Casey Reas: links
A source ledger for the artist, educator, and institution builder whose work joins the history of systematic art to Processing, long-form generative editions, and the preservation of living software.
Artist, studio, and works
Reas's official home page indexes current works, texts, exhibitions, publications, and biographical material.
Casey Reas ↗The official information page documents Reas's biography, teaching, museum collections, commissions, and representation.
Information ↗The exhibition archive lists solo and group presentations across museums, galleries, festivals, and digital platforms.
Exhibitions ↗Reas's blockchain-art index records projects across Art Blocks, Feral File, fxhash, and other platforms.
Blockchain works ↗The official CENTURY page traces the work from 2012 through Art Blocks and its dialogue with Kelly, Rickey, Bill, and Soto.
CENTURY ↗The official Process archive presents the instructions, software, prints, and installations foundational to Reas's practice.
Process ↗The official Phototaxis page explains its Braitenberg-inspired machines, movement histories, lights, and interactive controls.
Phototaxis ↗Reas's technical notes trace Phototaxis from 2001 C++ code through Processing to its 2021 p5.js long-form edition.
Notes on Phototaxis ↗The books archive records Reas's monographs and collaborative publications on process, form, code, and software culture.
Books ↗In the AB[500]: Art Blocks
Art Blocks' artist profile gathers Reas's biography and five projects in the foundational set.
Casey Reas on Art Blocks ↗CENTURY presents 1,000 executable works released in the Curated programme on 25 June 2021.
CENTURY ↗Phototaxis presents 1,000 behavioural simulations released in Playground on 21 September 2021.
Phototaxis ↗CENTURY 2052 documents the 50-work gift and its programmed transition from life to death in 2052.
CENTURY 2052 ↗Pre-Process presents all 120 significant permutations of a system whose roots reach to 2003.
Pre-Process ↗923 Empty Rooms records the 924-edition Art Blocks and Bright Moments collaboration released in August 2023.
923 Empty Rooms ↗Jeff Davis interviews Reas on childhood drawing, MIT, Processing, software art, and CENTURY's artistic precedents.
In Conversation on CENTURY ↗Art Blocks' Pre-Process interview details the Process Compendium, 100 Elements, combinatorial structure, and historical sources.
In Conversation on Pre-Process ↗The Playground archive situates Phototaxis within Art Blocks' programme for Curated artists to extend their practice.
Art Blocks Playground ↗The Collaborations archive provides programme context for the Bright Moments partnership behind 923 Empty Rooms.
Art Blocks Collaborations ↗Processing and education
Processing's overview explains the software-sketchbook model, open-source history, visual literacy mission, and MIT origins.
Processing overview ↗The project leadership page documents Reas and Ben Fry's 2001 founding, the Processing Foundation, and leadership succession.
Processing people ↗The official tutorial explains Processing as an environment for visual applications, animation, interaction, and rapid code sketches.
Processing tutorial overview ↗The Processing Foundation describes its mission to expand access to software literacy in the visual arts.
Processing Foundation ↗UCLA's faculty profile documents Reas's teaching, research, awards, exhibitions, and institutional roles.
Casey Reas at UCLA ↗UCLA Newsroom profiles Reas's relation between instructions, code, process, and visual form.
Art by numbers ↗A later UCLA profile covers Reas's work bridging software, art, open-source community, and pedagogy.
Bridging the gap between art and code ↗Museums and institutions
The Whitney archive documents Software Structures, its Sol LeWitt basis, three textual structures, and twenty-six implementations.
Software Structures ↗The Whitney's restored project text preserves Reas's structures, invited implementations, and curatorial framing.
Software Structures project text ↗A Whitney audio guide places Reas's software practice within the museum's collection and digital-art programme.
Casey Reas audio ↗LACMA introduces METAVASARELY and An Empty Room as a two-part response to Vasarely's unrealised Art & Technology proposal.
METAVASARELY and An Empty Room ↗SFMOMA's artist page records Reas's works and institutional collection history.
Casey Reas at SFMOMA ↗SFMOMA's Field Conditions archive places Reas in an exhibition on rule-based and process-driven drawing.
Field Conditions ↗Centre Pompidou's authority record indexes Reas's works in the national collection.
Casey Reas at Centre Pompidou ↗The Pompidou collection record documents Process 8 as a software-based work acquired by the museum.
Process 8 ↗The Toledo Museum of Art records CENTURY #470 in its collection of algorithmic art.
CENTURY #470 ↗Landmarks at the University of Texas documents Reas's wall-scale A Mathematical Theory of Communication commission.
Casey Reas at Landmarks ↗Feral File and exhibition infrastructure
Feral File's institutional history documents a2p, the 2020 founding by Reas and Sean Moss-Pultz, and its exhibition milestones.
About Feral File ↗Feral File's artist profile gathers Reas's biography, works, exhibitions, publications, and curatorial activity.
Casey Reas on Feral File ↗The retrospective archive reconstructs a2p and Feral File's early exhibition programme through works and participant records.
Feral File retrospective ↗DAM Museum's profile examines Reas's founding and curatorial role at Feral File.
Casey Reas and Feral File ↗Galleries and exhibitions
bitforms' A Generative Movement places Reas among artists working across historic and contemporary computational practices.
A Generative Movement ↗The exhibition catalogue supplies images, artist texts, and historical framing for A Generative Movement.
A Generative Movement catalogue ↗The bitforms release for It Doesn't Exist documents Reas's software, moving-image, and simulation practice.
It Doesn't Exist ↗The gallery release for There's No Distance records an earlier solo presentation of Reas's generative works.
There's No Distance ↗Interviews and conversations
Layer interviews Reas on systems, emergence, screens, digital material, editions, and the history of his practice.
Interview with Casey Reas ↗OpenSea's Marfa conversation covers Processing, creative coding, 923 Empty Rooms, and art's algorithmic histories.
Live From Marfa ↗Right Click Save joins Reas and Lauren Lee McCarthy on Processing, social software, LACMA, and 923 Empty Rooms.
The Power of Processing ↗Rhizome's conversation with Reas and Ben Fry examines Processing's design, community, and relationship to artistic practice.
Interview with Casey Reas and Ben Fry ↗Studio International interviews Reas on learning code, generative systems, the moving image, and the computer-art field.
Casey Reas interview ↗Archetype's conversation surveys Reas's development from Processing and early software works to blockchain distribution.
In Conversation with Casey Reas ↗Kaloh's podcast covers 923 Empty Rooms, Processing, Feral File, education, collecting, and exhibition plans.
Pioneering computational art ↗Press, criticism, and profiles
ArtReview asks Reas how Feral File and software art should respond to the speculative rise and contraction of NFTs.
Casey Reas and art after the crypto crash ↗Decrypt profiles Reas's career and the six-city launch of 923 Empty Rooms.
The Godfather of Generative Art Goes Global ↗Le Random's artist archive provides a biographical overview, selected works, collection records, and market context.
Casey Reas at Le Random ↗Layer's essay situates Reas's work through emergence, composure, systems, and changing digital form.
A Composure in Emergence ↗Rhizome reviews Form+Code, the Reas and Chandler McWilliams book on computational methods across art and design.
Code Crossings ↗The Artnet NFT 30 issue profiles Reas among artists shaping blockchain art's early institutional and market history.
The Artnet NFT 30 ↗MOTZKO documents collected works by Reas, including There's No Distance, 923 Empty Rooms, and three works from the CENTURY family.
Casey Reas at MOTZKO ↗Video
Bright Moments' launch film gathers Reas with Erick Calderon, Tyler Hobbs, Maya Man, Jeff Davis, Matt DesLauriers, and Seth Goldstein.
923 Empty Rooms by Casey Reas ↗The Bright Moments interactive archive enables viewers to explore the colourforms and combinatorial structure of 923 Empty Rooms.
923 Empty Rooms interactive ↗