AB[500] · Artist bibliography

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.

60 sources · last updated 31 July 2026

Artist, studio, and works

Reas's official home page indexes current works, texts, exhibitions, publications, and biographical material.

Casey Reas ↗ artist site

The official information page documents Reas's biography, teaching, museum collections, commissions, and representation.

Information ↗ artist biography

The exhibition archive lists solo and group presentations across museums, galleries, festivals, and digital platforms.

Exhibitions ↗ artist archive

Reas's blockchain-art index records projects across Art Blocks, Feral File, fxhash, and other platforms.

Blockchain works ↗ artist archive

The official CENTURY page traces the work from 2012 through Art Blocks and its dialogue with Kelly, Rickey, Bill, and Soto.

CENTURY ↗ artist project

The official Process archive presents the instructions, software, prints, and installations foundational to Reas's practice.

Process ↗ artist project

The official Phototaxis page explains its Braitenberg-inspired machines, movement histories, lights, and interactive controls.

Phototaxis ↗ artist project

Reas's technical notes trace Phototaxis from 2001 C++ code through Processing to its 2021 p5.js long-form edition.

Notes on Phototaxis ↗ artist text · 2021

The books archive records Reas's monographs and collaborative publications on process, form, code, and software culture.

Books ↗ artist archive

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 ↗ artist profile

CENTURY presents 1,000 executable works released in the Curated programme on 25 June 2021.

CENTURY ↗ collection · 2021

Phototaxis presents 1,000 behavioural simulations released in Playground on 21 September 2021.

Phototaxis ↗ collection · 2021

CENTURY 2052 documents the 50-work gift and its programmed transition from life to death in 2052.

CENTURY 2052 ↗ collection · 2022

Pre-Process presents all 120 significant permutations of a system whose roots reach to 2003.

Pre-Process ↗ collection · 2022

923 Empty Rooms records the 924-edition Art Blocks and Bright Moments collaboration released in August 2023.

923 Empty Rooms ↗ collection · 2023

Jeff Davis interviews Reas on childhood drawing, MIT, Processing, software art, and CENTURY's artistic precedents.

In Conversation on CENTURY ↗ interview · 2021

Art Blocks' Pre-Process interview details the Process Compendium, 100 Elements, combinatorial structure, and historical sources.

In Conversation on Pre-Process ↗ interview · 2022

The Playground archive situates Phototaxis within Art Blocks' programme for Curated artists to extend their practice.

Art Blocks Playground ↗ platform archive

The Collaborations archive provides programme context for the Bright Moments partnership behind 923 Empty Rooms.

Art Blocks Collaborations ↗ platform archive

Processing and education

Processing's overview explains the software-sketchbook model, open-source history, visual literacy mission, and MIT origins.

Processing overview ↗ official history

The project leadership page documents Reas and Ben Fry's 2001 founding, the Processing Foundation, and leadership succession.

Processing people ↗ official record

The official tutorial explains Processing as an environment for visual applications, animation, interaction, and rapid code sketches.

Processing tutorial overview ↗ documentation

The Processing Foundation describes its mission to expand access to software literacy in the visual arts.

Processing Foundation ↗ institution

UCLA's faculty profile documents Reas's teaching, research, awards, exhibitions, and institutional roles.

Casey Reas at UCLA ↗ university profile

UCLA Newsroom profiles Reas's relation between instructions, code, process, and visual form.

Art by numbers ↗ university profile · 2013

A later UCLA profile covers Reas's work bridging software, art, open-source community, and pedagogy.

Bridging the gap between art and code ↗ university profile

Museums and institutions

The Whitney archive documents Software Structures, its Sol LeWitt basis, three textual structures, and twenty-six implementations.

Software Structures ↗ museum commission · 2004/2016

The Whitney's restored project text preserves Reas's structures, invited implementations, and curatorial framing.

Software Structures project text ↗ museum archive

A Whitney audio guide places Reas's software practice within the museum's collection and digital-art programme.

Casey Reas audio ↗ museum 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 ↗ museum commission · 2023

SFMOMA's artist page records Reas's works and institutional collection history.

Casey Reas at SFMOMA ↗ museum collection

SFMOMA's Field Conditions archive places Reas in an exhibition on rule-based and process-driven drawing.

Field Conditions ↗ museum exhibition · 2012

Centre Pompidou's authority record indexes Reas's works in the national collection.

Casey Reas at Centre Pompidou ↗ museum profile

The Pompidou collection record documents Process 8 as a software-based work acquired by the museum.

Process 8 ↗ museum collection

The Toledo Museum of Art records CENTURY #470 in its collection of algorithmic art.

CENTURY #470 ↗ museum collection

Landmarks at the University of Texas documents Reas's wall-scale A Mathematical Theory of Communication commission.

Casey Reas at Landmarks ↗ public collection

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 ↗ institutional history

Feral File's artist profile gathers Reas's biography, works, exhibitions, publications, and curatorial activity.

Casey Reas on Feral File ↗ artist profile

The retrospective archive reconstructs a2p and Feral File's early exhibition programme through works and participant records.

Feral File retrospective ↗ institutional archive

DAM Museum's profile examines Reas's founding and curatorial role at Feral File.

Casey Reas and Feral File ↗ institutional profile

Galleries and exhibitions

bitforms' A Generative Movement places Reas among artists working across historic and contemporary computational practices.

A Generative Movement ↗ gallery exhibition

The exhibition catalogue supplies images, artist texts, and historical framing for A Generative Movement.

A Generative Movement catalogue ↗ gallery catalogue · PDF

The bitforms release for It Doesn't Exist documents Reas's software, moving-image, and simulation practice.

It Doesn't Exist ↗ gallery press release · PDF

The gallery release for There's No Distance records an earlier solo presentation of Reas's generative works.

There's No Distance ↗ gallery press release · PDF

Interviews and conversations

Layer interviews Reas on systems, emergence, screens, digital material, editions, and the history of his practice.

Interview with Casey Reas ↗ interview

OpenSea's Marfa conversation covers Processing, creative coding, 923 Empty Rooms, and art's algorithmic histories.

Live From Marfa ↗ interview · 2026

Right Click Save joins Reas and Lauren Lee McCarthy on Processing, social software, LACMA, and 923 Empty Rooms.

The Power of Processing ↗ interview · 2023

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 ↗ interview · 2009

Studio International interviews Reas on learning code, generative systems, the moving image, and the computer-art field.

Casey Reas interview ↗ interview

Archetype's conversation surveys Reas's development from Processing and early software works to blockchain distribution.

In Conversation with Casey Reas ↗ interview

Kaloh's podcast covers 923 Empty Rooms, Processing, Feral File, education, collecting, and exhibition plans.

Pioneering computational art ↗ podcast · 2023

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 ↗ interview and criticism

Decrypt profiles Reas's career and the six-city launch of 923 Empty Rooms.

The Godfather of Generative Art Goes Global ↗ profile · 2023

Le Random's artist archive provides a biographical overview, selected works, collection records, and market context.

Casey Reas at Le Random ↗ archive profile

Layer's essay situates Reas's work through emergence, composure, systems, and changing digital form.

A Composure in Emergence ↗ critical essay

Rhizome reviews Form+Code, the Reas and Chandler McWilliams book on computational methods across art and design.

Code Crossings ↗ book review · 2010

The Artnet NFT 30 issue profiles Reas among artists shaping blockchain art's early institutional and market history.

The Artnet NFT 30 ↗ profile · 2021 · PDF

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 ↗ collection archive · ongoing

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 ↗ video · 2023

The Bright Moments interactive archive enables viewers to explore the colourforms and combinatorial structure of 923 Empty Rooms.

923 Empty Rooms interactive ↗ interactive archive