Spain.
Lines and Curves, LIMN Gallery, San Francisco, USA.
Fresh, Museum of Contemporary Art Auction 2005, Los Angeles, USA.
Generative X @ onedotzero, Institute for Contemporary Art, London, UK
Visions for Education, Benesse Square, Okayama, Japan.
Rhizome ArtBase 101, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, USA.
Beecher Center, Youngstown, USA.
05 TDC Exhibition, Ginza Graphics Gallery, Tokyo, Japan.
Exit Festival, Créteil, France.
Exposition Inventeurs! Via Festival International, Maubeuge, France.
Artware3, Instituto Cultural Peruano Norteamericano, Lima, Peru.
2004
Art Life, Seeing Gallery, San Francisco Exploratorium, San Francisco, USA.
Touch and Temperature, Deborah Colton Gallery, Houston, USA.
Sonic Acts X, Paradiso, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
L´Espace temporel, Ars Electronica Festival 2005, Linz, Austria.
Digital Selections, Kendall College of Art and Design Gallery, Grand Rapids, USA.
Interact1, London College of Communication, London, UK.
NewSchool 9 Reactive/Creative, NTT ICC, Tokyo, Japan.
Algorithmic Revolution, ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany.
Microwave International Media Art Festival, Hong Kong, China.
Siggraph 2004 Art Gallery, Los Angeles, USA.
Runtime Art, Multimedia Institute, Zagreb, Croatia.
Touch and Temperature, bitforms gallery, New York, USA.
Artport, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA.
À La Carte Digital Art, Sónar, Barcelona, Spain.
Telic, Los Angeles, USA.
This is Today, Triennale, Palazzo dell’Arte, Milan, Italy.
Softwarekunst, DAM GALLERY Berlin & Transmediale 04. Berlin, Germany.
2003
Seven Wonders, Chromosome Gallery, Berlin, Germany.
Uijeongbu International Digital Art Festival, Seoul, South Korea.
Cluster, Mole Antonelliana, Turin, Italy.
CODE, Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria.
Abstraction Now, Künstlerhaus Wien, Vienna, Austria.
l’esperienza del domani, Interaction Design Institute Ivrea, Ivrea, Italy.
Danish Film Institute, Copenhagen, Denmark.
X/AniMate at REMOTE, New York.
Private Tundra, Los Angeles, USA.
2002
Amoda, Austin, USA.
Doublecell, Singlecell.org.
Translations/Transgressions, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, USA.
BIN, Shift.jp.org.
Remapping/Neural Networks, Artbrain.org.
Work in Progress, Interaction Design Institute Ivrea, Ivrea, Italy.
Collision, MIT, Cambridge, USA.
2001
bitforms Inaugural Group Show, bitforms gallery, New York, USA.
Singlecell, Singlecell.org.
Interaction ‘01, IAMAS, Ogaki, Japan.
Animations, P.S.1., New York, USA.
Workspheres, MoMA, New York, USA.
2000
New York Digital Salon, New York, USA.
Projects from the ACG, Cooper Union, New York, USA.
Print on Screen, Ars Electronica Center, Linz, Austria.
AWARDS
2018 Distinguished Teaching Award for Senate Faculty from the UCLA
2010 Exploratorium Osher Fellow
2009 The Icon 20/20
2008 Tribeca Film Institute Media Arts Fellowship
2005 Netizens Net Art Prize
2004 Prix Ars Electronica, Golden Nica for Processing.org along with Ben
PRESENTATIONS
2020
– Lumen Prize. Artist Talk, Brecon, UK. December 22, 2020.
– University of the Arts. Artist Talk. Bern, Switzerland. November 18, 2020.
– Maryland Institute College of Art. Remote. Artist Talk, Baltimore, MD, USA. September 22, 2020.
IFA Coonservation Center, New York University. Artist Talk, New York, NY, USA. June 12, 2020.
2019
– Cinemateca Bogotá. Compressed Cinema. Bogotá, Colombia. 7 November 2019.
– Woodbury University. Latent Cinema. Burbank, CA. 9 October 2019.
– University of Southern California. Artist Talk. Los Angeles, CA. 3 September 2019.
– University of Texas at Austin. Q&A with Casey Reas and Bob Sabiston. Austin, TX. 26 April 2019.
– CalArts. Artist Talk. Valencia, CA. 7 March 2019.
– California State University, Long Beach. Artist Talk. Long Beach, CA. 25 February 2019.
– Tulane University. Sandra Garrard Memorial Lecture. Earthly Delights. New Orleans, LA. 7 February 2019.
2018
– Left Field Labs. Artist Talk. Los Angeles, CA. 27 November 2018.
– Belief in AI: Designing Tomorrow’s Intelligence. Artist Talk. Dubai, United Arab Emirates. 12 November 2018.
– Future Tellers, Zorlu Performing Arts Center. Processing and F/L/O/S/S. Istanbul, Turkey. 19 October 2018.
– Anderson Ranch Arts Center. Artist Talk. Snowmass Village, CO. 1 July 2018.
– Eyeo Festival, Walker Art Center. The System Dreams. Minneapolis, MN. 7 June 2018.
– Central Academy of Fine Art. All-Over. Beijing, China. 31 May 2018.
– Make Room. On drawing, animation, and coding systems — Casey REAS and Jeffrey Alan Scudder in Conversation. Los Angeles, CA. 28 April 2018.
– bitforms gallery. Casey Reas and Jeffrey Alan Scudder in Conversation. New York, NY. 24 March 2018.
2017
– Cal Poly San Luis Obispo. Stochastic Confabulation. San Luis Obispo, CA. 2 November 2017.
– Processing Community Day. Processing Foundation. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Cambridge, MA. 21 October 2017.
– Center for Art, Science, and Technology. Processing. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Cambridge, MA. 21 April 2017. Collaboration with Ben Fry.
– UC San Diego, Department of Cognitive Science. Ultraconcentrated: Image, Media, Software. La Jolla, CA. 8 February 2017.
– Machines of Loving Grace. Soft Machines. UCLA, Department of Architecture and Urban Design (IDEAS). Los Angeles, CA. 11 March 2017.
2016
– Google SPAN. Artist Talk. Los Angeles, CA. 27 October 2016.
– Now Next Future. Artist Talk. UCLA Covel Commons. Los Angeles, CA. 28 October 2016.
– The European Graduate School. Studio Work. Saas-Fee, Switzerland. 4 July 2016.
– Arizona State University, School of Art. Artist Talk. Phoenix, AZ. 14 April 2016.
– Stanford, Department of Art and Art History. All-Over. Palo Alto, CA. 19 May 2016.
2015
– Google Research. Artist Talk. Seattle, WA. 24 September 2015.
– Anderson Ranch Arts Center. Artist Talk. Snowmass Village, CO. 4 August 2015.
– The European Graduate School. Artist Talk. Saas-Fee, Switzerland. 22 June 2015.
– Eyeo Festival, Walker Art Center. Stochastic Confabulation. Minneapolis, MN. June 2015.
– MOCAD. The thing that makes the thing is always more interesting than the thing. Detroit, MI. 14 March 2015.
– Penny Stamps Distinguished Speaker Series, University of Michigan. The thing that makes the thing is always more interesting than the thing.
– University of Oregon, Department of Art. Artist Talk. Eugene, OR. 26 February 2015.
– AIGA Boston. Future/History. Boston, MA. 29 January 2015. Collaboration with Ben Fry.
– Taliesin West. Artist Talk. Scottsdale, AZ. 8 January 2015.
2014
– University of Denver, Emergent Digital Practices. Processing. Denver, CO. 13 November 2014.
– University of Texas. A Mathematical Theory of Communication. Austin, TX. 10 October 2014. In collaboration with Christiane Paul.
– UCLA, Department of Architecture and Urban Design. Artists Talk. Los Angeles, CA. 16 July 2014
– UC San Diego, Visual Arts Department. Artist Talk. La Jolla, CA. 29 May 2014.
– Pasadena City College. Artist Talk. Pasadena, CA. 3 February 2014.
– Otis College of Art and Design, Department of Communication Arts. Artist Talk. Los Angeles CA. 27 February 2014
– Art, Technology, and Culture Lecture Series, UC Berkeley. Ultraconcentrated: Image, Media, Software. Berkeley, CA. 24 February 2014.
– University of San Francisco. Artist Talk. San Francisco, CA. 24 February 2014.
2013
– Eyeo Festival, Walker Art Center, The Soft Studio, Minneapolis, MN, 5–8 Jun 2013.
– Resonate, The Soft Studio, Belgrade, Serbia, 13 Mar 2013.
2012
– Mobile Processing, University of Illinois at Chicago.
– Processing 2.0, Chicago, IL, 3 Nov 2012.
– Bartlett School of Architecture, The Eye of the Needle, London, UK, 26 Sep 2012, https://vimeo.com/channels/399427/50298406.
– Eyeo Festival, Walker Art Center, Chance Operations, Minneapolis, MN, 7 Jun 2012, https://vimeo.com/45851523.
– Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Artist Talk, Snowmass Village, CO, 7 August 2012.
– Intel, Compendium+, Processing 2.0, Portland, OR, 11 May 2012.
– Virginia Tech, Compendium+, Blacksburg, VA, 18 April 2012.
– Champlain College, Artist Talk, Burlingon, VT, 23 March 2012.
– The Creators Project, Compendium+, San Francisco, CA, 17-18 Mar 2012.
– Yale School of Architecture, Conditional Drawing, New Haven, CT, 11 Feb 2012, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ok2pLb4oxV4.
2011
– LaVa (Los Angeles Video Artists), Artist Talk, Los Angeles, CA, 13 Dec 2011.
– Exploratorium, Artist Talk, San Francisco, CA, 2 Aug 2011.
– Eyeo Festival, Compendium+, Minneapolis, MN, 28 June 2011.
– Eyeo Festival, Processing 2.0, Minneapolis, MN, 27 June 2011, with Ben Fry.
– El Camino College, Compendium+, Torrance, CA, 30 September 2011.
– Art as a Way of Knowing, The City Club of San Francisco, The History of the Future, Art and Technology 1965 – 1971, San Francisco, CA, 3 March 2011, organized by the Exploratorium, funded by NSF.
– CalArts Graphic Design MFA, Artist Talk, Valencia, CA, 11 April 2011.
– University of California, Santa Barbara, Process(ing), Santa Barbara, CA, 18 May 2011.
– Princeton University, Designing Programs, Princeton, NJ, 13 April 2011, with Ben Fry.
– TTI Vanguard, Design as Strategy, Creative Coding, a Future for Design, Los Angeles, CA, 23-24 February 2011.
2010
– Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Artist Talk, Snowmass, CO, 30 November 2010.
– Media Design Program, Art Center, Artist Talk, Los Angeles, CA, 19 November 2010.
– Graduate Art Program, Art Center, FORM+CODE, Los Angeles, CA, 9 November 2010, with Chandler McWilliams.
– Map Marathon, Royal Geographical Society, Process Compendium, London, 17 Oct 2010, https://vimeo.com/22955812.
– University of Illinois at Chicago, Coding with Processing as a Design Practice, 2 Oct 2010.
– Information Visualization: Mixed Taste, Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Snowmass, CO, 31 Jul 2010. Mixed Tastes events are tagteam lectures on diverse topics; this presentation was data visualization and fly tying (fishing lures).
– Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Artist Talk, Snowmass, CO, 27 July 2010.
– Design Dialogues Fall 2010: Computation After New Media, Art Center College of Design, Coding (with Processing) as a Design Practice, Pasadena, California, 19 Nov 2010.
– Critical Code Studies, University of Southern California, 10 PRINT, 15 July 2010, presented with Nick Montfort and Jeremy Douglass.
– Decoding the Digital, Victoria and Albert Museum, Artist Talk, London, UK, 5 Feb 2010.
COMMISSIONS
– METAVERSARELY. Online at https://lacma.org/metavasarely
– Sketch Machine. Drawing and animation software commission from GIPHY Arts. Online at https://sketchmachine.net.
– Impure Functions. Installation at the Day for Night 2017 festival in Houston, Texas. In collaboration with Chandler McWilliams, Lauren McCarthy and the UCLA Arts Conditional Studio.
– Warm Up. Installation created for UCLA Arts The Opening 2017 – 2018. In collaboration with Chandler McWilliams, Aaron Koblin, Matthew Miller. Code online at https://github.com/uclaconditional/warm-up.
– ‘The System Only Dreams in Total Darkness,’ ‘Guilty Party,’ ‘Carin at the Liquor Store,’ ‘Day I Die,’ ‘Walk It Back,’ ‘Sleep Well Beast.’ Videos commissioned by The National for Sleep Well Beast. Released June 2017 – January 2018.
– KNBC. Silver Street Studios. Houston, TX. 19 – 20 December 2015. Commissioned by the Day for Night Festival.
– One-point Perspective. Covington & Burling LLP. Washington, D.C. Opened 8 December 2014. Commissioned for a new building, this software mural is displayed on a thirty-six panel main screen with six peripheral screens.
– A Mathematical Theory of Communication. University of Texas. Austin, TX. Opened 10 October 2014. Printed mural commissioned by the Computer Science department as a part of the University’s Landmarks program. There is a Sol LeWitt wall drawing in the building and a sculpture in the courtyard. The Landmarks collection contains work ranging from Antoine Pevsner to James Turrell.
– Casey Reas Loves Los Angeles, a commission for the Textile Room by P-A-T-T-E-R-N-S and North Sails for the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA.) Exhibited at MOCA 16 June – 16 September 2013.
– Mistaken for Strangers. Software and video for The National’s Mistaken for Strangers tour. The work was created for the song Squalor Victoria.
– Field Guide Poster Series for The Machine Project Field Guide to L.A. Architecture. Created a silkscreen print for a set of ten prints that feature architectural sites in Los Angeles.
– Fragrant World. Live visual media and stage development for Yeasayer’s 2012 tour. Commissioned by The Creators Project. In collaboration with Aranda\Lasch, Nick Gould, and Yoshi Sodeoka
http://youtu.be/HYOBgS7QeHk.
– THINK. Led a team in developing generative images for the IBM THINK installation at Lincoln Center. Collaborated with IBM scientists, Mirada and Motion Theory creative directors and designers, and SYPartners art directors to develop five data stories and visualizations for a 123′ × 11′ LED wall. 23 September – 23 October 2011.
– Signals. Commissioned mural for building 76 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In collaboration with Ben Fry. Premiered February 2011.
– Maharam Digital Projects. Created and licensed five large format images (10′ × 16′ 8″) for the textile manufacturer Maharam.
– Chronograph. Site-specific software mural for the Frank Gehry-designed home of the New World Symphony in Miami. In collaboration with Tal Rosner. Premiered January 2011.
– Whitney Museum Gala 2010. A software installation for the 2010 Whitney Gala. Live software images were projected onto sixteen two-sided panels suspended from the ceiling of the museum’s third floor.
– {Software} Structures. Software and text about Sol LeWitt for the Whitney Museum of American Art’s ArtPort. Published 2003, restored in 2016.
CASEY REAS | CONJURED TERRAIN, DAM Projects Berlin, September 5 – September 23, 2023
VERA MOLNAR | MACHINE IMAGINAIRE, DAM Berlin, January 18 – April 01, 2023
RAWWAR, DAM Berlin, May 06 – June 25, 2022
SUMMER SPLASH 6, DAM Berlin, July 15 – August 15, 2020
GANLand, DAM Berlin, February 01 – March 21, 2020
COMPRESSED CINEMA, DAM Berlin, March 23 – May 04, 2019
SUMMER SPLASH 4, DAM Berlin, June 23 – July 31, 2018
CODE + POETRY, DAM Berlin, April 08 – June 04, 2016
AESTHETICA, DAM Berlin, May 29 – August 01, 2015
SUMMER SPLASH 3, DAM Berlin, June 14 – August 02, 2014
NO MESSAGE WHATSOEVER: FRIEDER NAKE & FRIENDS, DAM Berlin, November 16, 2013 – January 25, 2014
BACK TO BACK, DAM Frankfurt, February 20 – May 04, 2013
CENTURY, DAM Berlin, September 29 – November 27, 2012
THINK LINE 2, DAM Berlin, November 16, 2011 – January 14, 2012
COMPENDIUM 2004-2010, DAM Berlin, September 11 – November 03, 2010
E-VOLVE, DAM Cologne, April 24 – June 24, 2010
PROCESS/DRAWING, DAM Berlin, October 02 – November 23, 2005
ARTICULATE, DAM Berlin, January 30 – February 04, 2004