Casey Reas: links

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

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

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

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

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

The official Ultraconcentrated page traces Reas's work with broadcast signals, newspapers, social networks, density, and unstable legibility.

The official In Silico page documents the botanical datasets, GAN models, photographic history, technical images, and monumental 2025 prints.

Reas documents Caesuras as an identity built around interruption, recursion, wave interference, and unstable authorship.

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

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

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

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

Art Blocks' artist profile gathers Reas's biography and five projects in the foundational set.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

LACMA introduces METAVASARELY and An Empty Room as a two-part response to Vasarely's unrealised Art & Technology proposal.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Landmarks' artwork record connects the 2014 mural to Claude Shannon's 1948 paper and the founding history of information theory.

Feral File's institutional history documents a2p, the 2020 founding by Reas and Sean Moss-Pultz, and its exhibition milestones.

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

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

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

Unit London documents Wet and Saturated Process, which joined GAN-generated botanical imagery with wet-plate collodion photographs made with Erika Weitz.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Rhizome's conversation with Reas and Ben Fry examines Processing's design, community, and relationship to artistic practice.

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

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

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

ArtReview asks Reas how Feral File and software art should respond to the speculative rise and contraction of NFTs.

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

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

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

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

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

MOTZKO documents collected works by Reas, including There's No Distance, 923 Empty Rooms, and three works from the CENTURY family.

Bright Moments' launch film gathers Reas with Erick Calderon, Tyler Hobbs, Maya Man, Jeff Davis, Matt DesLauriers, and Seth Goldstein.

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

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